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AMD lands yet another major cloud deal as Oracle adopts thousands of Instinct MI300X GPUs to power new AI supercluster

AMD’s Instinct MI300X is an incredibly powerful AI accelerator, and major cloud companies are beginning to integrate it into their infrastructure to support intensive AI workloads. Vultr recently announced that it had ordered “thousands” of MI300X units, and now Oracle […]

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A virtual 128TB SSD running at 28GBps — HighPoint’s new all-in-one storage card will be a perfect fit for your AI workstation but, at $26,000, it won’t come cheap

HighPoint has announced the RocketAIC 7749M2, a PCIe Gen4 x16 AIC drive available in 64TB or 128TB configurations with pre-configured RAID storage. This solution is designed to fit into a compact form factor, similar in size to a high-end GPU,

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Only ‘limited by your imagination’: Gallium Nitride breakthrough could make LED displays more affordable and convert your smartphone screen into an antenna

Researchers at Cornell University, in collaboration with the Polish Academy of Sciences, have made a major breakthrough in semiconductor technology by developing the first-ever dual-sided chip – referred to as a “dualtronic” chip – that integrates both photonic and electronic

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Could AI finally bring an end to Reddit’s SEO dominance? Researchers correlate rise of ChatGPT with drop in knowledge sharing on public platforms

A recent study published in the PNAS Nexus journal suggests the rise of AI models like ChatGPT may be challenging the dominance of traditional knowledge-sharing sites like Reddit and the programming forum Stack Overflow. This shift could impact the availability

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This is the fastest portable SSD right now — OWC launches a Thunderbolt 5 solid state drive that can exceed 6GB/s, 2x faster than the next quickest external SSD

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced the release of its Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD, available for pre-order now. This new SSD is designed to take full advantage of Thunderbolt 5, offering speeds that exceed 6000MB/s, which the company claims

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Hardware startup wants to solve the multi billion dollar problem of bandwidth by using an ancient technique — AI memory compression technique could save Google, Microsoft billions but Nvidia won’t be happy

Swedish firm ZeroPoint Technologies, a spin-off from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, was founded by Professor Per Stenström and Dr. Angelos Arelakis with the goal of delivering efficient real-time memory compression across the entire memory system. The company seeks

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Makers rejoice! This mini PC has a rare expansion connector that no rival offers — 9-pin port is located on the front of Geekom device and could be useful for some great DIY projects

Mini PC makers are becoming increasingly inventive as they cater to the growing demand for compact yet powerful computing solutions. With consumers and businesses alike seeking more space-efficient devices without compromising performance, manufacturers are pushing boundaries in design and functionality.

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This AI tool can solve Google’s popular anti-spam defense every time — CAPTCHA system could soon become obsolete

A group of AI researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed an advanced tool that can solve Google’s CAPTCHA system with 100% accuracy, raising serious concerns about the future of CAPTCHA-based security. CAPTCHA, an acronym for “Completely Automated Public

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AMD scores big win with thousands of Instinct MI300x shipped to one of world’s largest privately held cloud computing platforms

AMD‘s Instinct MI300X is a beast of an AI accelerator – built on the company’s third-generation CDNA architecture and TSMC’s advanced 5nm and 6nm processes, it features 19,456 stream processors, 192GB of HBM3 memory, 304 compute units, 1,216 matrix cores,

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Wait, now Broadcom makes GPUs? Nvidia could face unexpected foe in China as ByteDance could use rival bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm to design its AI chips

US trade restrictions have created significant obstacles for Chinese companies, limiting their access to advanced AI hardware needed to remain competitive globally. Nvidia’s H20 GPUs, scaled-down versions of the powerful H100, were developed to meet export control requirements but still

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