The various recent partnerships involving OpenAI and Nvidia have been discussed at length by the entire internet as well as the stock market. Besides enhancing shareholder value, though, it's hard to say what the endgame goal of these large corporations is. The answer is a bit clearer after a CNBC interview , however, where OpenAI's President Greg Brockman talked up a future with agentic AI that works in your sleep, pointing out we'll need the 10 billion GPUs or
OpenAI President teases 10 billion GPU future — says always-working AI future calls for 'every person to have their own dedicated GPU'
Mobile RTX 2070 with shunt mod nearly eclipses desktop performance — 60W boost provides 15% performance uplift
A PC enthusiast reports successfully shunt modding his Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile GPU for a ~15% performance uplift. An uplift of this scale would bring the RTX 2070 Mobile roughly to performance parity with its desktop counterpart. PC Games Hardware forum member HerrBolsch says he pushed the mobile GPU through its power-limited ceiling of 115W, all the way to 175W (h/t PCGH.de News , machine translated).
EA acquired by Saudi Arabian investment fund and others for $55 billion — largest ever buyout of a public company
EA has announced that the gaming giant has been acquired by a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners to the tune of $55 billion.
In a press release, the company stated it has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by a consortium. The group, which includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, will acquire 100% of EA, with the PIF rolling over its existing 9.9% stake in the company. Shareholders
Amazon and Google tip off Jensen Huang before announcing information about their AI chips, says report — companies tread carefully to avoid surprising Nvidia
A new report claims that before Amazon or Google reveals anything about their latest artificial intelligence chips, they first notify Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The practice, touted by sources in The Information ’s recent report on Nvidia’s internal dealmaking , reflects the quiet reality of the AI hardware market: Nvidia is still the dominant supplier of training compute, and its customers are trying not to get cut off.
According to the report, Amazon and Google each provide advance notice to Huang before unveiling updates
Qualcomm’s 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme dominates in first benchmarks – 18 cores and 48GB of on-package memory on a 192-bit bus look tough to beat
Last week, Qualcomm announced its upcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips for laptops and compact desktops at its yearly summit in Maui. Some specs were revealed (the top-end Extreme model will pack 18 cores and a top clock speed of 5 GHz on two cores), and the company made lofty promises of up to 31% better performance while sipping 43% less power than its first-gen Snapdragon X silicon. But it didn
'Moscow military spy ship' tracked mapping and surveilling NATO undersea cables — 'She’s following cable lines and pipelines, making stops. We are monitoring her very closely
A new FT investigation has revealed how a Russian "military spy ship" has been tracked surveilling and mapping undersea cables along Europe's Atlantic coastline, possibly with nefarious purposes that could involve intercepting communications from NATO allies.
Undersea cables have become a hot-button topic of global infrastructure ever since a series of high-profile incidents that involved the cutting of cables relied upon by nations for global connectivity. Famously, a cable connecting Finland and Sweden to Europe was severed last year ,
EU pushes for Chips Act 2.0 investment as it looks set to miss global silicon production targets by a wide margin — seeks quadrupling of semiconductor investment as $50 billion initiative flounders
All the member nations of the EU have signed on to a Dutch-led coalition that wants to encourage additional investment in semiconductor manufacturing in the EU. This revision of the 2022 European Chips Act would see the EU pivot its plan to take over global production and instead target specific weaknesses in the EU's semiconductor strategies, as per Reuters .
The EU's Chips Act budgeted 43 billion euros ($50.4 billion) in semiconductor manufacturing
Legendary Sound Blaster 2.0 ISA card revived by hardware enthusiast — 1994 relic restored to former glory
Retrocomputing has never been as popular as in this decade, with folks old and young reliving the simplicity and straightforwardness of games and hardware of bygone eras. Retro hardware is ever scarcer to come by, and might need a little love and care. That's what Adrian's Digital Basement YouTube channel (Adrian) did by fixing up a Sound Blaster 2.0 card , one of home computing's groundbreaking pieces of gear.
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Famed gamer creates working 5 million parameter ChatGPT AI model in Minecraft, made with 439 million blocks — AI trained to hold conversations, working model runs inference in the game
A developer and enthusiast Minecrafter has showcased a project dubbed CraftGPT on GitHub . In an amazing feat of Minecraft Redstone engineering, Sammyuri — famed for building a 1Hz CPU inside the game — has built a small language model that runs on a computer inside Minecraft , trained on the TinyChat dataset. The CraftGPT project is hewn from 1,020 x 260 x 1,656 blocks in the game (439 million in total), and functions as advertised
TSMC says Intel didn’t ask for investments — denies existence of talks for partnership, joint venture
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) has denied engaging in talks with Intel regarding any sort of investment or partnership. According to the Taipei Times , the company disputed a recent Wall Street Journal report saying that Intel solicited a joint venture with the fab. The WSJ news, based on the publications' sources, also indicated that Intel was reaching out to Apple to explore ways in which these tech companies can collaborate. All this comes close on the heels of Nvidia buying $5 billion