Synopsys adds generative AI for chip development with Synopsys.ai Copilot design software

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Synopsys was among the first companies to integrate general AI capabilities into its electronic design automation (EDA) suite in 2021 – 2024, and by now hundreds, or even thousands of chips, have been designed using AI-enhanced tools . This week, Synopsys introduced a broad upgrade to its semiconductor design platform by embedding generative AI capabilities across its EDA offerings with the aim of shortening development cycles, improving engineer productivity, and enabling complex designs by understaffed teams.

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Expansion card lets you insert 512GB of extra DDR5 memory into your PCIe slot — CXL 2.0 AIC designed for TRX50 and W790 workstation motherboards

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Workstation motherboards already have access to an immense amount of memory. However, additional memory can often be beneficial. Gigabyte has introduced the AI Top CXL R5X4, a specialized add-in card (AIC) designed to further increase the memory capacity of the company's TRX50 AI Top and W790 AI Top motherboards.

The AI Top CXL R5X4 may initially be mistaken for an entry-level gaming graphics card if you don't catch

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Intel’s bitcoin-mining Blockscale chips return from the dead, being given away for free — 256,000 Intel Bonanza Mine ASICs donated by Jack Dorsey’s Block, will be distributed to DIYers and open-hardwa

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Remember Intel’s run at Bitcoin mining? In the span of a year that saw monkey JPEGs selling for six figures and Ethereum setting fire to GPUs, Intel quietly entered and exited the blockchain game. Its Blockcsale chips promised a clean, power-efficient future for Bitcoin mining. Then they vanished .

Now, those same chips are back. On September 2, nonprofit hardware collective 256 Foundation tweeted that it had received a delivery of 256,000 Intel BZM

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Anker brings beastly 14-port dock, plus new compact chargers and portable batteries to IFA

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Anker has long been a leader in innovative chargers and related accessories, and the company brought some of its newest devices to the IFA trade show in Berlin, including a dock, a beefy portable battery, and a surprisingly compact 160W charger, all a part of its high-end Prime lineup.

14-port Anker Prime Docking Station

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Jaguar Land Rover shuts down production due to ransomware attack — Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes responsibility

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Who seems more likely to win: a company born from the merger of two automotive manufacturers established in the 1930s and 1940s, or a cybercrime group composed of a bunch of teenagers who have been wreaking havoc on the tech industry since 2020?

That was a rhetorical question — the teenagers have already won. Liverpool Echo reported yesterday that Jaguar Land Rover "workers have been told to stay away from work until at least [Sept.

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Research team uses Wi-Fi to monitor heart rate accurately — relies on signal variations caused by beating heart to determine BPM

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A university research team developed a novel technique to measure heart rates using Wi-Fi.

According to the University of California, Santa Clara (UCSC), the team, which included Computer Science and Engineering Professor Katia Obraczka, Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia, and high school student and visiting researcher Pranay Kocheta, used a low-cost ESP32 chip and paired it with a machine learning algorithm to detect changes in the Wi-Fi signal caused by the heart. They then

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Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis

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It appears that Google is starting to hide its internal climate advocacy goals from the public eye. The internet titan has silently removed its goal to "pursue net-zero emissions" across all operations by 2030 from its Sustainability webpage, as first spotted by Canada's National Observer .

An update to Google Sustainability's "Operating sustainably" landing page, now renamed to "Our operations," has removed its first headline broadcasting Alphabet Inc.'s long-stated goal

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Nvidia signs $1.5 billion deal with cloud startup Lambda to rent back its own AI chips — 18,000 GPUs will be leased over 4 years, as Lambda gears up for its IPO

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Nvidia, the company powering essentially the entire AI boom, is now looking to rent back its own chips. According to The Information , Nvidia has now signed a deal with Lambda, a cloud service provider in which it has already invested, to lease back some of its own GPUs over a period of time.

The details of the purported agreement are unclear, but reports suggest a four-year lease for 10,000 GPUs, valued at approximately $1.3 billion

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Trump warns that he will soon announce ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs — chip companies investing in the US will be spared the brunt of the tariffs

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At the White House on September 4, President Trump said that his administration will “very shortly” impose a “fairly substantial” tariff on imported semiconductors from companies that are not making chips in the United States, adding that firms investing in domestic production would be spared from the levy.

“I’ve discussed it with the people here, chips and semiconductors, and we’ll be putting tariffs on companies that aren’t coming in,” Trump said.

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AI-powered PromptLocker ransomware is just an NYU research project — the code worked as a typical ransomware, selecting targets, exfiltrating selected data and encrypting volumes

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ESET said on Aug. 26 that it had discovered the first AI-powered ransomware , which it dubbed PromptLocker, in the wild. But it seems that wasn't the case: New York University (NYU) researchers have claimed responsibility for the malware ESET found.

It turns out PromptLocker is actually an experiment called "Ransomware 3.0" conducted by researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. A spokesperson for the school told Tom's Hardware a Ransomware 3.

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