Arm is a company that has existed on the periphery of wholesale dominance for decades. ARM intellectual property has been a part of over 90% of all mobile phones shipped since 2005, currently holding a market share of over 99%, boasting over 250 billion Arm chips shipped since the company's inception. The world’s fastest supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, Fugaku , also ran on ARM CPU cores. The world
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 now reigns as the fastest graphics card on the planet — for gaming and consumer use, at least — but it has encountered plenty of criticism due to its 16-pin power connectors, which seem to have a proclivity for melting. It also has a voracious power appetite and can generate tremendous short-lived spikes in power consumption that range up to nearly 700W, necessitating a clean and steady supply of power for
President Donald Trump has revealed that he will announce new tariffs on semiconductors next week. The U.S. President said during a CNBC interview, “We’re going to be announcing on semiconductors and chips, which is a separate category, because we want them made in the United States.”
This is likely to be bad news for Taiwan, which is home to TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer. The White House has currently imposed a 20
I know I've covered a deal on this gaming laptop previously, but now it's dropped a further $20 in price, and is still one of the best bang-for-buck choices for a gaming laptop. Not only can the Asus TUF Gaming A15 hold its own as a gaming machine, but it can also excel in a variety of productivity tasks, making it suitable for school/college work, and can even be used to play a few
In a continuing example of just how versatile some early computers were, a replica of an Apple 1 showed up at the Vintage Computer Festival West run by the Computer History Museum, upgraded with a modern Wi-Fi module, and running the latest instance of ChatGPT. Better yet, it was put together by original Apple employee and Macintosh legend, Daniel Kottke.
The Apple 1 was originally released in 1976 and featured a 1 MHz processor, just 4KB of memory,
The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested two Chinese nationals on a federal criminal complaint that alleges they exported AI GPUs worth tens of millions of dollars to China in exchange for cash. Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty, according to the DoJ .
As stated in the press release, the two alleged offenders have been charged with violating the Export
AMD on Tuesday published its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2025, posting revenue of $7.685 billion, which is its highest quarterly revenue ever. The company's results were driven by a significant uptick in client CPU sales and strong sales of its data center processors. But at the same time, the company's results were partially offset by the $800 million hit from Instinct MI308 GPU export
The PCI-SIG consortium has officially announced the development of the PCI Express 8.0 specification. This new version is set to double data transfer rate to 256 GT/s per lane. In addition to the extra bandwidth, PCIe Gen8 is said to feature protocol enhancements to increase real-world bandwidth and reduce power consumption.
The upcoming PCIe 8.0 specification will double the raw bit rate of PCIe 7.0 to 256.0 GT/
Huawei has greenlit a plan to open-source its CANN software toolkit for its Ascend AI GPUs. According to the South China Morning Post , Huawei is making this move in order to better compete against Nvidia and its closed-source CUDA software ecosystem.
Open-sourcing CANN, or Compute Architecture for Neural Networks, could further speed up developer innovation and improve the usability of Huawei's Ascend AI GPUs. Furthermore, Huawei has reportedly already held talks with China's leading AI players,