A US retailer has listed the Dev Kit featuring Qualcomm’s new PC processor, with estimated availability set for August 23. This isn’t an official launch of the first Mini-PC featuring the Snapdragon X Series; rather, it’s just the date when one retailer will start fulfilling preorders, which seemingly went live recently.
The Snapdragon Dev Kit is a Windows PC in a small form factor PC (measuring 20×17
Ampere is adding the new 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor to its roadmap, the company announced today. This new chip has custom Arm cores and a custom mesh and die-to-die interconnect. It also supports HBM memory and Ampere's next-gen AI acceleration blocks, but the company hasn't yet announced the specific launch timing.
Ampere also unveiled pricing for its AmpereOne M processors, with the flagship 192-core model weighing in at $5
In context: No one in the industry likes relying too heavily on Nvidia's products, although many companies feel they don't have a choice given that Team Green is the dominant supplier of AI chips. Apple, however, took a different path and appears to be pleased with the results: it opted for Google's TPUs to train its large language models. We know this because Cupertino released a research paper
What just happened? Team Red is firing on all cylinders with their latest " Strix Point " mobile processors launching this summer, representing a generational upgrade over last year's Phoenix chips. New images are out, and the most obvious change is the die size increase from 9.06mm x 15.01mm on Phoenix to 12.06mm x 18
Apple has revealed that it didn’t use Nvidia’s hardware accelerators to develop its recently revealed Apple Intelligence features. According to an official Apple research paper (PDF), it instead relied on Google TPUs to crunch the training data behind the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models.
Systems packing Google TPUv4 and TPUv5 chips were instrumental to the creation of the Apple Foundation Models (AFMs). These models, AFM-server and AFM-on-device models, were designed to power
