Month: February 2024

“Perfect” memory that could one day replace three types of storage gets very early prototype — SOT-MRAM is cache, system memory and storage rolled into one

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced the creation of a SOT-MRAM (spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory) array chip, the result of a joint development program first announced in 2022. Touted as a potential replacement for STT-MRAM (spin-transfer-torque MRAM), the new SOT-MRAM could be…

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‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec

There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have…

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Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show

Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023. Source

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Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year

Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023. Source

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Google Photos preps new feature that’s like a photo and video diary for friends

Newly found code in Google Photos suggests the platform will soon introduce a weekly photo highlight reel known as My Week that can be shared with contacts.  Evidence of the upcoming feature was discovered by tech blog TheSpAndroid after diving deep into the files of Google Photos version 6.69. There,…

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Samsung’s arch-rival presents HBM3E memory chip that could power Nvidia’s Blackwell B100 AI GPU — with 16 layers, 48GB and 10.24Gbps transfer rate, this may well be the key to make ChatGPT 6 live

Samsung is set to showcase numerous new products at the forthcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), including a superfast DDR5 memory chip, 280 layer QLC NAND flash memory, and the the world’s fastest GDDR7.  But while Samsung will certainly draw a lot of attention, it’s not the only game in…

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