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Samsung’s SSD rival has just released one of the world’s fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs — no, it won’t beat Crucial’s superfast T705 but its no-frills approach means it’s likely to be much cheaper
Samsung’s big South Korean rival SK Hynix has launched its high-end PCB01 SSD, designed specifically for on-device AI PCs. This PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD boasts impressive sequential read and write speeds of 14GB and 12GB per second, respectively, coupled with 4K random read and write rates of 2 million IOPS.…
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Chinese MIPS rival to Intel and AMD set to launch a 128-core server CPU to compete in the busy market — EPYC and Xeon fans need not worry for now but do keep an eye on the NVLink-like tech
Despite US trade restrictions aimed at keeping advanced chips and chip-making equipment out of China, domestic semiconductor production continues to impress there. Loongson recently informed investors that the first samples of the Loongson 3C6000/3D6000/3E6000 series of server-grade processors had been successfully returned and are “meeting expectations”. In line with its…
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New tech promises to add terabytes of memory (or SSD storage) to any GPU — but there’s a big catch
KAIST startup Panmnesia (the name means “the power to remember absolutely everything one thinks, feels, encounters, and experiences”) claims to have developed a new approach to boosting GPU memory. The company’s breakthrough allows for the addition of terabyte-scale memory using cost-effective storage media such as NAND-based SSDs while maintaining reasonable…
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They did it again: Tech publisher keeps on breaking Pi Calculation World Record — they almost doubled the previous one, reaching 202 trillion digits in 100 days and used 1.5PB of SSD storage
Engineers at StorageReview have shattered their own world record by calculating pi to an astounding 202,112,290,000,000 digits, smashing its previous record of 105 trillion digits set earlier this year in time for World Pi Day (March 14 – 3/14). The previous record, the team’s second attempt, was achieved using a…
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‘Transformers would take over the world’: Little-known AI startup bet on ASICs — and claims it can trounce Nvidia’s flagship GPU, the B200, by almost 10 times
Back in 2022, before ChatGPT totally revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence, Etched decided to invest heavily in transformers. With this focus, the startup has developed Sohu, a specialized ASIC chip designed exclusively for transformer models, the architecture powering the likes of ChatGPT, Sora, and Gemini. Sohu is a one-trick…
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The US Army wants to use more AI in its everyday operations — but not for combat
The US Army wants to incorporate commercial private-sector AI algorithms into its operations in order to improve efficiency and productivity, but it’s clearly worried about the ongoing security risks associated with the technology. Speaking at the recent AWS Washington DC summit, Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army…
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