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‘Holy grail for memory tech’: New candidate for universal memory emerges in race to replace RAM and NAND — and this one doesn’t use a toxic compound
The current memory market, worth $165bn a year, is dominated by DRAM and NAND flash. The former is fast with excellent endurance but is volatile, requiring constant refreshing of data. The latter on the other hand, is non-volatile, retaining data when unpowered, but is slower and has poor program/erase cycling…
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Nvidia’s entry level GPU can handle 66 million pixels, enough to feed two 8K monitors — but it is its tiny 70W power consumption that will get jaws dropping
Nvidia has unveiled the RTX 2000 ADA Generation, a powerful yet energy-efficient addition to its workstation GPU lineup. As you can guess from the name, it’s built around Nvidia’s cutting-edge Ada Lovelace architecture, meaning users benefit from third-generation RT Cores, fourth-generation Tensor Cores, CUDA cores, and AV1 encoders. The seventh…
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AI set to face its day of reckoning as it confronts biggest threat yet — China and other countries want to slash exponential rise in data center power consumption
Governments worldwide are tightening regulations on the construction of data centers due to concerns over their enormous energy consumption and the impact on national climate goals and power grids. According to the Financial Times, countries including China, Singapore and Ireland have imposed restrictions on new data centers in recent years…
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One of Japan’s largest tech companies just launched its own cloud storage service — its main appeal is not its free 10GB storage but its unlimited transfer service
Japanese tech giant Rakuten Symphony has announced the full-scale commercial launch of its own cloud storage service in Japan. While the free 10GB storage it offers is reasonable, the real game-changer here is its unlimited file transfer service. Aimed at both individual and enterprise customers, Rakuten Drive allows users to…
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Rakuten Drive review
Japanese tech giant Rakuten Symphony has announced the full-scale commercial launch of its own cloud storage service in Japan. While the free 10GB storage it offers is reasonable, the real game-changer here is its unlimited file transfer service. Aimed at both individual and enterprise customers, Rakuten Drive allows users to…
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Some of the world’s biggest cloud computing firms want to make millions of servers last longer — doing so will save them billions of dollars every year
Some of the world’s largest cloud computing firms, including Alphabet, Amazon, and Cloudflare, have found a way to save billions by extending the lifespan of their servers – a move expected to significantly reduce depreciation costs, increase net income, and contribute to their bottom lines. Alphabet, Google‘s parent company, started…
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