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First crack in Nvidia AI wall? Meta set to use own AI chips in its servers in 2024 — but it will still use Nvidia H100 GPUs as well in its datacenters for now
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, plans to deploy its own custom-designed artificial intelligence chips, codenamed Artemis, into its data centers this year, according to an internal document seen by Reuters. This move could potentially reduce Meta’s dependence on Nvidia‘s market dominant H100 chips and control the escalating costs…
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‘Instincts are massively cheaper than Nvidia’s H100’: AMD is selling flagship AI GPUs at a huge discount to Microsoft — but I’m not sure that will be enough to bother Nvidia
AMD‘s flagship AI GPUs, the Instincts, are being sold at a significant discount to Microsoft, offering a competitive alternative to Nvidia‘s pricier H100. According to Tom’s Hardware, Nvidia’s H100 AI GPUs cost up to four times more than AMD’s competing MI300X, with prices peaking beyond $40,000. Despite the price advantage,…
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Popular NAS vendor issues emergency patch against potentially highly damaging vulnerabilities — here’s what you need to know
NAS vendor QNAP Systems has urgently issued patches for no fewer than 24 vulnerabilities across its product range, including two high-severity flaws that could enable command execution. Despite the severity of these vulnerabilities, QNAP has not reported any instances of these bugs being exploited in the wild. The Taiwan-based firm’s move…
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Iconic monitor maker delivers superlight laptop that you can only buy in Japan — but it’s its 4-year warranty that makes iiyama’s ultrabook such a great buy
The demand for ultrabooks in education has increased in recent years, particularly with the advent of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. iiyama has now released an ultralight laptop exclusively for the educational market in Japan. The iiyama Campus PC notebook is specifically designed for student use and comes…
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‘Mil-Tech Valley’: How Ukraine is turning into a living AI war lab — with the help of a global armada of tech companies
The war in Ukraine continues to rumble on, and while we often hear of military actions, behind the scenes, it seems the nation is evolving into the world’s tech R&D lab. A report from Time claims Palantir Technologies has integrated its software into the daily operations of the Ukrainian government,…
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World’s largest private cloud computing platform promises to slash your hyperperscaler costs by up to 90% — and adds a CDN service to its offering
Conventional content delivery networks (CDN) are notoriously complex, often leaving businesses and web developers in need of assistance to configure, manage, and optimize infrastructure cost-effectively and efficiently. Private cloud computing platform Vultr has introduced a new CDN service that is designed to push content closer to the edge without sacrificing…
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