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| vice President Vance AI Chips Will Be Made in the US |
2/13/2025 |
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“To safeguard America’s advantage, the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built in the US with American designed and manufactured chips,” he said in a speech on Tuesday at the Paris AI Summit.
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| TSMC expects Q1 sales at low end due to earthquakes |
2/12/2025 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. expects first-quarter sales at the lower end of its forecast after January earthquakes caused $161 million in losses. Despite this, TSMC maintains a gross profit margin of 57% to 59% and its full-year outlook. January revenue grew 36% to NT$293.3 billion.
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| Nvidia's RTX 5060 to feature 8GB VRAM with GDDR7 memory |
2/11/2025 |
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The RTX 5060 Ti will indeed offer 8GB and 16GB capacities, while the base RTX 5060 will stick with a paltry 8GB. With an expected 128-bit memory interface, the GPU bandwidth roughly comes out to be 448 GB/s thanks to the use of faster GDDR7 memory
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| Political economics of DeepSeek |
2/11/2025 |
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It is a politically powerful way for China to remind the world that it has not given up on the tech race, particularly AI. Besides the political points from the announcement,
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| Gelsinger Invests In British AI Chip Startup Fractile |
2/10/2025 |
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"To achieve our aspirations for AI, we will need radically faster, cheaper and much lower power inference. I’m pleased to share that I’ve recently invested in Fractile, a U.K.-founded AI hardware company who are pursuing a path that’s radical enough to offer such a leap,”
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| GlobalFoundries names new CEO |
2/7/2025 |
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In addition to the appointments of Tim Breen and Niels Anderskouv as chief executive and COO, the semiconductor giant’s chairman of the board is stepping down after 12 years in the role.
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| Apple’s Next-Gen M5 Chips Reportedly Enter Mass Production |
2/7/2025 |
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The M5 is expected to feature in the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and possibly a second-generation Apple Vision Pro. The M5 will use TSMC's N3P process for efficiency and speed -- and the M5 Pro variant could separate the central processing unit and graphics processing unit to improve performance.
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| G.Skill Targets Intel Core Ultra Users With 96GB DDR5 Memory |
2/7/2025 |
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The memory kits come in three flavors: Ripjaws M RGB, Trident Z5 RGB, and Trident Z5 Royal. The Ripjaws line has the most basic heatsink and style, but all three lines have RGB LED lighting. More importantly, the Ripjaws line has a lower-profile heatsink than its siblings, which is useful for cramped setups.
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| YMTC ships 294-layer 3D TLC NAND flash |
2/5/2025 |
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Yangtze Memory Technologies has started shipping its fifth-generation 3D TLC NAND flash memory, featuring 294 layers, though only 232 are active, according to reports. The reason for the dummy layers is not clear.
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