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Apple Throws Shade On Pokey AI PCs, Claims Its Maxed Out M4 Chips Are 4x Faster

Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs With the arrival of its M4 silicon on th... Read more

Microsoft Cloud Soars On AI Demand, But Rising Data Costs Cloud Outlook

Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings report reveals strong growth in its cloud revenue, largely fueled by surging dem... Read more

US Army Should Ditch Tanks For AI Drones, Says Eric Schmidt

And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution Former Google chief Eric Schmid... Read more

Sketchy Financials Send Supermicro Auditors Running For The Hills

If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with them Supermicro shares took a nose dive on Wednesda... Read more

Brit Apple Semi Supplier IQE's CEO Departs Amid Reshuffle

Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025 In an unexpected... Read more

No-Nvidias Networking Club Convenes In Search Of Open GPU Interconnect

Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025 The Ultra Accele... Read more

Samsung's Market Share Woes: Can The Galaxy Series Compete With Apple's IPhone And China's Foldables?

Samsung Electronics, once dominant in the global smartphone market, is grappling with a significant shift in competitive... Read more

AMD Teases Its GPU Biz 'approaching The Scale' Of CPU Operations

Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct A... Read more

Softbank CEO Says 'super AI' Will Arrive In 2035 And Cost $9T

Oh, and it'll need the total current US power output Video  Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire behind Softbank, h... Read more

XAI Picked Ethernet Over InfiniBand For Its H100 Colossus Training Cluster

Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips Unlike most AI training clusters, xAI's Colossus ... Read more

US Army Turns To 'Scylla' AI To Protect Depot

Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoD The US Army is t... Read more

The Troublesome Economics Of CPU-only AI

At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar Analysis  Today, most GenAI models are trained and run o... Read more

Chinese Chips, Quantum And AI Now On US Investment Blacklist

Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLA The US treasury department finalized a rule on Monday that limits domesti... Read more

Datacenter Developer Says Power Issues Holding Up New Builds

'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions' One of the UK's major com... Read more

FCC Chair: Mobile Dead Spots Will End When Space-based And Ground Comms Merge

Jessica Rosenworcel looks at policy challenges for the next decade The chair of America's Federal Communications Commis... Read more