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Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

Google is using machine learning to help design its next generation of machine learning chips. The algorithm’s designs are “comparable or superior” to those created by humans, say Google’s engineers, but can be generated much, much faster. According to the tech giant, work that takes months for humans can be accomplished by AI in under… Read more

ARM unveils Cortex-X2, A710, A510, new Mali GPUs as it prepares to go 64-bit only

ARMv8 has been around for years, it is the first 64-bit version of the ARM architecture. Now it’s time to move on to ARMv9. No, it’s not jumping to 128-bit, but it does bring the end of 32-bit designs. ARM is planning to take Cortex-A cores 64-bit only by 2023 and it is working with… Read more

Further Pixel 6 details – Whitechapel matches SD870, 120Hz display, 5,000mAh battery

Yesterday we got a report about Google’s upcoming Pixel 6 and 6 Pro and their custom Whiechapel chip and now we have some more details to add to that courtesy of another insider. Google’s custom Whitechapel chip, designed in cooperation with Samsung on its 5nm process, will reach the level of performance of a Snapdragon… Read more

Google and Seagate Are Using AI to Predict Hard Drive Failures

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Google Cloud and Seagate offered a peek at their efforts to use machine learning, a type of AI, to predict when data center hard disk drives (HDDs), which are responsible for storing many terabytes of data, might start to fail so they can plan around those disruptions to their systems…. Read more

Samsung Announces First Compute Express Link Memory Module

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) In a press release today, Samsung has announced memory modules based on the CXL standard, bringing together PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 for AI and high-performance computing work in data centers. (Image credit: Samsung) CXL is an open standard first mooted in 2019, with a view to bringing high-speed, low latency… Read more

HPE to Build Supercomputer with 100K AMD Zen 3 Cores

Home News (Image credit: NSCC) Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week said it had landed an order to build a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. The new system is powered by AMD’s Epyc ‘Milan’ processors as well as Nvidia’s A100 compute GPUs; it is eight times more powerful than its predecessor. NSCC’s supercomputer uses… Read more

Corsair RM750x (2021) Power Supply Review

Our Verdict The new Corsair RM750x (2021) achieves top performance, isn’t noisy, and is equipped with a top-notch ML fan. For + Full power at 47 degrees Celsius + High overall performance + Silent at low and mid loads + Fully compliant with ATX v2.52 + Highly efficient at light loads + Long hold-up time… Read more

Arm Details Neoverse V1 and N2 Platforms, New Mesh Design

Home News (Image credit: Arm) Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the first power-on of an Arm processor. Today, the company announced the deep-dive details of its Neoverse V1 and N2 platforms that will power the future of its data center processor designs and span up to a whopping 192 cores and 350W TDP. Naturally,… Read more

Alienware Launches its First AMD Laptop Since 2007

Home News (Image credit: Dell) Alienware is releasing its first laptop with an AMD CPU since 2007. Its parent company, Dell, today announced the Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5, alongside a lower-end Dell G15 Ryzen Edition and a Dell G15 refresh with Intel chips. The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 will use AMD’s Ryzen 5000… Read more

Arm Unveils Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Qualcomm) Arm this week announced Armv9, its latest instruction set architecture that will power a broad range of processors and system-on-chips that will be launched in the coming years. The new ISA promises to enable designers to build SoCs with multiple special-purpose accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI), machine leading, digital signal processing (DSP),… Read more

Corsair RMx Series 850 W (2021) Review

Introduction We would like to thank Corsair for supplying the review sample. After almost three years in production, Corsair decided to update its popular RMx line. There are again five members with capacities ranging from 550 W to 1000 W. All are fully modular, and the OEM is still Channel Well Technology. Listed below are… Read more

How to Build a Raspberry Pi Object Identification Machine

In this tutorial, we will train our Raspberry Pi to identify other Raspberry Pis (or other objects of your choice) with Machine Learning (ML). Why is this important? An example of an industrial application for this type of ML is identifying defects in circuit boards. As circuit boards exit the assembly line, a machine can… Read more

heise offer: Online intensive course: Deep learning with TensorFlow and Keras

In this online course, you will learn with many practical exercises to program machine learning models with deep neural networks. In addition to the basics of deep learning, special emphasis is placed on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for processing images and recurrent neural networks (RNN) for processing sequential data such as texts. The course focuses… Read more

heise offer: Minds Mastering Machines 2021: Call for Proposals extended by one week

heise offer by 24. From January 1st, experts can now submit their presentations on developer topics related to machine learning. Of Rainald quantity-solar day The Minds Mastering Machines will take place on 27. and 28. April as an online event. In addition to the two conference days, additional workshops are planned. With its technical focus,… Read more

Car methanol from air CO2 by temperature difference alone: the Chinese study

A group of Chinese researchers showed in the laboratory the possibility of obtaining methanol, which can be used in cars as a fuel, starting from the CO2 in the air by exploiting simple temperature changes, using nanosurfaces of tungsten and bismuth perosvskite by Roberto Colombo published 18 January 2021 , at 11: 01 in the… Read more