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Samsung and SK hynix will detail GDDR7 with transfer rates up to 42.5 GT/s — Samsung 24Gb GDDR7 expected to deliver 170 GB/s of peak bandwidth

The GDDR7 SGRAM specification supports a maximum data transfer rate of 48 GT/s, but the first generation GDDR7 memory devices can operate with up to 32 GT/s data transfer rate. But it looks like GDDR7 will evolve pretty quickly as at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), both Samsung and SK hynix plan to… Read more

Huawei’s homegrown AI chip examined — Chinese fab SMIC-produced Ascend 910B is massively different from the TSMC-produced Ascend 910

Die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910 chip for AI produced by TSMC and its sibling Ascend 910B, allegedly manufactured by SMIC, reveal that while the chips have many similarities, they exhibit significant differences. The 910B features fewer cores. Kurnalsalts has published die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910, Ascend 910B, and a currently unknown Ascend 610… Read more

Elegoo’s Editor’s Choice-winning Neptune 4 Pro 3D Printer drops to its lowest-ever price of $269

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware / Amazon) 3D Printing used to be expensive and difficult. I remember my first 3D printer was an Anet A8 and it printed OK, but it was difficult to use, and it looked like a droid found at the back of a Jawa’s Sandcrawler! Oh, and it had the nickname “Firestarter,”… Read more

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger visits Elon Musk’s Memphis data center, touts Xeon deployment — praises xAI team for building it “in such a short amount of time”

(Image credit: Future) Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of embattled tech company Intel, praised the xAI team after visiting Elon Musk’s Memphis Supercluster. He posted on X (formerly Twitter) that xAI uses Intel Xeon processors for its AI head node — the dedicated server that manages the entire 100,000-GPU-strong cluster — and that it’s “incredible what’s… Read more

New U.S. restrictions will hit Chinese chipmaking tool companies — sanctions aim to slow development of domestic chipmaking tools to replace ASML, others

(Image credit: SkyWater) According to Bloomberg, the outgoing Biden administration is preparing new rules to slow down or limit advancements in China’s semiconductor industry. Still, the new restrictions will not be as severe as initially expected. While the new measures will reportedly hit select chipmakers, their main purpose is to curb the development of China-based… Read more

NATO warships surround Chinese ship suspected of sabotaging undersea internet cables — ship allegedly dragged anchor 100 miles

(Image credit: Shutterstock) Two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Central Europe were cut last week, with authorities suspecting sabotage. According to the Wall Street Journal, investigators suspect that the Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier traveling to Egypt from Russia and loaded with fertilizer, deliberately dropped its anchor in Swedish waters… Read more

$25 active memory cooler reduces temperatures of ‘naked’ RAM by up to 41% — Corsair Vengeance Airflow cooler prevents 768GB DDR5-6400 of server RAM from overheating

Computer memory is a component predominantly known for operating with passive cooling or no cooling at all. However, Phoronix reports that DDR5 server memory operating at DDR5-6000 or greater can run very hot, depending on the workload level. Therefore, server builders must consider running active coolers to prevent overheating. Phoronix clarifies that pre-built DDR5-equipped servers… Read more

Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU listed for $250 at US retailer — Battlemage prepares to rock the GPU market

Almost all indicators show that Intel aims to announce at least one Battlemage desktop GPU next month—the Arc B580—to compete against the best graphics cards. As spotted by momomo_us, Intel is seemingly cooking up an Arc B580 Limited Edition GPU for $250 based on preliminary listings. It is important to note that this $250 price… Read more

China debuts ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ chip to deliver networking solutions for AI — aims to compete with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium for next-generation interconnection technologies

Multiple Chinese tech firms recently launched several chips that will power ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ or GSE, a networking protocol designed to accommodate the large volumes of data and high transfer speeds that AI and other high-performance workloads require. According to The Register, state-owned China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the country, has been working… Read more

Samsung reshuffles semiconductor execs after poor performance in memory and NAND competitiveness

Samsung Electronics has revamped its leadership team to strengthen its memory and foundry chip divisions as it strives to compete with rivals SK hynix and TSMC in the rapidly growing AI market. The rearrangement includes significant promotions and role changes. Still, we can only wonder how this reshuffling can ultimately address issues with Samsung’s product and technology… Read more

Valve seemingly preps Steam Controller 2 and VR controller — “Ibex” and “Roy” controller renders spotted in SteamVR data mine

Yesterday on BlueSky, user Pavel Djundik (@xpaw.me) posted a thread of leaked renders for the upcoming Valve Steam Controller 2 (codenamed “Ibex”) and a few different prototype renders for next-gen VR controllers (codenamed “Roy”). While these designs are hardly finalized due to being found through a SteamVR update leak, they do indicate where Valve is… Read more

Intel Arc B580 Battlemage GPU allegedly surfaces on Geekbench — with 20 Xe Cores, 12GB of VRAM, and 2.85 GHz boost it falls short of the A580 despite being a generation newer

According to a benchmark at Geekbench, we have more information regarding the alleged specifications of Intel’s upcoming Arc B580 GPU — based on Team Blue’s Xe2 “Battlemage” architecture. The Arc B580 was spotted in a few preliminary listings last week at Amazon from ASRock, which were promptly taken down. This benchmark seemingly reaffirms that the… Read more

System integrator offers pre-orders for $52,500 AI workstation powered by up to eight RTX 5090s

Lithuanian system integrator Comino has started accepting pre-orders for its Grando Server that’s supposedly powered by six or eight Nvidia RTX 5090s. The AI workstation starts at €40,000 (approximately $42,000) for the base model with six GPUs and could go as high as €50,000 or around $52,500 for the model with two extra GPUs. According… Read more

Despite restrictions, Russia allegedly finds new way to produce sanctioned 48-core Baikal-S processors: Report

Russia has managed to obtain a small batch of 48-core Baikal-S processors aimed at servers and storage devices, reports CNews citing Vasily Shpak, Deputy Minister of Industry. The batch of 1,000 units will be distributed among developers and makers of servers, which will design products around these processor, something that suggests that more CPUs are incoming. The only question is… Read more

TSMC ‘Super Carrier’ CoWoS interposer gets bigger, enabling massive AI chips to reach 9-reticle sizes with 12 HBM4 stacks

TSMC is on track to qualify its ultra-large version of chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology that will offer an interposer size of up to nine reticle sizes and 12 HBM4 memory stacks in 2027, the company announced at its European Open Innovation Platform (OIP) forum this month. The new packaging method will address the most performance-hungry… Read more