CHIPS & AI
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06/15/2024
DUV Restricted, High-NA Arrives
High-NA EUV arrives at Intel for 380 million dollars a tool, just as the Dutch restrict immersion DUV to China and a new CEO…
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Chips & AI
Semiconductor coverage, chipsets, AI platforms — Qualcomm, Snapdragon, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Intel and AI innovation.
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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06/14/2024
The Ayaneo Pocket S Chases Premium in a Category That Got Interesting by Being Cheap
The Ayaneo Pocket S is a premium Android handheld powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon G3x Gen 2, featuring a stunning 1440p screen. While it offers…
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AI
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06/10/2024
The AI Stack Is Splitting: On-Device vs. Cloud Inference and Why the Middle Ground Is a Losing Bet
Apple M4 hits 38 TOPS. Google ships Gemini 1.5 Pro for the cloud. Intel's Xeon 6 tries to serve both. The AI stack is…
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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06/04/2024
Computex 2024: Copilot+ PCs Launch, Cristiano Amon and Satya Nadella Redefine the PC
Computex 2024 in Taipei was dominated by a single story: the launch of Copilot+ PCs, which heralded a significant shift in the computing landscape.…
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CHIPS & AI
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06/04/2024
Intel 3: The First Node Built to Be Sold
Intel 3 marks a pivotal point in Intel's strategy, serving as its first foundry node designed for external customers. As the company aims to…
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AI
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05/27/2024
Your AI Revolution Is Waiting in a GPU Queue
Agentic AI, quantum computing, and biotech drug discovery are all racing for the same finite pool of data center silicon. The bottleneck is not…
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AI
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05/22/2024
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro: The Cloud Reasoning Play and Why It Matters for On-Device AI
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro delivers real multimodal reasoning gains. It is also a cloud play in an era when on-device inference is becoming structurally…
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AI
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05/20/2024
SMIC 5nm: Pushing DUV Past Reason
SMIC 5nm means leading-edge logic on DUV at punishing cost, driven by China's need to build Huawei's Ascend AI chips after the US banned…
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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05/01/2024
Qualcomm Q2 FY2024: Revenue Up 9%, Snapdragon X Elite Copilot+ PC Wave Incoming
Qualcomm’s Q2 FY2024 results continue the recovery narrative, with $9.4 billion in revenue, marking a significant 9% year-over-year increase. This positive trend illustrates the company’s resilience…
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CHIPS & AI
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04/24/2024
Ray-Ban Meta’s Multimodal AI Update: The Software Moat
Meta AI goes multimodal on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses with visual understanding and video calling, proving the software upgrade cycle is the real business…
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CHIPS & AI
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04/20/2024
Llama 3, AMD XDNA, and H100 SXM5: Three Bets on Where AI Actually Runs
Meta's Llama 3, AMD's Ryzen 7000, and NVIDIA's H100 SXM5 represent three competing bets on AI infrastructure: open versus closed, edge versus cloud, ARM…
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CHIPS & AI
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03/18/2024
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Is the Chip That Actually Puts AI in Your Pocket
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 pushes the flagship's on-device generative AI down a full price tier, and that quiet move may matter more than…
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AI
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03/15/2024
Quantum Time: When Entanglement Becomes Temporal
Temporal entanglement is not science fiction. Researchers at the University of Chicago demonstrated quantum correlations across time intervals in superconducting circuits. The infrastructure implications…
7 MIN
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CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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01/31/2024
Qualcomm Q1 FY2024: Recovery Begins as Snapdragon X Elite PC Momentum Accelerates
Qualcomm’s Q1 FY2024 results signal the beginning of the company’s recovery, showcasing a remarkable revenue of $9.9 billion which surpasses analyst expectations. This positive…
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CES
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01/13/2024
CES 2024: AI Eats Everything
CES 2024 is dominated by artificial intelligence, influencing products and discussions throughout the event. Innovations like the Rabbit R1, transparent TVs, and new graphics…
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