CHIPS & AI
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…
CHIPS & AI
AI
GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Goes Live, AMD Unveils MI300X AI Chip
OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available while AMD launches the MI300X AI accelerator, expanding options for developers building multimodal AI…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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…
AI
GPT-4 Turbo, MI300X, and Xeon 6: Three Layers of the AI Hardware Stack
GPT-4 Turbo ships measurably better reasoning. AMD MI300X brings 5.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Intel Xeon 6 argues the CPU still matters.…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Jolla’s Russian separation: what actually happened
Jolla Russia is a closed chapter. The two-year separation from Open Mobile Platform finally completed in June 2024, costing Jolla its largest…
AI
DuckDuckGo Launches “No-AI” Toggle: Differentiation Through Subtraction
DuckDuckGo's new setting lets users turn off AI summaries. It is a positioning move that proves sometimes differentiation comes from subtraction.
AI
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…
CHIPS & AI
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…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
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…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
European Market Collapse: From Fan Favorite to “Why Bother?”
By June 2024, the European OnePlus community has largely dispersed, moving to rival brands like Nothing, Pixel, and Xiaomi. With increased competition…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
The AI Hardware Split: Edge vs Datacenter, and Where I’m Placing My Bet
May 2024 brought three announcements that clarify where enterprise AI infrastructure is heading, and I'm placing my bet on edge computing over…
AI
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…
AI
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, OpenAI’s Multi-Cloud Strategy, and Microsoft’s AI Ethics Framework: Enterprise AI Enters a New Phase
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro extends AI context to 2 million tokens, OpenAI expands beyond Azure to multi-cloud deployment, and Microsoft releases its…
AI
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…
CHICAGO
Belvidere’s Revival and the Illinois EV Corridor’s Second Act
The Illinois EV corridor's revival centers on saving Belvidere's plant, idled in 2023, through UAW negotiations and federal funding. This complex struggle…