Ternary Computing Died in 1965. AI Inference Just Reinvented the Only Part That Mattered.
A Soviet machine called Setun ran on minus one, zero and plus one from 1958 and was killed off in 1965. Ternary LLM weights,…
A Soviet machine called Setun ran on minus one, zero and plus one from 1958 and was killed off in 1965. Ternary LLM weights,…
TSMC plans to increase its 2nm capacity from 90,000 to 110,000 wafers monthly by mid-2027 and aims for significant growth in its 3nm and…
ECB president Christine Lagarde warned Monday that Europe risks being cut off from AI entirely, citing the US's 75 percent share of global compute.…
Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Council has paused construction on 49 data centers and frozen 117 awaiting approval due to regulatory concerns over…
Nvidia is shifting its focus beyond GPUs, highlighted by the introduction of the Vera CPU, enhancing storage and memory operations. The company’s strong position…
Qualcomm and Amazon have entered a significant AI chip deal valued at up to $60 billion, including a $4 billion stock warrant for future…
The PORTS-Pike data center landed a $105 billion Nvidia guarantee, 9.2 GW of federally owned gas funded by Japan, and an $80 million community…
Alibaba's share placement raised $10.2 billion, the largest primary follow-on in Hong Kong history. Against RMB67.7 billion of June-quarter capex, it buys about one…
Nvidia's AI server prices are set to increase by over 15 percent due to surging memory costs from suppliers like Samsung and SK Hynix.…
Seven. That’s how many generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit Amir Salek shipped before he left in 2022, and it matters more than his…
CME Group is launching two futures contracts on October 5 that will allow trading of Nvidia GPU rental prices, reflecting their high demand in…
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a powerful server rack featuring three wafer-scale chips, promising significant throughput improvements. However, despite reported advancements and a $180.1 million…
A Guardian investigation into internal Microsoft documents found the company has 2.2 million AI chips installed, a fraction of what its own gigawatt claims…
Firebird's Armenia AI factory, the biggest in the former Soviet bloc, is really a story about export licenses: Washington cleared Nvidia Blackwell into a…
Chicago's new executive order on data centers lacks a clear definition of what constitutes a data center, complicating regulatory measures. Mayor Brandon Johnson faces…
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