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Fujitsu uses Fugaku supercomputer to train LLM: 13 billion parameters
(Image credit: Getty Images) Although Fujitsu’s Fugaku supercomputer is no longer the world’s fastest machine from the Top 500 supercomputer list, it still is a very capable system and the versatility of the A64FX processor allows to use it for a variety of workloads, such as AI. This week Fujitsu released its Fugaku-LLM, a large… Read more
US attacks China’s Quantum research, spy balloons by adding 37 companies to ban list — Entity List aggressively targets potential military applications
(Image credit: Reagan Foundation) The Chip War rages on between the United States and China, as Biden’s Commerce Department has added 37 Chinese entities involved in quantum technology to the Entity List under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), harshly restricting the flow of American resources to the targeted entities. 37 entities in the most recent… Read more
Blacklisted China chipmaker SMIC becomes the world’s second-largest pure-play foundry by revenue — outsells GlobalFoundries and others
(Image credit: SMIC) Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s largest contract chipmaker, this week announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2023. Despite crushing US sanctions, SMIC is now the world’s second-largest pure-play foundry after TSMC. The company managed to outsell GlobalFoundries and UMC, two of the other pure-play foundries, which it used to… Read more
Latest AMD Strix Point leak highlights monster 120W TDP and 64GB RAM limit
A shipping manifest listing printed circuit board components designed for AMD’s upcoming Strix Halo mobile APU has been discovered (reported by harukaze5719 on X). The specs also reveal the chip’s TDP and memory capacity, which are 120W and 64GB, respectively. The system components are part of a prototype system AMD is potentially using to test… Read more
Huawei and OrangePi launch new dev board with mystery CPU and AI processor — Huawei again hides chip specs from prying eyes
(Image credit: OrangePi) Huawei and OrangePi have announced a joint venture in the OrangePi Kunpeng Pro development board. The Raspberry Pi alternative runs not only a quad-core 64-bit Arm processor but also an AI processor that’s integrated into the same package, but Huawei and OrangePi aren’t releasing the specifics of the processor. In fact, the… Read more
AMD responds to buggy AI software complaints, releases firmware documentation for RDNA3 GPUs — pressure from TinyCorp spurred the sudden posting
Following AMD’s confirmation last month that it was moving forward with plans to open source its GPU stack after complaints from Tiny Corp, we’ve finally seen the first significant step via the release of MES documentation on GPUOpen.com. MES stands for Micro Engine Scheduler, which corresponds to how graphics and compute work are scheduled on… Read more
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google’s AI experts assist researchers
(Image credit: Google) A recent attempt to fully map a mere cubic millimeter of a human brain took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. A collaborative effort between Harvard researchers and Google AI experts took the deepest dive yet into neural mapping with the recent full imaging and mapping of… Read more
ZMF Caldera Closed Planar Magnetic Headphones Review
15 Packaging & Accessories » Introduction ZMF made a strong debut here on TechPowerUp with the flagship Caldera open-back planar magnetic headphones. The Caldera had launched in late 2022, taking advantage of over six years of R&D and the newly developed Atrium Damping System (ADS). Incidentally, ADS—which is now patented—itself debuted earlier in 2022 with the… Read more
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