Arm releases latest CPU and GPU designs
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:33

Arm releases latest CPU and GPU designs


Including the "most performant and efficient GPU" to date

Arm has unveiled its latest CPU and GPU designs for top-tier smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.

French AI releases coding program
Published in AI
Thursday, 30 May 2024 10:20

French AI releases coding program


A computer that can write code

Mistral, the French AI startup supported by Microsoft and valued at €6 billion, has unveiled its inaugural generative AI model for coding, named Codestral.

China’s top chip makers trying to localise supply
Published in News


Counting the US export controls

China’s top chipmakers are intensifying efforts to localise the supply of essential semiconductor materials and chemicals to counteract US export controls.

Malaysia wants to raise billions for chip industry
Published in News


Neutral ground between China and the US

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he wants to attract €500 billion in investment in the semiconductor industry.

Chinese give a robot dog a gun
Published in News
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:59

Chinese give a robot dog a gun


What could possibly go wrong?

During recent military exercises with Cambodia, China's military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle affixed to its back.

TSMC is on track for 2nm in 2025
Published in News
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:37

TSMC is on track for 2nm in 2025


Tame Apple Press rejoices

TSMC claims it is on track to build its 2nm node, the firm’s VP of Process Development, Zhang Xiaogang, said.

Users shunning Macs
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:13

Users shunning Macs


Apple losing market share to proper laptops from Dell and HP

Fruity cargo cult Apple is losing the PC race with Dell and HP PCs.

Nvidia chips might have ARM doing the processing
Published in PC Hardware


Off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn that says Nvidia is using off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores to process its 2025 chip, all packed in along shiny new Blackwell GPU cores.

OpenAI trains a new AI
Published in News
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 10:21

OpenAI trains a new AI


Successor to GPT-4

OpenAI has announced that it has started training a new flagship artificial intelligence model that would succeed its GPT-4 technology.

Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 image for Milk-V Mars
Published in PC Hardware


RISC-V business

Canonical has officially released the optimised Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a credit-card-sized RISC-V single-board computer (SBC) developed by Shenzhen MilkV Technology.