Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
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Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i

Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.

Summit supercomputer discovers how cells repair DNA damage
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Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.”

Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw computational muscle to examine how cells repair DNA damage.

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”
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Boffins don’t back the hype

Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.

ASML and Imec team up on sub-2nm process technology
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Bankrolled by the EU

ASML and Imec have decided to get cosy for the next five years, ensuring that the Belgian research lab gets a High-NA EUV lithography machine.

Intel hires Lip-Bu Tan for new CEO
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Needs quick turn around before Celine Dion starts singing

Troubled Chipzilla has once again shuffled the deck chairs on its sinking semiconductor ship, bringing in industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest CEO to attempt a turnaround.