Non 5G Kirin 980 is Cortex A75 in 7nm
5G Focus on AI
Huawei has its Kirin chips for its phones and later this year it plans to launch its first 7nm TSMC based Kirin 980.
Android P is all about AI
New android first thoughts
Google launched its Android P beta and for the first time it made it available for nine phones and only two are the usual Google Pixel and Pixel 2 suspects.
Intel Xeon AWS AI can read 4X faster than Nvidia
Software optimizations to blame
There's an unexpected twist in the tangled tale as Intel managed to prove that for machine translation, which uses RNNs, the Intel Xeon Scalable processor outperforms NVidia V100 based systems by four times.
Snapdragon 730 and 710 details leaked
8nm and 10nm 2+6 cores
Qualcomm is expected to launch its 700 series rather soon and the latest leaks describe two rather robust products coming soon. The Snapdragon 700 series was launched by Cristiano Amon, the company’s president at the Mobile World Congress 2018 without going into any details.
Xiaomi to open retail store in Vienna
Coming to Italy and France in May
Xiaomi is definitely entering a few more European markets. Xiaomi confirmed that it will start officially offering its devices in Italy and France and it is about to open up a retail store in Vienna too.
Windows on Snapdragon SDK supports 64 bit
The next step for Windows 10 PC on ARM
Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced the Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 that contains an early preview of the SDK and the tools to allow you to create your own 64 bit ARM apps.
Qualcomm is ready for Android P
Snapdragon 845, 660 and 636
Qualcomm announced that it plans to fully support Android P on select Snapdragon mobile platform. Having early access, that enabled Qualcomm to optimize its software on Snapdragon 845, 660 and 636 mobile platforms to ensure readiness for OEMs to upgrade to Android P at the time of launch.
Xilinx has majority of LiDAR market
Essential for Level 4 / 5 self driving
Xilinx is not a name that you associate that much with the automotive industry, but these guys actually play in most of the self driving and other automotive markets.
IBM AC922 Power 9 server has 6 Nvidia V100s
Enterprise AI beats the X86 competition
IBM has just announced an AC922 Power 9 based machine that addresses artificial intelligence (AI), deep and machine learning - aimed at the enterprise AI market.
Nvidia shutting GPP makes it look guilty
Geforce Partner Program RIP
Geforce Partner Program is officially terminated, as of last Friday, and it makes Nvidia look guilty as hell. Nvidia - a massively dominating player - has close to 75 percent of discrete market share, but this varies up and down from quarter to quarter. Some report that regulators got involved and started looking at GPP. Once you have 75 percent plus market share in anything, you don't want regulators to knock on your doors.