All posts by waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)

• candidate

  ‘Holy grail for memory tech’: New candidate for universal memory emerges in race to replace RAM and NAND — and this one doesn’t use a toxic compound

  The current memory market, worth $165bn a year, is dominated by DRAM and NAND flash. The former is fast ..

  February 19, 2024

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• 70W

  Nvidia’s entry level GPU can handle 66 million pixels, enough to feed two 8K monitors — but it is its tiny 70W power consumption that will get jaws dropping

  Nvidia has unveiled the RTX 2000 ADA Generation, a powerful yet energy-efficient addition to its workstation ..

  February 18, 2024

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• biggest

  Some of the world’s biggest cloud computing firms want to make millions of servers last longer — doing so will save them billions of dollars every year

  Some of the world’s largest cloud computing firms, including Alphabet, Amazon, and Cloudflare, have ..

  February 18, 2024

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• behemoth

  Nvidia going for rivals’ jugulars as it plans to compete in $30 billion custom chip market — but is it a sign that the AI behemoth has reached its peak?

  Nvidia currently controls about 80% of the high-end AI chip market, a position that has boosted its stock ..

  February 17, 2024

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• assembled

  ‘The most powerful machine yet assembled on Earth’: China quietly launched record-breaking supercomputer — and someone virtually deconstructed its processor

  China has quietly launched the Tianhe-3 supercomputer, which is believed to be the most powerful machine ..

  February 17, 2024

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• assembled

  ‘The most powerful machine yet assembled on Earth’: China quietly launched record-breaking supercomputer — and someone virtually deconstructed its processor

  China has quietly launched the Tianhe-3 supercomputer, which is believed to be the most powerful machine ..

  February 17, 2024

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• billions

  ‘Anywhere there’s a camera, now there’s a risk’: Billions of users at risk of Peeping Toms — scientists devise incredibly simple eavesdropping system costing only a few hundred dollars

  A new threat to privacy has emerged, as scientists in the US have found a way to spy on video feeds from ..

  February 17, 2024

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• Altman

  OpenAI is looking to build an AI chip empire worth more than AMD, Nvidia and intel combined — Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion says WSJ report

  In a bid to reshape the global AI chip industry, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in discussions with ..

  February 17, 2024

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• 576GB

  Someone took Nvidia’s fastest CPU ever and built an absurdly fast desktop PC with no name — It cannot play games but comes with 576GB+ of RAM and starts from $43,500

  GPTshop.ai has unveiled the world’s first Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip-powered supercomputer, ..

  February 15, 2024

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• 128TB

  More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities

  Samsung has forecast that we can expect single SSD capacity to be as high as 1PB within the next decade, ..

  February 14, 2024

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