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

• 1PB

  Want to store 1PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for as little as $10,000 a month — Qumulo says it can scale to Exabytes off premise and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all

  Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), which it claims is the first truly cloud-native, ..

  March 16, 2024

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• A100

  AI chip built using ancient Samsung tech is claimed to be as fast as Nvidia A100 GPU — prototype is smaller and much more power efficient but is it just too good to be true?

  Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an AI chip ..

  March 15, 2024

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• androdogs

  World’s largest laptop vendor quietly releases robot with six legs — Lenovo Daystar Bot GS is IP-rated and reminds us of Boston Dynamics’ andro-dogs

  There can’t be many people who haven’t seen at least one video of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot ..

  March 11, 2024

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• AMD

  AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU

  Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD’s extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable ..

  March 10, 2024

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• 16K

  Las Vegas Sphere has 4,000TB SSD storage delivering 400GB/s throughput — World’s only 16K display requires some exquisite technology to keep it going

  We’ve written previously about some of the technology that powers the Las Vegas Sphere, including the 16K interior ..

  March 10, 2024

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• Aero

  HP’s lightest laptop could be the most powerful sub-1Kg notebook released yet — Aero 13 ultrabook has a tiny price tag, a super fast Ryzen 7 CPU but you have to wait till May to buy it

  Last year we called the HP Pavilion Aero 13 “probably the best value-for-money light laptop on the market ..

  March 10, 2024

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• AMD

  Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

  Tenstorrent, the firm led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD’s Zen architecture ..

  March 10, 2024

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• 999WHr

  Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

  Tecno Mobile, while not widely known outside of China, does have a reputation for making high-quality ..

  March 9, 2024

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• 999WHr

  Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

  Tecno Mobile, while not widely known outside of China, does have a reputation for making high-quality ..

  March 9, 2024

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• backers

  ‘Another startup that will cause gaming GPU prices to spike’: AI firm claims Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs are better value than Nvidia’s H100 — nearly six hundred backers believe that is the case

  Tiny corp., a startup that manages the neural network framework tinygrad, has unveiled a new AI system ..

  March 8, 2024

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