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The Hot Take: ARM wants a piece of that Ai cash pie for sure. I'm wondering how their licensing partners are going to take this.
The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: GrapheneOS looks better more and more every day! Maybe I pay off my phone to move over to it now rather than later.
Sideloading on Android will get much harder for certain apps.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Uh oh, Ai king looks to be in trouble.
U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that he should suspend all active export licenses to China for Nvidia AI chips, saying that Nvidia's most advanced AI GPUs are being diverted into the country despite Jensen Huang's assurances.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Linux is coming for Windows Gamers for sure!
Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day difference, but for the games that do benefit from these changes, "the improvements range from noticeable to absurd." Combined with improvements to Wayland, graphics, and compatibility, as well as a major WoW64 architecture overhaul, the release looksā¦
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: US domestic chip manufacturing appears to be exploding. That's an insane goal, but to bad it's just for his companies.
"Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas" reports a local news station: Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called "Terafab," will be built near Tesla's campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties Tesla, SpaceX and xAI... The Terafab plant is expected to begin production in 2027. Musk "has said the semiconductor industry isā¦
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Green New agenda doesn't fit in with Ai replacement of the plebes for sure. So they push us to Solar & Wind while they get viable power options for a bot?
Microsoft and Nvidia are joining forces to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants for power-hungry AI data centers. The partnership combines generative AI, digital twin simulation, and Nvidia's Omniverse platform to streamline the nuclear lifecycle from permitting through operations.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: This has me wanting to try this again on my pixel after i unlock it.
GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Nvidia starting to feel the heat of competition and see those $ evaporate as they try other vendors.
Nvidia is preparing to launch a new chip designed to speed up AI responses, breaking with its long-running habit of flogging the same processor for every job. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is expected to unveil a chip focused on āinferenceā, meaning running models rather than training them. According to people familiar with the plans for GTC next week, the chip is the first new product to emerge from Decemberās $20bn deal to hire the founders of Groq, a start-up building ālanguage processing unitsā tuned for high-speed answers toā¦
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Intel doing what it's great at with it's CPUs, software optimizations.
With the introduction of the new Binary Optimization Tool (BOT), Intel is taking a significantly different approach to boosting the performance of modern processors than in the past. While traditional optimizations rely heavily on developers and are determined during the software compilation process, Intel is now focusing on a post-compilation optimization layer based directly on [ā¦] Source
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Linux appears to be getting more Rust by the day.
BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member, signaling a deeper investment in the Rust programming language and its role in modern infrastructure. The company already maintains an up-to-date Rust toolchain for Ubuntu and has begun integrating Rust into parts of its stack, citing memory safety and reliability as key drivers. By joining at a higher tier, Canonical is not just adopting Rust but also stepping closer to its governance and long-term direction. The move also highlights ongoing tensions in Rust'sā¦
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