AMD Helios vs Vera Rubin NVL72: the MI455X numbers
Lisa Su held a chip up on stage in San Francisco on July 23 and called Helios the best rack in the world today. The slide behind her read IN ...
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Etched raises $300M at $10.3B: where did Sohu go?
We went looking for the Sohu spec sheet, and it is not there any more. Etched raised 300 million dollars on July 23 at a 10.3 billion dollar valuation, led ...
BMS committed to eight Vera Rubin systems, not a cluster
So Bristol Myers Squibb put out a press release on July 20, and the headline calls it the most powerful AI factory in life sciences. Read past the headline and ...
Humanoid HMND 01: what the robot unicorn really ships
So a two-metre robot in a black vest stands in an auto-parts plant, moving grey totes from a pallet to a trolley, and that quiet scene is the actual story ...
NVIDIA Jetson T3000 and T2000: Thor for mainstream robots
So Jensen Huang stands on a stage in Japan holding a module smaller than a paperback, and that's the actual news. On July 16 NVIDIA added two chips to its ...
Apple sued OpenAI over trade secrets on 10 July
Two years ago Apple put ChatGPT inside the iPhone. On July 10 its lawyers filed a complaint against OpenAI in a federal court in California, accusing it of taking Apple's ...
Nvidia cut half its authorised AI chip buyers in Asia
A small cloud in Singapore quotes you GPU hours at a price that makes your finance person smile. Then the quote goes quiet, and nobody explains why. Here's a decent ...
Meta’s Iris chip enters production in September
A leaked internal memo, not a keynote, is how we found out Meta has a new chip. On July 9 Reuters reported it: Iris, the latest in Meta's in-house MTIA ...
OpenAI’s first chip, Jalapeño, is built for inference
Sam Altman got handed a chip on a stage, and the AI hardware race picked up a new character. On June 24, OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom ...