Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
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Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
AMD & NVIDIA are claiming that they both offer over 2x gain over the competitor with their EPYC Genoa & Grace Superchip CPU platforms for data centers. AMD & NVIDIA Go Guns Blazing Against Each Other: Both Claim Data Center Leadership With EPYC Genoa & Grace Superchip CPUs NVIDIA's entry into the data center CPU segment with its Grace Superchip and Grace CPU has been a major deal, especially for the x86 market which has enjoyed its dominance in the space for quite some time. While Arm chips have seen decent adoption, NVIDIA's Grace CPU, also based on Arm architecture, […]
X Chairman, Elon Musk, announces the commencement of GROK 3 training at Memphis using the current-gen NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The training of 'the most powerful AI cluster in the world' begins with the help of 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs The popular venture 'xAI' from the company's chairman has officially begun training on NVIDIA's most powerful data center H100 GPUs. Elon Musk proudly announced this on X, calling it 'the most powerful AI training cluster in the world!'. In the post, he said that the supercluster will be trained by 100,000 liquid-cooled H100 GPUs on a single RDMA fabric and congratulated […]
According to a report in the Taiwanese press, Taiwan's contract chip manufacturer TSMC turned down NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's request to set up a dedicated packaging manufacturing line for NVIDIA's products. Along with semiconductor fabrication, chip packaging has become an equally important part of the industry's rush to ship thousands of. AI chips worldwide. However, unlike fabrication capacity, packaging has struggled to meet the elevated demand for chips, making TSMC, the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, dedicate considerable resources towards it. TSMC's latest earnings call also focused on packaging, with the firm choosing to redefine its market to add the […]
NVIDIA reportedly already has a Titan-class graphics card based on its next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture but its launch is doubtful. NVIDIA Titan Series Graphics Cards Do Exist But Behind Curtains As Leaker Suggests A Next-Gen Design Powered By Blackwell GPUs NVIDIA's Titan series of graphics cards have long seen no action. The last Titan card was the Titan RTX which launched back in 2018 and features the Turing GPU architecture. Since then, NVIDIA has released two new generations of GPUs, Ampere and Ada Lovelace, both of which didn't see a Titan-class graphics card. For some time, it was believed that […]
NVIDIA is reportedly working on a new exclusive AI GPU for China, the B20, based on its next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture. NVIDIA Bringing Blackwell's AI Might To China With B20 Accelerator, Expected To be Mass Produced In Late 2024 At GTC 2024, NVIDIA unveiled its next-gen Blackwell AI GPU architecture which comes in various forms. The two primary chips powering the Blackwell platforms are the B100 and B200, featuring some powerful specifications primed at AI solutions. The first Blackwell solutions will be readily available within the second half of this year and the demand is sky-high but it looks like […]
Microsoft backed OpenAI continues to remain interested in designing and developing its own chips in order to reduce the supply constraints that the broader industry is facing right now, according to a fresh report from The Information. OpenAI's narrow AI products require thousands of GPUs to function, and the details of the report share that the firm has talked with chip designer Broadcom which makes application specific chips for AI use cases. The portion of report shared by a Taiwanese publication outlines that while initially, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was interested in setting up his own chip manufacturing facility, his […]
Microsoft, Google, & other CSPs are reportedly offering China access to NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI hardware, potentially creating a workaround for US regulations. China Has Still Access To NVIDIA's Cutting-Edge AI Hardware Despite US Restrictions Through "Legal" Workarounds It looks like the US sanctions couldn't manage to thwart the AI developments in China, as the nation has sought out alternatives through workarounds that cannot be penalized. After the emergence of in-house AI solutions, it looks like the big tech firms are collaborating with Chinese customers to provide them with access to NVIDIA's high-end AI hardware, such as the H100-based AI servers, […]
NVIDIA has announced that it will transition to open-source GPU kernel modules for Linux, with the change coming in an upcoming driver update. NVIDIA Looks To Be More "Open-Source" At Linux With Its Upcoming Drivers, Fueling Community Development [Press Release]: With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs, with GeForce and Workstation GPUs in an alpha state. At the time, we announced that more robust and fully-featured GeForce and Workstation Linux support would follow in subsequent releases and […]
Jim Keller, the iconic chip designer, and Tenstorrent's CEO believes that NVIDIA has yet to tap into certain AI market segments, creating a gap for other companies to fill. Jim Keller Believes In AI Compute Scalability & Cost-Effectiveness As Tenstorrent To Target Markets That Are Ignored or Not Touched By NVIDIA In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Jim Keller said that despite NVIDIA controlling a hefty share of the AI markets, there are still some gaps left that Team Green hasn't been able to fill in, and this has provided an opportunity to the likes of Tenstorrent and other AI […]
Supply chain sources now report that Samsung has successfully passed NVIDIA's qualification tests for its HBM3E memory, a massive breakthrough for the Korean giant. After Months of Rumors & Developments, Samsung Has Finally Managed To Gain NVIDIA's Trust In Its HBM3E Memory It looks like Samsung has finally achieved a goal that the firm has desired for several quarters. The Korean giant is preparing to start supplying HBM3E to none other than NVIDIA. For those unaware, Samsung has been trying for quite some time now to achieve NVIDIA's certification for its HBM3 processes since that would not only put the […]
British startup Spectral Compute has unveiled "SCALE," a GPGPU toolchain that allows NVIDIA's CUDA to function seamlessly on AMD's GPUs. NVIDIA's CUDA Can Now Directly Function With Non-NVIDIA GPUs Such As AMD's Without The Need For Code Porting, Courtesy of SCALE Well, it looks like the industry has been able to break NVIDIA's software stack dominance, so they are now looking for ways to remove the "exclusivity" status through various means. We previously saw the emergence of ZLUDA, an open-source porting project that allowed CUDA libraries to work with AMD's ROCm, ultimately supporting Team Red's GPUs. A new competitor has […]
AMD & NVIDIA are claiming that they both offer over 2x gain over the competitor with their EPYC Genoa & Grace Superchip CPU platforms for data centers. AMD & NVIDIA Go Guns Blazing Against Each Other: Both Claim Data Center Leadership With EPYC Genoa & Grace Superchip CPUs NVIDIA's entry into the data center CPU segment with its Grace Superchip and Grace CPU has been a major deal, especially for the x86 market which has enjoyed its dominance in the space for quite some time. While Arm chips have seen decent adoption, NVIDIA's Grace CPU, also based on Arm architecture, […]
X Chairman, Elon Musk, announces the commencement of GROK 3 training at Memphis using the current-gen NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The training of 'the most powerful AI cluster in the world' begins with the help of 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs The popular venture 'xAI' from the company's chairman has officially begun training on NVIDIA's most powerful data center H100 GPUs. Elon Musk proudly announced this on X, calling it 'the most powerful AI training cluster in the world!'. In the post, he said that the supercluster will be trained by 100,000 liquid-cooled H100 GPUs on a single RDMA fabric and congratulated […]
According to a report in the Taiwanese press, Taiwan's contract chip manufacturer TSMC turned down NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's request to set up a dedicated packaging manufacturing line for NVIDIA's products. Along with semiconductor fabrication, chip packaging has become an equally important part of the industry's rush to ship thousands of. AI chips worldwide. However, unlike fabrication capacity, packaging has struggled to meet the elevated demand for chips, making TSMC, the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, dedicate considerable resources towards it. TSMC's latest earnings call also focused on packaging, with the firm choosing to redefine its market to add the […]
NVIDIA reportedly already has a Titan-class graphics card based on its next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture but its launch is doubtful. NVIDIA Titan Series Graphics Cards Do Exist But Behind Curtains As Leaker Suggests A Next-Gen Design Powered By Blackwell GPUs NVIDIA's Titan series of graphics cards have long seen no action. The last Titan card was the Titan RTX which launched back in 2018 and features the Turing GPU architecture. Since then, NVIDIA has released two new generations of GPUs, Ampere and Ada Lovelace, both of which didn't see a Titan-class graphics card. For some time, it was believed that […]
NVIDIA is reportedly working on a new exclusive AI GPU for China, the B20, based on its next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture. NVIDIA Bringing Blackwell's AI Might To China With B20 Accelerator, Expected To be Mass Produced In Late 2024 At GTC 2024, NVIDIA unveiled its next-gen Blackwell AI GPU architecture which comes in various forms. The two primary chips powering the Blackwell platforms are the B100 and B200, featuring some powerful specifications primed at AI solutions. The first Blackwell solutions will be readily available within the second half of this year and the demand is sky-high but it looks like […]
Microsoft backed OpenAI continues to remain interested in designing and developing its own chips in order to reduce the supply constraints that the broader industry is facing right now, according to a fresh report from The Information. OpenAI's narrow AI products require thousands of GPUs to function, and the details of the report share that the firm has talked with chip designer Broadcom which makes application specific chips for AI use cases. The portion of report shared by a Taiwanese publication outlines that while initially, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was interested in setting up his own chip manufacturing facility, his […]
Microsoft, Google, & other CSPs are reportedly offering China access to NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI hardware, potentially creating a workaround for US regulations. China Has Still Access To NVIDIA's Cutting-Edge AI Hardware Despite US Restrictions Through "Legal" Workarounds It looks like the US sanctions couldn't manage to thwart the AI developments in China, as the nation has sought out alternatives through workarounds that cannot be penalized. After the emergence of in-house AI solutions, it looks like the big tech firms are collaborating with Chinese customers to provide them with access to NVIDIA's high-end AI hardware, such as the H100-based AI servers, […]
NVIDIA has announced that it will transition to open-source GPU kernel modules for Linux, with the change coming in an upcoming driver update. NVIDIA Looks To Be More "Open-Source" At Linux With Its Upcoming Drivers, Fueling Community Development [Press Release]: With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs, with GeForce and Workstation GPUs in an alpha state. At the time, we announced that more robust and fully-featured GeForce and Workstation Linux support would follow in subsequent releases and […]
Jim Keller, the iconic chip designer, and Tenstorrent's CEO believes that NVIDIA has yet to tap into certain AI market segments, creating a gap for other companies to fill. Jim Keller Believes In AI Compute Scalability & Cost-Effectiveness As Tenstorrent To Target Markets That Are Ignored or Not Touched By NVIDIA In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Jim Keller said that despite NVIDIA controlling a hefty share of the AI markets, there are still some gaps left that Team Green hasn't been able to fill in, and this has provided an opportunity to the likes of Tenstorrent and other AI […]
Supply chain sources now report that Samsung has successfully passed NVIDIA's qualification tests for its HBM3E memory, a massive breakthrough for the Korean giant. After Months of Rumors & Developments, Samsung Has Finally Managed To Gain NVIDIA's Trust In Its HBM3E Memory It looks like Samsung has finally achieved a goal that the firm has desired for several quarters. The Korean giant is preparing to start supplying HBM3E to none other than NVIDIA. For those unaware, Samsung has been trying for quite some time now to achieve NVIDIA's certification for its HBM3 processes since that would not only put the […]
British startup Spectral Compute has unveiled "SCALE," a GPGPU toolchain that allows NVIDIA's CUDA to function seamlessly on AMD's GPUs. NVIDIA's CUDA Can Now Directly Function With Non-NVIDIA GPUs Such As AMD's Without The Need For Code Porting, Courtesy of SCALE Well, it looks like the industry has been able to break NVIDIA's software stack dominance, so they are now looking for ways to remove the "exclusivity" status through various means. We previously saw the emergence of ZLUDA, an open-source porting project that allowed CUDA libraries to work with AMD's ROCm, ultimately supporting Team Red's GPUs. A new competitor has […]