Qualcomm reveals HBC near-memory AI architecture, AI250 and AI350 accelerators — touts 6x higher bandwidth-per-watt compared to HBM, 200x capacity compared to on-chip SRAM
 Qualcomm reveals HBC near-memory AI architecture, AI250 and AI350 accelerators — touts 6x higher bandwidth-per-watt compared to HBM, 200x capacity compared to on-chip SRAM

Qualcomm unveils HBC near-memory AI architecture, claims it has broken the memory wall.

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Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI’s first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle
 Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI’s first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle

Broadcom and OpenAI reveal their Jalapeño custom-built inference ASIC that allegedly beats existing leading-edge in terms of performance-per-watt.

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US Secures Netherlands for Pax Silica Alliance in key win for strategic chip alliance — tension remains over MATCH Act restrictions

Inside the US Pax Silica Alliance with the Netherlands.

China tops the list of fastest supercomputers with a CPU-only behemoth, ending US champion El Capitan’s reign — 2.198 exaflops of performance without a single GPU

China’s LineShine supercomputer has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list, posting 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark.

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TSMC is reportedly hiking prices for ‘all advanced nodes,’ accounting for 74% of the company’s wafer business — Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and others will face higher wafer costs

TSMC has reportedly told customers to prepare for 5% to 10% price hikes across advanced chip nodes, extending beyond 3nm to include 7nm and some legacy processes.

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SK hynix files to raise up to $29 billion in historic Nasdaq listing — all proceeds going to advanced AI memory fabs and EUV tool orders

SK hynix filed a securities registration statement on Wednesday to raise up to 45.45 trillion won through an American depositary receipt listing on Nasdaq.

AI data center boom hits a human bottleneck — critical skilled labor shortages could slow deployment despite billions in funding
 AI data center boom hits a human bottleneck — critical skilled labor shortages could slow deployment despite billions in funding

Data center construction is facing many challenges, and among them is a shortage of skilled hands to assemble the things.

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Meta pauses mandatory AI training program that tracked employee keystrokes after internal data leak exposed sensitive staff information company-wide — employees express frustration over poor handling of data

Meta has paused an internal AI training program after employee conversations, keystrokes, transcripts, and performance-related data were reportedly exposed across the company.

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Nvidia announces liquid cooling system that runs ‘hotter than a hot tub’ — promises to reduce electricity consumption and cut water use by up to 100%, but sustainability challenges remain

This system raises the base coolant temperature to 113 degrees F (45 degrees C) to save on electricity costs and reduce water consumption to basically zero.

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China’s LineShine supercomputer dethrones US’ El Capitan, secures first place in Top 500 list — first machine in the rankings to sustain more than 2 ExaFLOPS of double-precision performance using only CPUs

China’s LineShine supercomputer is now officially the world’s fastest FP64 machine, but its mixed-precision results are behind those of El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora.

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