The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned China that economic sanctions are on the table for what he describes as "IP theft." He claims that Chinese AI developer Moonshot used improper techniques to train its Kimi K3 AI on Anthropic's Fable model, though others also accuse it of breaching … …
Samsung has announced its new UFS 5.0 mobile storage solution, which it claims is the fastest in the industry. UFS 5.0 uses a new generation of Samsung V‑NAND and implements the latest JEDEC UFS 5.0 standard to deliver higher performance and efficiency than current UFS 4.1 options. …
… Credit: AMD But Epyc Venice is likely to be an absolute monster platform for compute, especially for AI. AMD claims that these chips can operate up to 1.7 times the speed of last-generation Epyc CPUs, and since core counts are only increasing by a third 256 vs 192 , that's a major leap. …
… But let's instead focus on the claims that are provably false. Musk has said that space offers unlimited access to solar power, which is flatly wrong. …
… Samsung claims it can deliver a more than 2x performance improvement with a 70 percent power reduction at the same time, with no required hardware or software changes. …
… But the RX GRE claims performance at RTX 5070 levels, about 25% faster than a 5060 Ti 16GB across the board. In some cases, though, like Monster Hunter Wilds, AMD claims it can be as much as 40% faster. …
… The chips are split into four distinct ranges: the Epyc 9006 Venice family with socket SP7 designed for mainstream servers; Epyc 9006 on socket SP8 for enterprises for optimized performance per node; Epyc 9006X on SP7 for high-performance computing with large cache; and Epyc 9007 LP Verano, for AI … …
… Qualcomm claims the Hexagon 698 supports 15 TOPS trillions of operations per second and has 3MB of dedicated L3 cache. Therefore, it doesn't have to share cache with the CPU cores. This all means that phones with the Snapdragon 865 will be able to do more AI processing locally. …
… Overall CPU performance improvements from the Kirin 980 to the Kirin 990 are modest -- Huawei claims single-threaded gains of 9 percent and multi-threaded boosts of 10 percent. Power efficiency, however, has improved significantly. …
… Power efficiency has improved substantially, with claims of a 1.5x improvement over GCN. A relatively small percentage of the total benefit of Navi is attributed to 7nm silicon, and AMD did not explain where it spent the chip's transistor budget in any detail. …