… For instance, a former manager at TSMC was the first to be indicted under the island's National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China. As AI continues to stoke global competition, Taiwan will continue to take such infractions very seriously. …
… This should improve chip power efficiency and create more efficient AI systems that work within "real-world power and cooling constraints." As opposed to fantasy power and cooling constraints, which seem to be de rigeur in many AI data center circles right now. …
… The chip contains no support for hardware ray tracing or matrix units with which to accelerate AI upscaling, but it was able to run modern games with nary a hiccup, which is a considerable improvement over China's other home-grown gaming GPU, the Moore Threads MTT S80 . …
… It seems like the AI boom has really squeezed semiconductor leader TSMC's supplies dry, and Intel is now being tapped to provide some chips in its place. …
… McGuire argues that more chips to China means fewer chips to US firms, and therefore fewer resources pumped into American AI. …
… One enterprising firm might create something experimental with such an edge chip and surprise us all. The RAMpocalypse will almost certainly kill off any notion of such a venture, though, because prices for chips in the edge market are considerably higher than the domestic one. …
… Where Vera Rubin , Blackwell , and older AI superchips all use high bandwidth memory HBM for the GPU's local storage, because of the bandwidth demands of AI training, CPX uses 128 GB of GDDR7 mounted directly on the PCB, rather than the processor's package. …
… But enough cynicism, the double plus-side here is that not only will we be getting a new processor, but also hopefully some decent competition against Nvidia's RTX Spark alongside Qualcomm's Arm-based chips. …
… "Taiwan is the epicentre of the AI revolution," Huang went on to say, "This is where the chips come, packaging comes, this is where the systems are made, this is where AI supercomputers were created. …
… For one thing, the chip aims to deliver "up to 20% longer battery life," while also being an "up to 12 degrees Celsius cooler chipset under load." In theory, that should allow for thinner, lighter, and cooler smartglasses frames. …