… Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits. “Amazon is unlikely to build a better smartphone than Apple, Samsu… …
… Samsung positioned it as an exploratory project, a forward-looking concept aimed at evaluating consumer interest, usage patterns, and design viability for next-generation form factors." MORE CONTEXT Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. …
… As with the social media abusers who came before them, fraudsters choose cloud phones because they appear to be totally legitimate devices if you don't know how to examine their telemetry. Traditional banks of actual smartphones are expensive and cumbersome to maintain. …
… Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now Microsoft said it is "collaborating with Samsung's efforts to develop and validate solutions," but noted that "recovery options for devices already impacted remain limited… …
… But he sees long-term upside in both classes of device. “Over time, we expect the value of on-device AI to drive strong memory content growth in PCs and smartphones,” he said. “We see an unprecedented set of opportunities for memory and storage to enable the AI era across market segments and expect… …
PaaS + IaaS Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitr… …
… Alongside these models are a pair of LLMs optimized for low-end edge hardware like smartphones and single board computers, like the Raspberry Pi. These models are available in two sizes, one with two billion effective parameters and another with four billion. …
… Web Serial allows browsers to interact with devices that communicate via serial ports, such as 3D printers, microcontrollers like Arduino and ESP32, and related services like smart home dashboard ESPHome . It can also communicate with devices capable of emulating a serial port over USB or Bluetooth. …
… Google researchers looked at DRAM errors in its data centers back in 2009 and were surprised to find that DRAM error rates "are orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit and more than 8 percent of DIMMs affected by errors per… …
… The cause of all this is the boom in AI infrastructure, which has led memory chip makers to reallocate manufacturing capacity to output more of the high-margin components for AI servers and GPUs, rather than the everyday memory chips needed for PCs and other devices. …