… It’s also another step in the company’s embrace of open-source AI models, part of a broader strategy to maintain its dominance in AI infrastructure at a time when leading AI labs are building their own custom chips. …
… At the chip reveal event, Arm executives emphasized the company’s history of designing energy-efficient chips and claimed that its new AGI CPU will be the world’s “most efficient agentic CPU on the market.” Compared to competitors like the latest x86 chips made by Intel and AMD, Arm says this chip … …
… Meta says the MTIA 500, which is slated to arrive later next year, will have even more memory than MTIA 450 and include “innovations in low-precision data.” The MTIA chips are part of Meta’s broader strategy to hoard as much computing power as possible in order to develop cutting-edge artificial in… …
… Data centers, which use large amounts of energy running artificial intelligence chips, have pushed many large tech companies’ net-zero goals increasingly out of reach over the past few years. …
… From his perspective, targeting individual donors isn’t an optimal strategy. …
… The shortage in available chips has caused mass delays and price hikes of electronics worldwide, rendering the gaming industry one of its biggest casualties so far. …
… One worker describes the assignment as “mechanical and not creative,” and certainly “not using their full skill set and knowledge.” They feel they were hired to develop social media apps for billions of people, but now find themselves assembling data for hundreds of AI scientists to feed to compute… …
… And that jays in the Northeastern US often eat paint chips in search of calcium, which doesn't occur naturally in that region's soil? …
… The chipmaker Intel had planned to bring about 3,000 jobs to the region before money troubles and shifting priorities delayed plans by five years to 2030 and beyond. …
… I just do what I'm interested in on the podcast, and I let the chips fall where they may. …