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UALink Consortium poised to compete with Nvidia's NVLink — AMD and Intel-led group opens doors to contributor members
The Ultra Accelerator Link, or UALink, Consortium has officially incorporated, becoming a legal entity. The group, made up of AMD, Intel, Meta, Google, and other major tech players, seeks to create a standard to dethrone Nvidia's NVLink for server cluster communication.
Chinese mineral restrictions spur Australia to scavenge waste for new sources of chipmaking materials — country turns to mining waste for rare earths
Australian scientists are developing techniques to extract rare earth metals crucial to semiconductor manufacturing more efficiently from mining waste.
Supermicro's stock plummets 35% in one day as accounting firm resigns — storm brews after DOJ probe into manipulated finances
Supermicro's stock tanked 35% today after its accounting firm resigned, citing unreliable management and an inability to comply with company expectations and the law.
Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week
One week after its release, Intel's Core Ultra 200S series still has not sold a single unit on Mindfactory, Germany's largest online PC component retailer. While the chips have sold out on most American retailers, Mindfactory's provided numbers show that Intel sales have plummeted to nearly zero on Mindfactory.
Ryzen AI 300 takes big wins over Intel in LLM AI performance — up to 27% faster token generation than Lunar Lake in LM Studio
A new AMD blog post shows off Ryzen AI 9 HX 375's performance on LM Studio, a desktop app for hosting powerful LLMs locally. The Ryzen chip handily beats the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V in a bevy of performance tests.
AMD research suggests plans to catch up to Nvidia using neural supersampling and denoising for real-time path tracing
AMD appears to have plans to use a neural network to perform denoising and reconstruct scene details. It's not yet available, but it sounds a lot like Nvidia’s Ray Reconstruction feature in DLSS 3.5.
Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report
Despite export restrictions, enough AI processors have been smuggled into China to build world-class AI supercomputers. Workarounds including proxies and imports via other countries haven't stopped China from procuring large quantities of modern equipment.
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