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China-made Moore Threads AI GPUs used for three billion parameter LLM training — MTT S4000 appears competitive against unspecified Nvidia solutions
Multitudes of Chinese Moore Threads S4000 AI GPUs have been put into a new computing cluster and used for LLM training, showing what appears to be competitive performance against unspecified Nvidia AI GPUs.
Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
Huawei's self-aligned quadruple patterning patent covers both 3nm and 5nm process technologies, which would allow SMIC and China to create more advanced chips despite the ongoing U.S. sanctions.
Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPU trails Core i9-14900K in leaked benchmark — Granite Ridge 5.8 GHz CPU shows Core i9-13900K-like single-threaded performance in CPU-Z
One user from the Baidu Tieba community has shared a screenshot and the single-threaded performance score for an alleged AMD Ryzen 9000 (Granite Ridge) CPU with Zen 5 execution cores.
Liquid-cooled RTX 4090 Suprim Fuzion Frankencard crams tubes and radiator into its monstrous 4.5-slot form factor
MSI's new RTX 4090 Supreme Fuzion graphics card sports a massive liquid-cooling solution that packs the tubes and radiator into the massive 4.5-slot form factor. The GPU will be announced at Computex 2024.
Asus NUC 14 Performance mini-PC launched — combines up to Core Ultra 9 185H and RTX 4070
Asus has added a new member to its NUC 14 family of mini-PCs. The new Asus NUC 14 Performance lives up to its suffix by packing in up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H ‘Meteor Lake’ processor, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 desktop GPU into a compact chassis.
MSI Z890 and B860 motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake-S leak via online database — devices certified ahead of Computex 2024
Leaks of eight Z890 and four B860 MSI motherboards for the LGA1851 socket appear on the Device Report online database. Official announcement of these boards is expected soon.
ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts
At imec’s ITF World 2024, ASML announced it set a new chipmaking density record with its first High-NA machine and proposed a Hyper-NA chipmaking tool and potential roadmaps. ASML also plans to radically boost the speed of future ASML tools.
US sanctions against China boost UMC's production — Taiwanese fab sees growth, but so does China
Taiwanese fab UMC has begun taking new orders from Texas Instruments, Realtek, and MediaTek. Recent US sanctions shift the global supply chain away from China, but Chinese indigenous demand keeps China in the lead.
CHIPs Act throws its weight behind glass packaging for chips — Biden admin invests in SK hynix affiliate
The Biden administration is allocating $75 million of CHIPS Act funding to Absolics to build a plant for glass semiconductor substrates in Georgia. Glass substrates are the next major step forward in semiconductor fabrication.
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated
The Windows 10 desktop wallpaper scene above wasn’t clinically and digitally spewed forth by some 3D rendering app. Rather this iconic floating window image, with mesmerizing light rays cutting through the haze, was physically set up and photographed by designer Bradley Munkowitz, also known as GMUNK.
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