Tag: CPUs
From Celestial AI to Taalas, these startups are seeking to challenge Nvidia’s AI computing dominance or find other areas ripe for disruption in the semiconductor industry. Nearly two years ago, the semiconductor industry received a jolt of newfound interest when the world woke up to the game-changing capabilities of generative AI and the powerful chips…
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Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cube and Posit were among the most innovative vendors at Databricks Data+AI Summit 2024. Tech giants, startups and one company a Databricks co-founder dubbed “the coolest open source company” people haven’t heard of gathered this week for the open analytics platform provider’s annual Data+AI Summit. During the event, the San Francisco-based vendor…
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Apple’s much-anticipated upcoming suite of AI features for select iPhones, Macs and iPads is called Apple Intelligence, and it will include an enhanced Siri experience, systemwide Writing Tools, message and notification prioritization, call transcription and summarization, and ChatGPT integration. Apple Monday revealed Apple Intelligence, its much-anticipated suite of AI features that will enhance Siri’s natural…
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With Nvidia, Intel and AMD signaling that the semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hyperdrive, Computex 2024 was an event not to miss for channel partners who are building businesses around next-generation PCs and data centers, especially when it comes to AI. The future of AI computing was on full display at this…
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For the week ending June 7, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cisco Systems, SAP, Workday, Intel and AMD. The Week Ending June 7 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Cisco Systems, which launched a $1 billion global AI investment fund to make strategic…
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Intel says its new Xeon 6 E-core CPUs feature up to 288 cores and will enable data centers to significantly reduce energy consumption and space. CRN goes through four important points about the new server CPUs, including how they’re different from past generations. Intel used Computex 2024 to mark the launch of its Xeon 6…
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Intel says the investment will add to the $18.4 billion it has put into Fab 34 so far, and it will allow the chipmaker to ‘unlock and redeploy to other parts of its business a portion of this investment while continuing the build-out’ of the Ireland plant. Intel announced on Tuesday that it has secured…
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The chip designer claims that its forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors for Windows Copilot+ PCs can outperform its rivals’ chips in NPU performance, large language model performance, productivity, graphics, multitasking, video editing and 3-D rendering. AMD has revealed its third generation of Ryzen processors for AI PCs with a new brand name, claiming that…
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Fresh off its $1.1 billion funding round this month, cloud AI startup CoreWeave is reportedly looking to hit the public market by the first half of 2025. Here’s what you need to know. CoreWeave, the cloud AI startup heavily backed by Nvidia and private equity firms, is reportedly seeking to become a public company in…
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Qualcomm is stepping up the competition against Intel and AMD in the PC processor space with its new Snapdragon X chips, which it says enable faster performance, better on-device AI processing and longer battery life in several high-end laptops from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Microsoft is signaling the dawn of a new era for personal…
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