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CHIPS and Science Act – Wikipedia
United States legislation promoting the semiconductor industry and public basic research “CHIPS Act” redirects here. For other uses, see Chips Act. CHIPS and Science Act Other short titles CHIPS Act of 2022 Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act Supreme Court Security Funding Act of 2022 Long title Making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the …
OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed company
OpenAI, under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, has agreed to purchase $51 million worth of AI chips from a startup named Rain AI, in which Altman has also made a personal investment. Rain AI, a San Francisco-based firm, is researching neuromorphic processing units (NPUs) designed to mimic the human brain. OpenAI’s agreement to purchase …
Zen 3 Customized – Chips and Cheese
Recently, curiosity drove me to do some microbenchmarking on Lambda Cloud’s A100 instance. That A100 instance is powered by a “AMD EPYC 7J13 64-Core Processor”. AMD’s site does not mention this SKU, nor is it listed on Wikipedia’s Epyc page. lscpu claims it runs at 2.45 GHz, which is probably a base clock. Integer addition …
Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down • The Register
Poll When Intel debuts its forthcoming Meteor Lake client processors, it could be the end of the chip giant’s long-standing naming conventions for desktop and mobile processors. Chipzilla today told The Register “We are making brand changes as we’re at an inflection point in our client roadmap in preparation for the upcoming launch of our …
AMD Researching Photonic Technology, Light Speed Communication On Multi-Layered Chips
AMD has shown an interest in photonic technologies and the benefits of unbelievably fast data communication for the company’s semiconductors. In fact, in 2020, the company filed a patent in the U.S. Patent Office that demonstrates (on paper) a supercomputer that could allow for organically photonic-based communications systems that would link to a single chip, …
Technology and geopolitics – The struggle over chips enters a new phase | Leaders
Jan 23rd 2021 WHEN MICROCHIPS were invented in 1958, the first significant market for them was inside nuclear missiles. Today about a trillion chips are made a year, or 128 for every person on the planet. Ever more devices and machines contain ever more semiconductors: an electric car can have over 3,000 of them. New …
How Racism Slowly Chips Away at Black People’s Health
Enduring is all I have. It’s what my ancestors passed on. This is Race and Medicine, a series dedicated to unearthing the uncomfortable and sometimes life-threatening truth about racism in healthcare. By highlighting the experiences of Black people and honoring their health journeys, we look to a future where medical racism is a thing of …
U.S. to tighten restrictions on Huawei access to technology, chips, sources say
The logo of Chinese company Huawei at their main U.K. offices in Reading, west of London, on January 28, 2020. Daniel Leal-Olivas | AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is set to announce on Monday it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies, aimed at cracking down on its access to commercially available chips, …
U.S. strikes at a Huawei prize: chip juggernaut HiSilicon
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The latest U.S. government action against China’s Huawei takes direct aim at the company’s HiSilicon chip division — a business that in a few short years has become central to China’s ambitions in semiconductor technology but will now lose access to tools that are central to its success. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. …