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Intel resets its AI accelerator roadmap

Intel still sells Gaudi 3 and supports Gaudi 2, yet its stand-alone AI roadmap has changed substantially since Gaudi 3 arrived in 2024. Falcon Shores will remain an internal development vehicle rather ...
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Baikal builds Russia’s Nvidia alternative

Baikal Electronics has moved its AI processor plans from a roadmap to working hardware. The Moscow company, which has evolved from a conventional processor supplier toward a processor IP and ...
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MediaTek finally gets its Snapdragon X moment—just not on Windows

MediaTek has introduced the Dimensity CX C10 Max, a 3nm flagship notebook SoC with an eight-core Arm CPU, 11-core GPU, and 55-TOPS NPU aimed at Google’s new premium Googlebook platform. The silicon ...
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Alibaba builds its own AI stack

Alibaba has expanded its AI strategy from models and cloud services into a vertically integrated computing platform. Its new T-Head Zhenwu V900 accelerator combines 216 GB of memory, 1,200 GB/s ...
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MediaTek pushes Dimensity 9600 Pro into agentic AI

MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro brings agentic AI deeper into premium smartphones through tighter integration of CPU, NPU, GPU, ISP, memory, and connectivity. Built on TSMC’s 2nm process, the platform ...
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HP expands its AMD Ryzen Pro Max-series workstation line with ZBook Ultra G3a 16″

Building on the success of the ZBook Ultra G1a 14-inch, powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 300-series, HP announced a new mobile workstation, the ZBook Ultra G3a with AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max Pro 400 ...
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Apple’s next era

Apple’s Surprise and Shine event focuses on connectivity and health as the company unveils new devices, a new Siri, and a new form factor for the iPhone. (Source: Apple) A lot of excitement had been ...
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Gaming GPUs find new AI workloads

Gaming GPUs have always had the machinery needed for AI; much of Nvidia’s AI business grew from GPU technology developed for graphics and parallel computing. The RTX 5090 makes that connection ...
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Too many AI chips, too few customers

Here is a market that broke its own math. Since 2012, AI processor suppliers grew 267%, investors put more than $31 billion behind them, and new processor types kept arriving. The customer list never ...
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Fujitsu Monaka exports AI chips globally

Fujitsu has confirmed it’s taking its homegrown AI chip global, landing a supply deal with SuperMicro and courting major US cloud providers directly. The base Monaka CPU ships this November without a ...
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Perplexity brings its local agent stack to AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs

Perplexity has expanded Portable Computer, the local version of its Computer agent platform, to Windows PCs powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max Series processors, including the Ryzen AI Halo developer ...
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BrainChip puts Akida in every slot

Evaluating a new AI architecture usually starts with a wait: specialized boards, custom tooling, an NDA. BrainChip just deleted that step. Its AKD1500 PCIe card drops into any desktop, workstation, or ...