1/100th of the cost: CPU startup Tachyum claims that one of its processing units can rival dozens of Nvidia H200 GPUs — with a 99% saving that could turn the AI market on its head if true

Tachyum has confirmed it will begin mass production of its Prodigy Universal Processor later this year – the product which combines the functionality of a CPU, GPU, and TPU in a single unit, and threatens to turn the AI market

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AI helps the world’s biggest tech firms smash $10 trillion market capitalization ceiling — Nvidia replaces Facebook as the new kid on the block while Microsoft displaces Apple at the helm

The world’s biggest tech giants have swelled more than $1 trillion in valuation, thanks in part to investments and advancements in generative AI – collectively exceeding $10 trillion in valuation.  But it’s not good news for everyone, as Meta, which

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Revolutionary cooling system helps Micron unleash SSD solution that tops a whopping 45GBps — Airjet delivers yet another convincing tour-de-force to keep four PCI 5.0 SSD running

Micron has showcased a new concept product that combines four 2TB Crucial T700 SSDs in a RAID array on an add-in card (AIC) to hit up to a staggering 45Gbps – all cooled by Airjet’s novel cooling system. The Crucial

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Hard disk drives are next in line to become mostly enterprise hardware — as Nvidia (and AMD) could be planning to focus on AI, leaving consumers as second-class citizens

Hard drives may become a technology that’s almost exclusively the preserve of enterprise and businesses over the next few years, and there’s every chance that consumer-grade graphics cards will follow suit. Hard drive shipments declined sharply over the last five

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Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloads — AVX-512 instructions will help Xeon beat Epyc in specific scenarios but Intel will have to work much, much harder to worry AMD

Intel’s 5th-Gen Xeon Scalable processors, built on the Emerald Rapids architecture, can benefit from a huge raw performance boost when running AVX-512 workloads. An Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPU can almost double its average performance while also increasing power efficiency

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“Thousand times brighter than OLED”: How cheap material bound to revolutionize solar panels could one day also make your laptop display finally readable in bright sunlight

The ULTRA-LUX project, led by technology company Imec, has developed a new type of light-emitting diode (LED) – known as perovskite LEDs (PeLED) – that might one day consign OLED displays to history. Some of the best TVs and the

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