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20.10.26 - 02:36
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Alibaba′s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos (SCMP)
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Alibaba Group Holding's research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in artificial intelligence and automotive systems.
Meng Jianyi, chief scientist at Damo Academy, announced the figure on Monday at the annual RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen. The achievement comes as Chinese companies seek to play a greater role in the global RISC-V ecosystem, an......
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20.10.26 - 01:51
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Brookfield, NextEra To Build $100 Billion AI Hub On Cold War Nuclear Site (ZeroHedge)
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Brookfield, NextEra To Build $100 Billion AI Hub On Cold War Nuclear Site
Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice,
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced a landmark $100-billion private investment to turn the former uranium enrichment site in Western Kentucky into the new Paducah American Energy Hub, marking one of the largest economic development projects in Kentucky's history.
Led by U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, the initiative will bring together a private-sector coalition to build a massive artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) innovation campus powered by new energy infrastructure. The phased buildout is targeted for 2032, and is expected to create roughly 8,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent operations jobs. Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) has been selected to build the 1.8-gigawatt (GW) AI and HPC data center campus while NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) will develop 2 GW of natural gas-fired generation coupled with 2.6 GW of battery energy ...
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20.10.26 - 01:36
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SK Hynix moves AI data centers from processor-centric to memory-centric design (Digitimes)
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SK Hynix has presented the Memory-Centric AI Rack System (MARS) at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit. The architecture separates memory from individual servers and pools it at the rack level over Compute Express Link (CXL) fabrics. The company says this addresses the capacity and cost limits that are constraining the growth of large AI models....
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20.10.26 - 01:36
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Taiwanese server makers deepen Mexico investments amid US AI spending boom (Digitimes)
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Taiwanese electronics makers are deepening their presence in Mexico's Chihuahua state, drawn by surging US demand for AI servers, officials and business leaders told a seminar in Taipei on October 19. The pace of foreign investment is driven by the state's access to the US market, even as Chihuahua seeks to transition from a manufacturing base into a research and design hub....
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20.10.26 - 01:36
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DIGITIMES Insight: AI packaging power reaches kilowatt scale as thermal design moves toward the die (Digitimes)
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Generative AI is pushing chip power consumption and heat flux to unprecedented levels, driving AI packaging thermal management requirements from several hundred watts to the kilowatt (kW) scale. Heat sink specialist Jentech Precision points out that package lids are evolving beyond conventional solid-state heat conduction toward phase-change heat spreading and microchannel liquid cooling, with TIM-less architectures representing the next horizon....
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20.10.26 - 01:12
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Z.AI Founders Worked on Research Funded by China Institute UK Tied to Spies (Bloomberg)
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Four founders of one of China's most promising artificial intelligence companies, Z.AI Co., worked on research in a joint project with a technology institute that the UK government accused of having “very strong ties” to China's main spy agency, according to publicly available research papers from China and an “espionage alert” from the UK....
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20.10.26 - 00:51
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Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says (TechCrunch)
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AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face's chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch […]...
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20.10.26 - 00:06
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Big Take: CoreWeave And The Fragile AI Economy (Bloomberg)
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CoreWeave's debt is rattling some investors. Today on the Big Take podcast, what the company's financial strain reveals about the AI boom and what lies ahead for cloud infrastructure providers. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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19.10.26 - 23:54
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Big Tech Earnings Could Validate AI, Ives Says (Bloomberg)
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Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville, Ives, and Company, says the upcoming earnings from major technology companies will be an important test of confidence in AI. He also talks about giving investors a chance to invest in private ai companies.
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19.10.26 - 23:48
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Tenstorrent CEO on New Funding Round, AI Progress (Bloomberg)
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Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller discussed the chip startup's $1.5 billion funding round, which values the company at about $6.2 billion. He said the company is focused on scaling its Galaxy server program and developing AI intellectual property, rather than pursuing a sale. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Bailey Lipschultz on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)...
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