CPU scaling with DLSS — investigating CPU performance in the age of upscaling

DLSS can represent a massive improvement in your performance in games, but it can also introduce a CPU bottleneck. Here, we benchmark various CPUs in multiple games to see how CPU performance scales across resolutions and …

TSMC is on track to have more employees than Intel for the first time in history — TSMC’s explosive growth stands in contrast to Intel’s rapid contraction

After years of job cuts, Intel is about to get behind TSMC in terms of the headcount.

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One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns

A report from consumer firm Circana has shown that two-thirds of those opposed to AI believe it isn’t useful on their devices, while a third weren’t interested at all in the technology.
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Russian ‘Inspector’ spacecraft intercepted communications from a dozen European satellites, report claims — fears Moscow could even manipulate trajectories or crash satellites

European officials believe that two Russian “Inspector” SIGINT spacecraft operating in geostationary orbit have intercepted communications from at least a dozen European satellites.
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Jim Keller’s Tenstorrent is downgrading Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores via firmware update — will ship cards with 120 tensor cores going forward, company claims existing users should expect 1-2% performance drop

Tenstorrent downgrades existing and new Blackhole p150 cards from 140 to 120 tensor cores

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Tesla’s robotics ambitions rest on the knife-edge of US-China trade relations due to its supply chain — the majority of critical materials and suppliers are located in China

For Tesla to reach its goal of producing a million Optimus robots a year, it will need mountains of critical materials and deep supply chain cooperation. The majority of that “Optimus Chain” is found in China, highlighting…

$40 million worth of crypto stolen from Step Finance — hackers compromise executives’ devices to gain illicit access

DeFi platform Step Finance has been hit with a $40 million breach stemming from compromised devices used by its executive team.
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Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption

Intel and SoftBank subsidiary, Saimemory, have signed a new collaborative agreement to advance the development and manufacture of a new type of vertical-stacked memory known as Z-Angle Memory, or ZAM.
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SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity

Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to help achieve his dreams of putting AI data centers in orbit, with a goal of hitting 100 gigawatts of compute in space.
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Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND

Generative AI is pushing demand in all areas of the industry, and data interconnects, such as Silicon Photonics, may well be the next big bottleneck that hyperscalers need to be paying attention to.
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