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Bugs, performance issues hinder Huawei’s AI chips

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 3 September - 13:34

Bugs, performance issues hinder Huawei’s AI chips

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China’s efforts to match US computing power in artificial intelligence are being hampered by bug-ridden software, with customers of leading AI chipmaker Huawei complaining about performance issues and the difficulty of switching from Nvidia products.

The Chinese technology giant has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to develop a domestic alternative to industry leader Nvidia, after Washington further tightened export controls on high-performance silicon last October.

Its Ascend series has become an increasingly popular option for Chinese AI groups to run inference, a process that applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT use to generate responses to queries.

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Cette RTX 4060 profite d’une belle promotion pour la rentrée

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 30 August - 12:58

[Deal du jour] Que vous souhaitiez améliorer votre configuration actuelle ou monter un PC de zéro, cette carte graphique 4060 en promotion est l'occasion idéale pour économiser sur l'un des composants les plus coûteux d'une tour gaming.

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Intel en danger ? Le fondeur vit la période la plus difficile de son histoire

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 30 August - 08:38

Selon les informations de Bloomberg, Intel serait à la recherche de solutions pour continuer à exister. Le fondeur travaillerait avec des banques pour restructurer ses activités, alors que l'architecture de ses puces ne domine plus l'industrie.

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Nvidia profits fail to spark share price rally; UK car production falls ahead of new models - business live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 August - 06:56

Live coverage as chip company beats analyst expectations but share price falls 7% in after hours trading

Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets.

Nvidia shares are down 7% in after-hours trading despite actually beating analyst expectations for sales and profits.

Nvidia achieved record revenues as global data centers are in full throttle to modernize the entire computing stack with accelerated computing and generative AI.”

Although the results slightly beat expectations, their share price was down around -7% in after-hours trading, partly because it fell short of some estimates that had been looking for an even stronger release. For instance, the revenue outperformance was the smallest relative to expectations in six quarters, so this wasn’t the sort of massive beat that Nvidia has often reported over the last 18 months.

At the same time, the Q3 revenue guidance came in a touch above the average estimate ($32.5bn vs $31.9bn est.) but still well within the range of analysts’ views.

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Blockbuster Nvidia earnings beat Wall Street’s sky-high expectations

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 28 August - 20:30

Chipmaker, third most valuable company in world, records $30.04bn in revenue, showing AI demand continues to rise

Chipmaker Nvidia reported its latest financial results on Wednesday, recording $30.04bn in revenue over the past three months – a 122% jump from the year prior – and showing that artificial intelligence investment mania shows no signs of cooling.

The importance of Nvidia’s earnings results to Wall Street can hardly be overestimated – the company represents 6% of the total value of the S&P 500, currently the third most valuable company in the world by market capitalization at $3.1tn.

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Energy bosses to meet UK minister on fuel debts; City regulator ‘concerned’ over life insurance market – business live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 28 August - 07:07

Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as bosses from Centrica, EDF, E.On and Octopus Energy among those meeting minister

The FTSE 100 has edged up by 0.1% in the first few minutes of trading.

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EUROPE’S STOXX 600 UP 0.2%

BRITAIN’S FTSE 100 UP 0.2%; GERMANY’S DAX UP 0.3%

FRANCE’S CAC 40 UP 0.3%; SPAIN’S IBEX UP 0.2%

EURO STOXX INDEX UP 0.3%; EURO ZONE BLUE CHIPS UP 0.3%

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Can upstate New York become the next Silicon Valley? This ex-Nvidia founder thinks so

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 27 August - 07:00

Curtis Priem has a vision for a quantum computing future and believes the area along the Hudson valley is fertile for the next tech boom

The “quantum chandelier” that sits within a glass box in the chapel at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s campus in Troy, New York, is the symbolic centerpiece of an ambitious effort to turn upstate New York into an advanced technology center – what Silicon Valley is to social media or Cambridge, Massachusetts, is to biotech.

The silver sci-fi object, named for interior gold lattices that suspend, cool and isolate its processor, is the heart of a “quantum computing system” that could herald a new age of computing. It’s the centerpiece of the dream Curtis Priem, a co-founder of Nvidia, the $2.8tn artificial intelligence hardware and software company, has of turning Rensselaer, or RPI, into an advanced computing hub and refashioning this area of upstate New York into a new Silicon Valley.

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Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 20 August - 19:09 · 1 minute

Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity

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Back in 2013, Nvidia introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering effects and reduce input lag when playing PC games. The company accomplished this by tying your display's refresh rate to the actual frame rate of the game you were playing, and similar variable refresh-rate (VRR) technology has become a mainstay even in budget monitors and TVs today.

The issue for Nvidia is that G-Sync isn't what has been driving most of that adoption. G-Sync has always required extra dedicated hardware inside of displays, increasing the costs for both users and monitor manufacturers. The VRR technology in most low-end to midrange screens these days is usually some version of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync or the similar VESA Adaptive-Sync standard, both of which provide G-Sync's most important features without requiring extra hardware. Nvidia more or less acknowledged that the free-to-use, cheap-to-implement VRR technologies had won back in 2019 when it announced its "G-Sync Compatible" certification tier for FreeSync monitors. The list of G-Sync Compatible screens now vastly outnumbers the list of G-Sync and G-Sync Ultimate screens.

Today Nvidia is announcing a change that's meant to keep G-Sync alive as its own separate technology, while eliminating the requirement for expensive additional hardware. Nvidia says it's partnering with chipmaker MediaTek to build G-Sync capabilities directly into scaler chips that MediaTek is creating for upcoming monitors. G-Sync modules ordinarily replace these scaler chips, but they're entirely separate boards with expensive FPGA chips and dedicated RAM.

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IA : AMD marche sur les platebandes d’Nvidia… et joue avec le feu

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 20 August - 13:27

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L'entreprise de Lisa Su espère concurrencer le géant vert sur son propre terrain, à savoir l'infrastructure IA. Une stratégie audacieuse et risquée dans un contexte d'instabilité du marché et de lutte acharnée sur le segment CPU, qui reste son coeur de métier.