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RunPod’s Secure Cloud GPU Rates Have Risen: H100 SXM Now $3.99 an Hour, B200 $7.99, a Tracker Reports
A GPU price tracker says RunPod raised 12 of 29 Secure Cloud rates on 8 Oct; RunPod's pricing page now shows H100 SXM $3.99 and B200 $7.99 an hour. No RunPod announcement.
Google Open-Sources ML Drift, the GPU Engine Inside LiteRT, Under Apache 2.0
Google has open-sourced ML Drift, the GPU engine inside LiteRT, under Apache 2.0. The 40%, 30% and 12% figures are Google's own claims; the old TFLite GPU delegate gets no new features.
Bitdeer AI Signs an 8-Year Agreement for a 60MW Malaysian Data Centre, With No Customer Yet
Bitdeer AI says it signed an 8-year agreement for a 60MW data centre in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Its release says no customer has committed to the capacity yet.
ASML and Zeiss Engineers Publish a “Hyper NA” Chipmaking Concept. It Is Not a Product.
Engineers at ASML and Zeiss published a concept for "hyper NA" chipmaking scanners with an NA of at least 0.75. It is a paper, not a product or an order.
Metals Market: A Lithium Survey Says Chinese Supply Is Lagging, and SMM Says Tungsten Has Two Prices
Mysteel says China's lithium carbonate supply is falling short of expectations in Q4; SMM says tungsten has one market and two prices. Both are data firms' estimates.
Unions Say a Strike at Antofagasta’s Centinela Copper Mine Could Halve November Output
A strike at Antofagasta's Centinela copper mine in Chile began on 7 October. Unions say November output could fall by half; the company declined to comment on that.
AMD Reportedly Raised GDDR6 Prices for Board Partners From 1 October; Intel Also Said to Have Adjusted Its Prices
BenchLife reports, citing China's Board Channels, that AMD raised GDDR6 prices for card makers from 1 October and Intel adjusted too. Nobody has confirmed it.
Counterpoint: Most Nvidia Rubin Products Likely to Use 12-Layer HBM4, Not the Rumoured Eight
Counterpoint Research says most Nvidia Rubin products will likely use 12-layer HBM4, not the rumoured eight, per Korea Herald. A forecast, not Nvidia's word.
Rumour: Leakers Say Nvidia Has Stopped Allocating GB202 Chips to the GeForce RTX 5090
Leakers say Nvidia has stopped allocating GB202 chips to the GeForce RTX 5090. Nvidia has not confirmed it. What is claimed, what is known and what is not.
China’s Policy Guidelines Call for a National Blockchain Network, but Give No Details
China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.
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