Semiconductors - Page 10
Coverage of semiconductors: chipmakers such as TSMC, Samsung and Intel, fabs and manufacturing capacity, export controls and AI chip demand.
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Modal to Run Sandboxes on NVIDIA Vera CPUs After Early Tests
Modal plans NVIDIA Vera CPUs for Sandboxes after early tests showed up to 2x throughput. Serial gains not always; no rollout date. Mixed fleet via Reuters.
Scripps Research Gets Over 14 Million GPU Hours From Huang Foundation
Scripps Research gets more than 14 million GPU hours from the Huang Foundation via CoreWeave/NVIDIA. In-kind; no dollar value.
doubleAI Opens Early Access to Maxwell, AI That Rewrites Running Code
doubleAI opened early access to Maxwell, a Code Execution Model that rewrites binaries as programs run. Speed-ups are company claims.
AWS Releases TorchNeuron, a Native PyTorch Backend for Trainium
The PyTorch blog announces TorchNeuron, an open-source native backend for AWS Trainium. Code goes public on 20 Oct at PyTorch Conference; .to('neuron').
Taiwan Plans to Add AI Servers and Advanced Chips to Its Export-Control List
Taiwan's economy minister told Bloomberg Taipei will add AI servers and advanced chips to its export-control list, aligning with the US. No start date yet.
Swedish Firms Launch Sferical One Shared AI Supercomputer
AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Saab, SEB and Wallenberg Investments launched Sferical One, an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD of 16 GB300 systems, running since late summer.
DuckDB Posts Unaudited TPC-H SF1,000 Results for v2.0-dev on a Single NVIDIA Vera Socket
DuckDB published unaudited TPC-H SF1,000 results for a v2.0-dev preview on one NVIDIA Vera socket. Figures are DuckDB’s own, with NVIDIA’s help.
Adobe and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration to Speed Photoshop, Premiere, Frame.io and Brand Concierge
Adobe and NVIDIA say Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D are up to 2x faster on RTX Spark; Frame.io and Brand Concierge also optimised. Vendor claims.
VESSL AI Plans a Vera Rubin NVL72 Cluster in H1 2027 and 200,000 GPUs by 2030
Seoul Economic Daily and Edaily say VESSL AI plans a Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster in H1 2027 and 200,000 GPUs by 2030. Targets, not done deals.
Elon Musk Says Micron Has Been ‘Reasonable’ on Memory Prices While ‘Others Have Been Extortionate’
Elon Musk praised Micron on X and said "others have been extortionate" on memory prices. He did not name any other company.
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