NXP deal still pending in China
Yet to be confirmed
A report that officially Beijing greenlighted the NXP deal has been questioned by Reuters which dismisses the confirmation and backs its up with multiple sources.
IBM steps up AI efforts
Digital brains boom coming
IBM is focusing its efforts on developing AI and cloud application solutions, seeking to explore immense application opportunities ranging from manufacturing, transportation, smart cities and healthcare.
Intel discrete graphics to arrive in 2020
SVP Raja Koduri confirms
Intel’s chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, ex. Radeon Technology guru Raja Koduri has confirmed on Twitter that its discrete graphics will come in 2020.
Big Navi 20 to arrive 2020 or later
Vega 64 real replacement
As Fudzilla reported a few times, Navi 10, the small Navi, manufactured on 7nm, is set to arrive at some point in 2019. There will be a big gaming GPU called Navi 20, but this one won’t come until 2020.
AMD shows Vega 7nm 32GB HBM2
RayTrace render demo
None other than Lisa Su, the fearless leader of AMD, has announced the Vega 7nm and just as Fudzilla reported a few months back this is a Radeon instinct only and it won’t make it to a gaming part. David Wang the SVP Engineering Radeon Technologies Group went into a few more details.
AI has the right to bear arms in US
Everything American must have the ability to shoot something
US artist Alexander Reben recently released a video of his latest piece, which is him asking Google Assistant to fire a gun. After all, everything in the US has the right to overwhelming firepower right?
Microsoft developing a tool to fix malfunctioning AI
Been watching Westworld
It appears that the software boffins at Microsoft have been watching Westworld and realised that they could have a problem on their hands if AI gets out of control.
Qualcomm inks a deal with Chinese Thundercomm
Bringing edge on-device AI to developers in China
Qualcomm was keen to mention the new deal with Thundercomm at its AI Day in Beijing, which will bring the new Qualcomm on-device artificial intelligence to developers in China.
Google might have faked its AI demo
And the moon landings never happened
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Google’s AI demo last week was a fake.
Pawsey supercomputer gets AI boost
Powered by Nvidia Volta working alongside AMD Opterons
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has given its cloud service Nimbus an artificial intelligence boost with some Nvidia Volta gear.