
AI is pants, claims Apple
If we can’t invent it no one can
While Apple is unable to get a decent AI product on the market, it has decided to invest in scientific research which claims the whole thing is pants anyway.

AMD launches Instinct MI325X Accelerator for AI workloads
With 256GB HBM3E memory and 2.6 PFLOPs of FP8 compute performance
At its Advancing AI event, AMD announced its newest Instinct MI300X series accelerator, the Instinct MI325X. The new AI accelerator is based on CDNA 3 architecture, packs 153 billion transistors, comes with 256GB of HBM3E memory on 16-Hi stacks with up to 6TB/s of memory bandwidth, and offering 2.6 PFLOPs or FP8 and 1.3 PFLOPs of FP16 performance.

Software engineers have two years to upskill
Or collect their P45s and pink slips
More than 80 per cent of the software engineering workforce will need to upskill by 2027, to keep pace with the growing demands of generative AI.

Google forcing better Gemini integration in WhatsApp
Part of its cunning plan to replace Google Assistant
Search engine outfit Google is working on making its Gemini AI project more tightly integrated with WhatsApp.

Samsung says sorry for the loses
About a billion short
Samsung has issued an unusual apology after announcing it expects to post just €6.78 billion in operating profit for the most recent quarter, falling approximately €900 million short of analyst expectations.

Super Micro Computer surprises Wall Street
Shipped more graphics processors than predicted
Super Micro Computer surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with the news that it is currently shipping more than 100,000 graphics processors per quarter and has unveiled a new suite of liquid cooling products.

BitEnergy boffins cut AI power by 95 per cent
All it needs is a special type of hardware
Boffins from BitEnergy AI have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a new method that they think can cut AI model power consumption by up to 95 per cent.

MediaTek releases Dimensity 9400 chipset
Based on TSMC’s 3nm process
MediaTek has lifted the kimono on its new Dimensity 9400 chipset, constructed on TSMC’s 3nm process, and featuring an All Big Core design

Qualcomm launches AI-powered wireless networking platform
Claims better faster Wi-fi 7
Qualcomm has just launched a new wireless networking platform run by an AI co-processor.

Samsung starts mass production of PM9E1 SSD
Claims industry's most powerful PC SSD for AI
Samsung has announced that it has started the mass production of the PM9E1, a PCIe 5.0 SSD. Based on 5nm controller and 8th Gen V-NAND, Samsung is promising industry's highest performance and largest capacity.