Brain in a box goes on sale for $35k
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Cortical Labs ships synthetic brains to scientists with a taste for real-time wetware

An Aussie startup has stuck 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on a chip and called it a computer. Cortical Labs says its CL1 is the world’s first code-deployable biological machine, and it’s up for grabs at $35,000 a pop.

TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter
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All roads lead to TSMC

The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.

Mid-market firms having second thoughts about the cloud
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Node4 report suggests hybrid is the new black

Nearly all mid-market companies are eyeing a cloud exit, according to fresh research from Node4, with 97 per cent planning to shift some workloads off the public cloud in the next year.

Micron shows off "thinnest and fastest" mobile DRAM
Published in PC Hardware


1-gamma LPDDR5X claims big AI gains with better battery life

Micron has started shipping samples of its 1-gamma node-based LPDDR5X memory, which it claims is the world’s fastest and thinnest low-power DRAM designed for flagship smartphones.

RTX 5060 Ti steals AMD’s 9070 lunch money
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Steam gamers show more love for Nvidia’s cheaper cards

Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti has only been rattling around for six weeks but has already overtaken AMD’s shiny new RX 9070 series, at least according to Valve’s latest Steam hardware survey.