On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament announced the passage of the "AI Act," a landmark piece of legislation set to be implemented in phases starting in mid-2025.
Intel China chairperson and SVP Rui Wang told the Chinese media in an interview that with Intel's IDM 2.0 strategy in place, its China 2.0 strategy will also be implemented to face up to the keen competition in the AI era.
Kunlunxin, a spin-off of Baidu's chip and architecture department, has just received investments from Beijing's Municipal AI Industry Investment Fund. It is the sixth AI-related investment by the government fund.
At WWDC 2024, Apple officially announced "Apple Intelligence." In addition to offering a variety of cross-platform generative AI functions, one of the technical announcements that is the most distinct from its competitors is the so-called "Private Cloud Compute."
The Computex 2024 concluded successfully on June 7 with a blast. The organizer, Taipei Computer Association (TCA), stated that with the continuous global demand for AI computing and digital transformation, the four-day exhibition attracted 85,179 industry professionals from 160 countries and regions worldwide.
In the InnoVex Exploring the Future of AI Forum on June 5 during COMPUTEX 2024, three prominent figures—Dr. Ettikan K Karuppiah from Nvidia, Hamid Arabzadeh of Canadian silicon photonic firm RANOVUS Inc., and Albert Liu from Kneron—shared insights on the future of AI and their solutions to meet the demand of exponential growth in AI computing. Their discussions highlighted significant advancements and the transformative potential of AI across various industries.
PC industry players are eagerly anticipating the arrival of AI PCs to drive a new wave replacement cycle, with Microsoft defining specifications for AI PCs under the Copilot+ PC label that includes the integration of NPUs and chip capabilities reaching 40+ TOPS.
The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) is driving an urgent need for performance while grappling with high energy consumption.
Micron Technology has announced the sampling of its next-generation GDDR7 graphics memory, which it says boasts the industry's highest bit density for AI, gaming, and high-performance computing workloads.
Elon Musk's xAI plans to develop a new facility in Memphis to house a giant supercomputer, a move by the artificial intelligence startup to boost its capacity in the race to build and offer chatbots and other AI-powered tools.
Driven by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) fervor, semiconductor foundry utilization rates are recovering worldwide. Industry sources in South Korea say that the average global semiconductor foundry utilization rate has recently reached around 75%, and they are optimistic that the average utilization rate will exceed 80% in the second half of 2024.
Confidently taking the stage at Computex Taiwan 2024, "the heartland of the ecosystem," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger took a famous quote from Gordon Moore and added onto it by telling the audience, "Everything that has been done, will be outdone," and demonstrated the performance, power efficiency, and cost advantages of Intel's architectures and products in comparison to competitors.
Doing a keynote before the Computex starts and during the evening at Taiwan's top university stadium is something nobody had ever tried before. However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is determined to flex his muscles to steal the spotlight from competitors by announcing a new platform and AI PC wins ahead of the big event.
Skymizer, a prominent Taiwan-based AI system software provider known for its compiler optimization solutions, has announced the release of EdgeThought, its new software-hardware co-design AI ASIC IP.
AI compilers service provider, Skymizer has announced a strategic pivot by launching the ET2 LPU chip hardware IP and the Skymizer LLM System platform, entering the chip IP solutions market.
Nvidia's GB200 Superchips are about to be shipped. Liteon Technology has sent its AI server liquid cooling solution specifically designed for Nvidia GB200's 19-inch OCP racks for testing and certifying. The company estimates that the liquid cooling system may start contributing revenues in 2024.
Amid the tech giant's race to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has gone against the grain, asserting that Large Language Models (LLMs) can't reach human-level intelligence.
