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- Elon Musk's xAI raises $6B to build even more powerful AI supercomputers https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-raises-usd6-billion-to-build-even-more-powerful-ai-supercomputers-nvidia-amd-contribute-to-funding-round 0 comments
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- Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-terminates-x86s-initiative-unilateral-quest-to-de-bloat-x86-instruction-set-comes-to-an-end 332 comments
- Trump nominee favors ‘destroying TSMC’ fabs if China invades Taiwan — strategy designed to deprive China of key motivation to attack | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-nominee-favors-destroying-tsmc-fabs-if-china-invades-taiwan-strategy-would-deprive-china-of-a-key-motivation-to-attack-but-devastate-world-economy 1 comment
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- Undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia experiences outage — capacity reduced to 35% as Finnish authorities investigate | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/undersea-power-cable-connecting-finland-and-estonia-experiences-outage-capacity-reduced-to-35-percent-as-finnish-authorities-investigate 273 comments
- ASML CEO says China is 10 to 15 years behind in chipmaking capabilities | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/asml-ceo-says-china-is-10-to-15-years-behind-in-chipmaking-capabilities 214 comments
- Vendors push Intel's promised performance-boosting firmware for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — 0x114 beta BIOS updates coupled with the new CSME version 1854v2.2 | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/vendors-push-intels-promised-performance-boosting-firmware-for-intel-arrow-lake-cpus-0x114-beta-bios-updates-coupled-with-the-new-csme-version-1854v2-2 22 comments
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 allegedly sport 16GB and 12GB of GDDR7 memory, respectively — Up to 8960 CUDA cores, 256-bit memory bus, and 300W TDP | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-rtx-5070-ti-and-rtx-5070-allegedly-sport-16gb-and-12gb-of-gddr7-memory-respectively-up-to-8960-cuda-cores-256-bit-memory-bus-and-300w-tdp 20 comments
- Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-next-gen-b300-gpus-have-1-400w-tdp-deliver-50-percent-more-ai-horsepower-report 10 comments
- Elon Musk's xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/elon-musks-xai-lands-billions-in-new-cash-to-fuel-ai-ambitions/ 0 comments
- Lenovo ThinkBook Plus with rollable screen leaks out — display expands from 14- to 16.7-inches with a user keystoke or gesture | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-with-rollable-screen-leaks-out-display-expands-from-14-to-16-7-inches-with-a-user-keystoke-or-gesture 0 comments
- Russian firm starts shipments of AI systems based on homegrown CPUs, but can't avoid using foreign GPUs | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/russian-firm-starts-shipments-of-hpc-system-based-on-homegrown-cpu-but-cannot-really-avoid-using-a-foreign-gpu 0 comments