Lenovo put an AI chip in a monitor, for some reason
AI is in everything! It’s in your phone, it’s in your car, it’s in your pico-projecting broach — wait, not that one. But now it’s also in your monitor, or at least Lenovo thinks it…
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Microsoft’s new Majorana 1 chip is a quantum computing breakthrough
After 17 years of research, Microsoft has finally developed the Majorana 1 chip, its first quantum computing processor based on a brand-new material and architecture, reports The Verge. At the heart of a quantum computer…
Chip tariffs will hit 25 percent by April, and then go even higher
President Donald Trump said that he expects the U.S. government to impose chip tariffs of 25 percent by April 2, adding to the woes of tech buyers already burdened by high prices. But that’s not…
Watch out, Nvidia. OpenAI’s proprietary AI chip is coming along
According to a new report from Reuters (spotted by Thurrott), OpenAI could finalize the design of its first 3nm AI chip in the coming months, with the goal of starting mass production at TSMC in…
Biden administration puts quotas on global AI chip sales
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow…
2-year-old chip? 5-year-old design? Here’s why the Mac Pro still reigns supreme
The Mac Pro has garnered staunch criticism from the crowd that would usually buy one–in most cases, it’s warranted. The Mac Studio is alarmingly good for much cheaper. I, too, bought into the critique of…
AMD blames HX3D chip shortages on Intel’s crappy chips
AMD’s world-beating 9800X3D chips destroyed the competition and promptly sold out. Why? David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of its Client Channel Business, and Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming solutions…
Apple is about to switch to its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip
Apple is getting ready to replace the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips in its products, currently supplied by Broadcom, with a chip of its own design. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the company has…
Apple is reportedly making an AI server chip with Broadcom’s help
The future of technology involves AI and Apple is doing what it can to be part of that future. To that end, a new report states that the company has a partnership in place to…
Google unveils ‘Willow’ quantum chip that smashes all modern records
Google just showed off Willow to the world, its mind-blowing quantum chip that absolutely destroyed an intensive benchmark. What would normally take today’s fastest supercomputers about 10 septillion years to complete — or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years…