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Chips & compute

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAustralian data center operator NextDC shares fall 40% after power backlash Forecasts slashed after community opposition stalls AI expansion plans

10.21

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanVietnam security ministry seeks Samsung's help on AI and chips Partnership underscores expanding technology ambitions of powerful police agency

10.21

Google Developers BlogLabsIntegrating TorchTPU into TorchTitan and Optimizing Models for TPU TorchTPU integrates a native torch.device("tpu") backend directly into PyTorch, allowing developers to train large-scale models on Google Cloud TPUs without rewriting code in JAX.

10.21

Axios TechnologyValley"I am giving you money!" Nvidia's CEO wants every country to build its own AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is crisscrossing Europe with a multibillion-dollar checkbook and a grand ambition: Make his company the indispensable backbone of the global AI economy.

10.21
Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg TechnologyValley(NVDA) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Speaks at GTC Berlin For inquiries related to this message please contact our support team and provide the reference ID below.

10.21

Wired AIValleyEurope Wants Data Centers. Its Climate Goals Are Getting in The Way A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.

10.21

llama.cpp releasesToolsb11786 ggml-cpu : compute f32 gelu_quick and geglu_quick without the fp16 table ( #30737 ) ggml-cpu : compute f32 gelu_quick and geglu_quick without the fp16 table ggml-cpu : keep the GGML_GELU_QUICK_FP16…

10.21

TechNodeAsiaDeepSeek open-sources inference framework with support for Nvidia and Huawei chips DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its large-scale model services, on October 20.

10.21

ITmedia AI+Japan日立がGPU冷却用コールドプレート開発、独自のU字構造で消費電力を約30%削減 日立製作所は、冷却水をGPUの発熱部へ直接届けてUターンさせる独自技術「U字トンネル流路」構造を採用したGPU冷却用コールドプレートを開発。冷却設備全体の消費電力を約30%削減する見込みだ。

10.21

EE TimesSiliconEdge AI MCU Features Multimodal Compute, Tiered Memory Microcontrollers, going through nonstop evolution, have reached their next inflection point: edge AI.

10.21

LobstersGitHubAnnouncing the GPU notification group and Linker Working Area Comments

10.21

SemiEngineeringSiliconScaling Data Movement For Physical AI Physical AI poses a host of new challenges for chip engineers. These systems contain a mix of compute elements, which collectively must process a stream of real-time data, analyze it, make decisions…

10.21
Financial Times Tech

Financial Times TechEuropeAustralian data centre group falls 44% on profit warning NextDC plunge adds to sector woes as Nvidia holds talks over injecting capital into Firmus after failed IPO

10.21

SCMP TechAsiaNvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over whether the massive artificial intelligence…

10.21
Financial Times Tech

Financial Times TechEuropeNscale boss seeks to reassure staff amid AI market fears Founder Josh Payne says demand remains ‘insatiable’ for the services of Nvidia-backed data centre group

10.21

SiftedEuropeExclusive: Photon Bridge raises €10m to build laser devices that connect AI chips The Dutch startup says its laser technology can be manufactured at scale to meet the demands of fast-growing AI infrastructure

10.21

InfoQ AIGitHubTornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads From Java Applications TornadoVM, an open-source heterogeneous programming framework for Java has reached version 7.0. It automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs and provides a rich GPU…

10.21

SiliconANGLEValleyGoogle unveils TorchTPU in a push to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called…

10.21

SK hynix NewsroomSilicon[AI Ecosystem] The semiconductor paradigm shifts toward memory

10.21

SK hynix NewsroomSilicon[AI Ecosystem] The semiconductor paradigm shifts toward memory

10.21
The Information

The InformationValleyNvidia Moves to Back GPU Cloud Provider Firmus After Investors Balk at Its IPO Nvidia is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Australian AI cloud provider Firmus, which abruptly pulled its initial public offering early this month, according to people familiar…

10.20

PhoronixSiliconCOSMIC Epoch 1.11 Released With Wayland xdg-dialog-v1, Better Multi-GPU Handling System76 developers just released COSMIC Epoch 1.11 as the newest point release to their Rust-written open-source desktop environment catering to their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

10.20

Latent SpaceVoicesThe Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute This was recorded on the sidelines of the new Compute Trading track at AIE NYC . Catch us next at AIE CODE , our last flagship for the top agentic engineers in the world.

10.20

Hugging Face BlogLabsNVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation Picture moving the Cadiere grasper, grasping the gallbladder, and lifting it, all within a generated surgical scene that responds in real time.

10.20