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OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip developed with Broadcom reportedly slips to Q3 2026
OpenAI’s long-rumored $10 billion partnership with Broadcom is already showing cracks. The company is widely understood to be developing a custom chip designed specifically for OpenAI’s inference workloads, but according to individuals familiar with the matter, the project has “hit snags”: OpenAI wanted more power, sooner, than Broadcom could deliver, and an internal push to…
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Benchmarks: Qualcomm’s Upcoming Mobile Chip Tested
In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5—Qualcomm’s fastest mobile parts ever—are on the way. The company’s made some bold claims about performance, but of course, independent benchmarks will tell the full…
Inside India’s Big Push To Join Global Chip Race
– Advertisement – From powering smartphones to enabling AI, semiconductors drive the modern economy, and India is racing to build a resilient chip ecosystem to join the global leaders. What lies ahead despite challenges? Semiconductors, or chips, are tiny electronic devices with millions or billions of transistors that process data and manage electric currents. Key…
Dead RTX 5090 with a cracked PCB gets urgent surgery from repair wizard — tech casually reballs the core, replaces a memory chip twice, and runs more wires across its traces than the NSA
A broken RTX 5090 recently landed on the desk of Northwest Repairs, run by “Tony” who also serves as the face of their chaotic YouTube channel. NorthWest specializes in semiconductor work, particularly GPUs that need to be brought back from the dead. So, when a PNY RTX 5090 came in with a cracked PCB and…
Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because ‘there are no customers’
Samsung is reportedly delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab, citing difficulties in securing customers for its output. Sources told Nikkei Asia that even if the South Korean chipmaker brings in the necessary equipment to produce chips at the new plant, the company cannot do anything with them due to the lack of demand….
The week in chip news: Nvidia’s GTC 2025 blitz, new NVMe HDDs and watercooled SSD, Intel’s restructuring begins
Nvidia’s GTC 2025, an annual event where the company lays out its roadmap of new products and vision for the coming year, created a flood of news as the company extended its roadmap out to a four-year horizon with plenty of mind-bendingly powerful new AI GPUs and systems. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also clarified the…
Apple’s spring 2025 part II: Computers, tablets, and a new chip, too
Another week, another suite of press release-only-announced products. With the exception of the yearly (and mid-year) in-person WWDC, will we ever see Apple do another live event? I digress. Some of what Apple’s rolled out (so far…it’s only Wednesday night as I write these words) this week was accurately prognosticated at the end of my…
Apple iPhone 16e review: An A18 chip and Apple Intelligence for $599 | TechCrunch
Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead, CEO Tim Cook tweeted out that new hardware was on the way, days before Apple announced the…
How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Research Published 26 September 2024 Authors Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world In 2020, we released a preprint introducing our novel reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts, which we later published in Nature and…
Apple Brings the M4 Chip Family to the iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro | Computer Hardware
Apple has concluded a three-day release of the first Macs to use the M4 chip family, which debuted earlier this year with the iPad Pro. The updated iMac and MacBook Pro retain the same industrial designs as in the past, while Apple took a shrink ray to the Mac mini. These are highly compelling Macs,…