Year: 2024
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Tesla Dojo Details Disclosed in 2022 Foreshadow Cautious Comments
Tesla Dojo aimed to liberate the company from Nvidia, but recent CEO comments show uncharacteristic restraint about the supercomputer program.
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Developers Can Finally Get Tenstorrent Grayskull
Four years ago, Tenstorrent promised a superior AI-processing (NPU) architecture. It’s finally offering dev boards with intriguingly modest power.
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Tick Tock, the Intel 5N4Y Plan Has Delivered Only One New Node
Intel affirms its ambitious five-nodes-in-four-years (5N4Y) plan, but it’s delivered only one new node so far, Intel 4, which has found limited use.
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Scaleway Lifts RISC-V to the Clouds
Targeting hobbyists and professional developers looking to experiment with RISC-V, French cloud-services provider Scaleway rents TH1520-based systems.
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Altera Rides Again
Intel is reviving the preacquisition name Altera for the soon-to-be-standalone PSG (FPGA/PLD) business Sandra Rivera will head.
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AI-Powered Vending Machine from Mars Stirs Up Controversy
Bad UI design led to an embedded system showing a conspicuous error message, kicking off controversy. Vending machines deployed by candy company Mars revealed they were using face recognition. The use of USB to connect the camera suggests that the design isn’t based on a so-called application processor, which usually have MIPI interfaces.