Microsoft Unveils NVIDIA’s “Blackwell-Based” High-End Azure AI Compute Platform; HPC-Focused Azure AMD EPYC With HBM As Well

Microsoft announced some "serious" developments around its AI compute portfolio at the recent "Ignite" event, revealing NVIDIA's Blackwell integration with Azure and new AMD EPYC "Genoa" chips with custom HBM…

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Cerebras video shows AI writing code 75x faster than world's fastest AI GPU cloud — world's largest chip beats AWS's fastest in head-to-head comparison

Llama 3.1 405B runs at nearly a thousand tokens a second on Cerebras Inference, and took a quarter of a second to get the first token. Source

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Microsoft’s New “Windows 365 Link” Desktop PC Is Very Similar To The M4 Mac mini In Terms Of Design, But It Hardly Matches The Performance

Apple's new M4 Mac mini is a very promising upgrade over the last generation's M3 version, but the best part is its compact design and form factor. The M4 Mac…

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips

Qualcomm's Arm-based PC chips will skip the second generation, next-gen Snapdragon X processors will feature Oryon 3. Source

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Nvidia RTX 4050 could be the ‘Terminator GPU’ of this laptop generation that refuses to die when the RTX 5050 arrives

Nvidia may keep the RTX 4050 mobile when RTX 5000 laptop GPUs launchIt will sit at the bottom tier, below the Blackwell mobile graphics cardsWhat isn’t clear is if it’ll…

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US sanctions freeze Huawei's Ascend AI chips on older 7nm process node that's eight years behind TSMC, stalling progress until at least 2026

US-led export restrictions are taking a toll on Huawei's AI Ascend and Kirin chips - now stuck at 7nm until 2026. Source

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NVIDIA DLSS 3 Comes to STALKER 2, Improving Frame Rates By 2.4x on RTX 40 Series GPUs; Also Coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and More

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are among the latest titles that support NVIDIA DLSS 3 at launch, bringing considerable performance boosts on RTX 40 series…

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Valve’s Proton Experimental Update Integrates NVIDIA DLSS 3 & Various Enhancements For Games On Linux

The Valve Proton Experimental update adds NVIDIA DLSS 3 & fixes multiple bugs in Steam games on the Linux operating system. Proton Experimental update improves Proton 9.0-3, fixing game issues,…

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