Vaidyanathan Subramaniam / Notebookcheck:
Q&A with Intel VP Robert Hallock on the upcoming Lunar Lake chips, Intel using TSMC nodes, and how the Arm vs. x86 power debates are based on a false premise — With Lunar Lake all set to officially launch ahead of IFA 2024 next month, NotebookCheck had an email chat with Intel’s Robert Hallock …
How Nvidia is racing to build the staff and offices needed to respond to scrutiny by the US, UK, EU, and China; the company controls 90% of the AI chip market (New York Times)
New York Times:
How Nvidia is racing to build the staff and offices needed to respond to scrutiny by the US, UK, EU, and China; the company controls 90% of the AI chip market — With a 90 percent share of the A.I. chip market, the company is facing antitrust investigations into the possibility that it could lock in customers or hurt competitors.
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft’s loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft’s loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision — Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
The US awards South Korea’s SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
The US awards South Korea’s SK Hynix an initial $450M in grants and $500M in loans to build an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiana under the CHIPS Act — – Firm to get $450 million Chips Act grant, $500 million loan — Indiana facility focused on advanced packaging, research
The US NIST is set to publish three security algorithms, put out for comment in 2023, to protect data from quantum hacking, as the agency awaits the sign off (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
Michael Peel / Financial Times:
The US NIST is set to publish three security algorithms, put out for comment in 2023, to protect data from quantum hacking, as the agency awaits the sign off — Global authorities speed up focus on growing threat to traditional cryptography — The quest to shield the world’s digital data …
Riverlane, a Cambridge, UK-based maker of quantum error correction tech, raised a $75M Series C led by Planet First Partners, sources say at a $400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Riverlane, a Cambridge, UK-based maker of quantum error correction tech, raised a $75M Series C led by Planet First Partners, sources say at a $400M valuation — Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real.
Mainframes are finding a new life in the AI era, as some banks, insurance providers, and airlines look to use them to run AI locally rather than in the cloud (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Mainframes are finding a new life in the AI era, as some banks, insurance providers, and airlines look to use them to run AI locally rather than in the cloud — Banks, insurance providers and airlines still find uses, including artificial intelligence, for the large computers that have been around for decades
Sources: Huawei, Baidu, and other Chinese tech companies have been stockpiling Samsung HBM chips since early 2024, in anticipation of US curbs on those chips (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: Huawei, Baidu, and other Chinese tech companies have been stockpiling Samsung HBM chips since early 2024, in anticipation of US curbs on those chips — Chinese tech giants including Huawei and Baidu (9888.HK) as well as startups are stockpiling high bandwidth memory (HBM) …
Samsung starts mass production of world’s thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it’s 9% thinner than typical LPDDR5X and improves devices’ heat resistance by 21.2% (Anton Shilov/Tom’s Hardware)
Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Samsung starts mass production of world’s thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it’s 9% thinner than typical LPDDR5X and improves devices’ heat resistance by 21.2% — The new package frees additional space. — Samsung has started mass production of the world’s thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
Apple and Mozilla will take a big hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021-2022, $510M out of $593M of Mozilla’s revenue came from its Google deal (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Apple and Mozilla will take a big hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021-2022, $510M out of $593M of Mozilla’s revenue came from its Google deal — “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.” — With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
