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AMD on Monday announced its new artificial intelligence chips for everything from cutting-edge data centers to advanced laptops, ramping up its challenge to the runaway market leader Nvidia.

Demand has exploded in the past two years for the specialized processors that help develop, train and run AI applications such as ChatGPT.

AMD has emerged as one of Nvidia’s most serious contenders and CEO Lisa Su said the firm’s next-generation processors will rival the top offerings from competitors.

Researchers at the University of Colorado discovered a key technique that could lead to a smartphone battery that charges in a minute.

A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth.

The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than humans do.

If the DNA from one of the fern’s cells – which are just a fraction of a millimetre wide – were unravelled, it would stretch out to 106 metres (350 feet), scientists said in a new study.

AMD is releasing a chip later this year with 288 GB of cache on it! My high-end PC only has 256 GB of memory in total with only 0.0188 GB of cache on my main chip.

NVIDIA today announced the general availability of NVIDIA ACE generative AI microservices to accelerate the next wave of digital humans, as well as new generative AI breakthroughs coming soon to the platform.

Boeing and NASA said on Sunday that their teams are preparing to launch the new Starliner space capsule on June 5 after scrubbing its inaugural test flight launch attempt on Saturday.

The Starliner capsule had stood ready for blast-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday before a ground system computer triggered an automatic abort command that shut down the launch sequence.

NASA said its teams worked overnight to assess the ground support equipment at the launch pad that encountered issues during the countdown and identified an issue with a ground power supply within one of the chassis which provides power to a subset of computer cards controlling various system functions.

Nvidia Corp. has launched Rubin, its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chip platform, which will be available in 2026, according to CEO Jensen Huang. The announcement was made during a presentation at National Taiwan University in Taipei as part of the Computex trade fair.

Rubin platform to include advanced CPUs, GPUs, and networking chips.

The Rubin chip family will include new GPUs, CPUs, and networking processors. The new CPU, called Versa, will be geared to improve AI capabilities. The GPUs, which are critical for powering AI applications, will use next-generation high-bandwidth memory from industry giants including SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung. Despite the enthusiasm surrounding the introduction, Huang revealed only limited information regarding the Rubin platform’s specific features and capabilities.

Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more common than ring galaxies. At last, we know how these ultra-rare objects are made.

Old sunspot region AR 13,664, now renamed AR 13,697, is back. With its re-arrival, can we expect a resurgence of solar activity?