Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 AMD is pushing advanced packaging and chiplets to the limit with the launch of its Instinct MI300-series accelerators, part of a quest to close the gap with rival Nvidia in the AI arena and bolster its standing in the high performance computing (HPC) community.…

Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors Google has unveiled Gemini, its most powerful class of transformer-based models yet, which are capable of processing text, images, audio, and video. …

Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment Despite a huge surge in awareness over the last year, just 10 percent of organizations have adopted generative AI technology in production environments, according to a survey by Intel.…

What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? The world's richest man is begging for cash again, this time he'd like $1 billion for his recently formed AI outfit, with individual investors told to offer at least $2 million for a slice of the equity pie.…

Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Nvidia chief Jensen Huang reckons Huawei and Intel are potential challengers for the GPU-maker's crown in the AI accelerator space, and says it is working out a deal with the US to keep selling products to China.…

Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Google revealed a performance-optimized version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called the v5p designed to reduce the time commitment associated with training large language models.…

Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting from the moon's surface, a new study suggests.…

Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you Red Hat has suggested that if customers are worried about the impending end of life for CentOS 7, they might wish to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) via its Insights service.…

Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable A security vulnerability previously added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA), and included in reputable threat reports is now being formally rejected by infosec organizations.…

'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed NASA has revealed how a wiring mix-up resulted in a parachute problem on its otherwise successful OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.…

Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips The European Commission is entering 11th-hour negotiations to hammer out legislation governing the development and use of AI in time to retain its position as first mover on AI rules.…

Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support UK-based chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has netted £182 million ($229 million) in finance to expand production, after threatening to quit the country entirely earlier this year over lack of government support.…