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The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024

December 29, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going…

November 19, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Machine learning chips that use analog circuits instead of digital ones have long promised huge energy savings. But in practice they’ve mostly delivered modest savings, and only for modest-sized neural networks. Silicon Valley startup Sageance says it has the technology to bring the promised power savings to tasks suited for…

November 13, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Dell and 13 other companies reported how long it takes their computers to train the key neural networks in use today. Among those results were the first glimpse of Nvidia’s next generation GPU, the B200, and Google’s upcoming accelerator, called Trillium. The B200 posted a doubling of…

October 2, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The majority of the world’s advanced logic chips are made in Taiwan, and most of those are made by one company: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). While it seems risky for companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Google to depend so much on one supplier, for Taiwan’s leaders, that’s a feature,…

September 16, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

It’s hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance. Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. But it’s the company’s AI chips, not PC graphics hardware, that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies. It…

28 Aug 24

AI Inference Competition Heats Up

Computer & Information Technology

While the dominance of Nvidia GPUs for AI training remains undisputed, we may be seeing early signs that, for AI inference, the competition is gaining on the tech giant, particularly in terms of power efficiency. The sheer performance of Nvidia’s new Blackwell chip, however, may be hard to beat. This…

June 12, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

For years, Nvidia has dominated many machine learning benchmarks, and now there are two more notches in its belt.MLPerf, the AI benchmarking suite sometimes called “the Olympics of machine learning,” has released a new set of training tests to help make more and better apples-to-apples comparisons between competing computer systems.…

May 24, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Over just the past couple of years, supercomputing has accelerated into the exascale era—with the world’s most massive machines capable of performing over a billion billion operations per second. But unless big efficiency improvements can intervene along its exponential growth curve, computing is also anticipated to require increasingly impractical and…

May 8, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Augmented-reality glasses can upgrade our view of the world with digital images and data. However, even industry titans such as Google and Microsoft have failed to devise augmented-reality headsets that aren’t bulky, cause headaches, or both. Now, with a combination of 3D holograms, artificial intelligence, and the kind of physics…

10 Apr 24

Intel’s Gaudi 3 Goes After Nvidia

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Although the race to power the massive ambitions of AI companies might seem like it’s all about Nvidia, there is a real competition going in AI accelerator chips. The latest example: At Intel’s Vision 2024 event this week in Phoenix, Az., the company gave the first architectural details of its…

The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024

Analog AI Startup Aims to Lower Gen AI’s Power Needs

Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training

Defending Taiwan With Chips and Drones

Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

AI Inference Competition Heats Up

Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests

Three New Supercomputers Reach Top of Green500 List

Augmented Reality Slims Down With AI and Holograms

Intel’s Gaudi 3 Goes After Nvidia

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law