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Windows on Arm Is Here to Stay

July 9, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

For the first time in history, there’s a good chance your next Windows laptop won’t have an x86 chip inside.Microsoft launched a new generation of AI-focused Windows laptops, called Copilot Plus PCs, in June of 2024. Controversy surrounding one of Microsoft’s key AI features made for a shaky debut, but…

May 23, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Buy any new Windows PC and you might notice an unfamiliar key: the Copilot key. Launched in January, it promised quick access to Microsoft’s AI Copilot. Yet features were limited, causing critics to wonder: is this it?Microsoft Build 2024, the company’s annual developer conference, had a reply: No. On 20…

28 Mar 24

Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s inferencing tests. Version 4.0 of the benchmark tests more than 8,500 results from 23 submitting organizations. As…

13 Mar 24

Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Sunnyvale, Calif., AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) contains 4 trillion transistors, a more than 50 percent increase over the previous generation…

27 Feb 24

Qualcomm’s Newest Chip Brings AI to Wi-Fi

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Wireless spectrum is always at a premium—if you’ve ever tried to connect to Wi-Fi in a crowded airport or stadium, you know the pain that comes from crowded spectrum use. That’s why the industry continues to tinker with ways to get the most out of available spectrum. The latest example:…

01 Dec 23

When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required.That was at least the vision recently laid out by Intel’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, at the company’s 2023 Intel Innovation summit. Flanked by on-stage demos, Gelsinger announced the coming of “AI PCs” built to accelerate…

09 Nov 23

Grown-up Arm Chips Look to Dethrone x86 in Laptops

Computer & Information Technology

Qualcomm is again coming for laptops—and this time, it means business. At the company’s October 2023 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X Elite, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a custom Arm architecture designed specifically for laptop PCs. The new chip is far from Qualcomm’s first attempt to upset the PC’s…

24 Jul 23

Meta’s Llama 2 Elbows Into a Still-Open Field

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last week, Meta introduced Llama 2, a new large language model with up to 70 billion parameters. The new generative AI system represents a spectacular shot across the bow of OpenAI, which shares few details about most AI models including GPT-3/3.5 and GPT-4. Llama 2’s release—with 40 percent of the…

Windows on Arm Is Here to Stay

The Latest Windows PCs Remember Everything

Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials

Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip

Qualcomm’s Newest Chip Brings AI to Wi-Fi

When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

Grown-up Arm Chips Look to Dethrone x86 in Laptops

Meta’s Llama 2 Elbows Into a Still-Open Field

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