it now turned its attention to the other lever in its control: numerical aperture. That’s the measure of how much light a system can focus, and if ASML could increase it, the company’s
The regulation of open-source models is a complex policy question, with some arguing that even partially open models give too much power to “bad actors” and others claiming that the best countermeasure to malicious AI use is widespread access to AI technology itself. ...
But why does Ford feel it’s necessary to work with CATL to make EV batteries in the first place? The simple answer is that Chinese companies have managed to make good-quality batteries in large quantities and at a low cost. It will be commercially unviable to avoid using Chinese batteries...
The performance improvement is 20% here, not much to caveat here. MI300X is cheaper. H200 likely closes the gap. On to training. AMD shows a bit of weakness from their software stack here. They only achieves less than 30% of the theoretical FLOPS that MI300 is capabile. Meanwhile ...
Who came up with DeepSeek, and how much did it cost? Until January 2025, few people had heard of DeepSeek — the Chinese company's developments were of interest only to real industry enthusiasts. Although DeepSeek, an AI research company, was founded in Hangzhou back in 2023....
Chip shortages are forcing fabs and OSATs to maximize capacity and assess how much benefit AI and machine learning can provide. This is particularly important in light of the growth projections by market analysts. The chip manufacturing industry is expected to double in size over the next five ye...
“At some point we’re just going to have to agree what the test cases are that one needs to test against and do it that way,” Smith said. “The question will be, ‘Does that testing need to be done by an external organization? Or can people self-test and just document that they...
The regulation of open-source models is a complex policy question, with some arguing that even partially open models give too much power to “bad actors” and others claiming that the best countermeasure to malicious AI use is widespread access to AI technology itself. ...