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Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation
Applied Materials’ $5 billion EPIC Center brings chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and researchers together to accelerate semiconductor R&D and commercialization. The post Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation appeared first on EE Times.
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Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's…
EU CRA Readiness: 5 Steps Manufacturers Need to Take Now
Consumer, industrial, networking, semiconductor, and software manufacturers face a broad product-cybersecurity regulation for the first time. The post EU CRA Readiness: 5 Steps Manufacturers Need to Take Now appeared first on EE Times.
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Security Becomes a Sign-off Item
Europe’s CRA turns chip security into auditable sign-off, pushing silicon teams to prove resilience before 2027. The post Security Becomes a Sign-off Item appeared first on EE Times.
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Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most…
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DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a…
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Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft on Friday launched Microsoft-Decision-1 in Foundry, three days after OpenAI opened its Decisions API to every developer in public The post Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen appeared first on The New Stack.
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Connecting Chiplets Isn’t Enough – Solving the Data Movement Challenge in Multi-Die Systems
Join this BitCast and explore how extending NoC connectivity across die boundaries enables engineering teams to scale from monolithic SoCs to multi-die architectures. The post Connecting Chiplets Isn’t Enough – Solving the Data Movement Challenge in Multi-Die Systems appeared first…
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Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs.
Running applications in production means maintaining an “always-on” posture through disruptions. Infrastructure fails; dependencies slow down, and networks partition, not The post Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs. appeared first on The…