Happy Saturday, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that covers the major stories in tech over the past several days. I feel inclined to begin this edition with a sobering note about the recent events in Israel and Gaza. It’s obviously impacted the tech ecosystem there, but from a purely humanistic … Read more
Canon, the Japanese firm well known for its cameras and printers, is ramping up efforts in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment space. Brian Ach | Getty Images Canon, the Japanese firm best known for its printers and cameras, launched a critical tool on Friday it says can help manufacture the most advanced semiconductors around. The latest … Read more
OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips. Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens. OpenAI is reportedly considering a number of strategies to advance … Read more
Nilay Patel, left, editor in chief of The Verge, and Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, speak at Vox Media’s Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Jerod Harris | Vox Media | Getty Images Microsoft technology chief Kevin Scott said on Wednesday that the company is … Read more
In an unmarked workplace constructing in Austin, Texas, two small rooms include a handful of Amazon workers designing two varieties of microchips for coaching and accelerating generative AI. These customized chips, Inferentia and Trainium, supply AWS prospects a substitute for coaching their giant language fashions on Nvidia GPUs, which have been getting troublesome and costly … Read more
Intel is releasing fixes for a processor vulnerability that impacts many fashions of its chips going again to 2015, together with some which are presently offered, the corporate revealed at present. The flaw doesn’t influence Intel’s newest processor generations. The vulnerability could possibly be exploited to bypass obstacles meant to maintain knowledge remoted, and due … Read more
Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, speaks in the course of the Computex Present in Taipei on Might 30, 2017. SAM YEH | AFP | Getty Pictures Nvidia’s highly effective semiconductors have taken on specific significance as their capability to gas synthetic intelligence has turn into more and more wanted. However their distinctive capability … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden and First Girl Jill Biden (L) greet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he arrives on the South Portico of the White Home in Washington, DC on June 21, 2023. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Photographs The U.S. and India are set to announce a slew of protection and know-how … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner holds the brand new iPhone 14 at an Apple occasion at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, September 7, 2022. Carlos Barria | Reuters Apple on Tuesday introduced a brand new multibillion-dollar take care of Broadcom to develop 5G radio frequency parts within the U.S. “We’re thrilled to make commitments that … Read more
Researchers on the Johannes Kepler College in Austria have been in a position to exchange unrecyclable plastic within the substrate of digital chips and batteries with the pores and skin of the Ganoderma lucidum species of mushroom Doris Danninger, Johannes Kepler College In the previous couple of years, mushrooms have develop into actually magical. They’ve … Read more