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Vivo has launched the Y600i in China at CNY 1,999 (about $300) for a single 6GB RAM and 256GB storage model. The phone combines an 8,000mAh battery and 44W charging with a 6.87-inch 120Hz LCD, a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chipset, a 50MP rear camera, and IP68 and IP69 protection, with sales starting on…
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Python, C/C++ und ein CPU-Simulator: Q.ANTs neues Open-Source-SDK bringt photonisches Computing ohne Spezialhardware auf den Laptop.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s advanced packaging technology, chip-on-wafer-on-substrate-L, or CoWoS-L, remains the dominant force in AI semiconductor packaging. But Korean chip substrate makers are already preparing for the next market shift. Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek are…
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Google has added 14 connected apps to Gemini, including Adobe, Peloton, Experian and Airtable. According to Google's own availability table, 10 of them work only in the US. Outside the US, just Adobe, monday.com and Wispr AI are available, and only in English. Disconnecting an app later does not…
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High-performance GPU tensor quantization and inference engine for AMD ROCm. Native AOT GEMV (K-Quants & I-Quants), State Space Model (SSM/DeltaNet) kernels, FP8 WMMA WaveAttention, and portable HIP C++ kernels for RDNA4, RDNA3, and CDNA.
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High-performance GPU tensor quantization and inference engine for AMD ROCm. Native AOT GEMV (K-Quants & I-Quants), State Space Model (SSM/DeltaNet) kernels, FP8 WMMA WaveAttention, and portable HIP C++ kernels for RDNA4, RDNA3, and CDNA.
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Citizen has launched two new two-tone automatics in the UK, the black NJ0226-56E and the blue NJ0224-51L, at £329 (~$435) each. Both are additions to the NJ022 series, with a 38.5 mm case, 100 m water resistance and Citizen's caliber 8210 automatic movement.
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The multi-year agreement is designed to support Anthropic's accelerating CPU workload demands by leveraging Akamai Cloud's distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure and specialised software suite.
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Dauerhafte Pulsmessung, S11-Chip und die Messung der persönlichen „Tagesform“: Wir haben geprüft, was das Watch-Update bringt – und ob es am Akku zehrt.
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The XLeRobot dual-arm cart adapter for quackd. Install it as quackd[xlerobot].
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The LeRobot SO-101 arm adapter for quackd. Install it as quackd[lerobot].
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Bluesfest Tours booked artists for the festival as well as other gigs, with acts including Erykah Badu and The Wailers secured for Australian dates. The post Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation six months after festival collapse appeared first on SmartCompany.
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Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk spricht seit langem von Rechenzentren im All. Jetzt offenbart ein anderes Tech-Schwergewicht konkrete Test-Pläne – mit Hilfe einer der Raketen von Musks Firma SpaceX. weiterlesen auf t3n.de
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Sony PS6 and Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, codenamed Helix, are reportedly nearing key hardware milestones, with leaked AMD RDNA 5 GPU specs suggesting 40 TFLOPS for PS6 and 56 TFLOPS for Xbox. Here’s what the reported specs could mean and why TFLOPS alone does not determine gaming performance.
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Control Resonant looks stunning on PC thanks to Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction, DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and more. Here are my thoughts after 30 hours of playing on a gaming PC.
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Read STDF V4 and V4-2007 semiconductor test data files, and convert them to JSON Lines
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Bihar-based Swadeza is building FORGE, an AI-native chip platform for verification, design and post-silicon engineering workflows.
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The Trump-Xi summit left rare-earth supplies among the unresolved issues in US-China economic relations, as the US and Japan confront uneven access to yttrium, a little-known rare-earth metal used in heat-resistant coatings for semiconductor manufacturing tools.
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Timex has launched the TWEG256SMU01 in India at ₹5,696, or about $59. The 43 mm quartz watch pairs a gunmetal brass case with a teal dial and a small seconds sub-dial at 6 o'clock, on a steel bracelet, with mineral glass and 30 m water resistance.
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Despite Prime Minister Andy Burnham telling the UN that the UK and US are working hand in glove on AI safety the US has told OpenAI and Anthropic not to […] The post UK blocked from pre-release access to US AI frontier models appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Terafab is either a massive chip fab being built by Elon Musk in Texas or a desk-top photolithography tool for prototyping devices (pictured above). No doubt Elon was surprised to […] The post Which is the real Terafab? appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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AI accelerators , HBM Integration, and Co-packaged optics are pushing higher performance packaging past $51 billion by 2031, says Yole. High-end performance packaging revenue has a 27% CAGR during 2025-2031. […] The post Advanced packaging to be a $51bn market by 2031 appeared first on Electronics…
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The UK has added 16 unicorns so far this year taking the country’s current total to 100 unicorns with 91 reaching unicorn status since 2017, according to Tracxn Technologies. This […] The post UK adds 16 Unicorns so far this year appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Mikroe, the click board specialist, has come up its Spatial Anchor S1 and Spatial Anchor R1 precise spatial accessory tracking modules for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Both are now shipping […] The post Spatial accessory trackers for Apple headsets appeared first on Electronics Weekly.