OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: ChatGPT will ‘probably not’ replace Google as top search engine A U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on American AI competitiveness this morning stretched for more than three hours — long enough… Read More
AMD challenges Intel dominance in laptops with with new Ryzen 7 4000-series processors Laptop CPUs, especially for high-performance computers used in gaming and content creation, have long been the domain of Intel. Rival… Read More
Google’s Stadia leverages tech advances to bring the lucrative video-game market into the cloud After spending billions over the last few years to upgrade its cloud computing infrastructure, Google thinks it is ready to… Read More
Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows… Read More
Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads LAS VEGAS — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale… Read More
With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More
Congress wants to know how Big Tech managed the Meltdown/Spectre embargo period That didn’t take long: the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters… Read More
Microsoft stops distributing Meltdown/Spectre patches for AMD devices after fixes brick machines Microsoft has temporarily stopped distributing patches to computers and devices running AMD processors after acknowledging that its Windows security updates… Read More
These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More
PAX panelists: It won’t be long before people have virtual reality in their homes Virtual reality games and experiences were everywhere at PAX West this year, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows 10 set to launch in late July, says AMD CEO We knew Windows 10 was arriving this summer, but now there may be a more specific release date thanks to information from… Read More
AMD finally gets @AMD thanks to Seattle entrepreneur’s creative charity swap Advanced Micro Devices is a 44-year-old Silicon Valley semiconductor giant, best known by the initials AMD. It’s the brand you… Read More
AMD and ARM get cozy with security deal, industry group Chip maker AMD, holding its big software developer conference in Bellevue this week, announced a new partnership with ARM Holdings… Read More
Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on technology, creativity, and the need for ‘a bigger gun’ At a splashy launch event in Seattle tonight, chip-maker AMD introduced its new Accelerated Processing Units, or APUs, and brought… Read More
How it works: AMD’s new Accelerated Processing Unit Here’s one for the silicon geeks. At a conference in Bellevue this morning, AMD introduced its new Fusion A-Series Accelerated Processing… Read More
