Amazon Moves to Sell Its AI Chips to Rival Data Centers, Eyes $50B Market
TechCrunch AI39 days agoBusinessAWS is exploring selling its proprietary AI chips directly to third-party data centers, a move that would put Amazon in more direct competition with Nvidia in the AI hardware market. CEO Andy Jassy has publicly framed this as a $50 billion business opportunity for the company. The shift signals Amazon's intent to monetize its in-house chip development well beyond its own cloud infrastructure.
Mistral AI and NVIDIA Partner to Accelerate Open Frontier Models
Mistral AI News40 days agoBusinessMistral AI and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development of open frontier AI models. The collaboration brings together Mistral's expertise in building high-performance open-weight models with NVIDIA's leading GPU hardware and AI infrastructure. This deal signals growing industry momentum around open-model development backed by major hardware players.
Midjourney Medical Goes From Generating 'Cat Images' to Full-Body Ultrasound Scans
The Verge AI40 days agoHardwareMidjourney CEO David Holz unveiled The Midjourney Scanner, the company's first physical product — an ultrasound full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical body images. The announcement marks a dramatic pivot from AI-generated imagery to medical hardware. Holz also revealed plans to open a San Francisco spa as the device's initial deployment venue.
GMKtec Announces EVO-X3 Mini PC, Teases 192GB Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 "Strix Halo" Monster★ 78
r/LocalLLaMA top day50 days agoHardwareGMKtec has announced its EVO-X3 mini PC with upgraded I/O, including OCuLink and Wi-Fi 7. More importantly for local AI enthusiasts, the company teased a future model powered by AMD's flagship "Strix Halo" Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 APU. This upcoming monster will support up to 192GB of LPDDR5X memory, offering a highly anticipated, cost-effective alternative to Apple Silicon for running large local LLMs.
End of an Era for Budget LLM Rigs: User's X99 Motherboard Dies
r/LocalLLaMA top day50 days agoHardwareA popular Reddit post on r/LocalLLaMA highlights a user's X99 motherboard finally dying. The Intel X99 platform, paired with cheap recycled Xeon CPUs, has long been a legendary budget choice for running local LLMs with multiple GPUs. The post triggered a wave of nostalgic "F" comments, marking the gradual end of these classic DIY budget rigs.
Clustering 3x Jetson Nano Orin Supers for Distributed AI
r/LocalLLaMA top day51 days agoTutorialA developer has shared a practical guide on clustering three NVIDIA Jetson Nano Orin Super boards, leveraging their Ampere CUDA cores and unified memory. This project is part of 'smolcluster,' an initiative to make distributed AI training and inference accessible using everyday hardware like Macs, Raspberry Pis, and Jetsons. The series aims to explore whether heterogeneous clusters (mixing different hardware architectures) can effectively run local LLMs.
Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
Hacker News (AI keywords)51 days agoHardwareBased only on the title, Nvidia appears to be proposing a high-end CPU system for Windows PCs. That could signal deeper ambitions beyond GPUs and AI accelerators into the core PC platform. However, no article text is available, so the architecture, specs, partners, timing, and product positioning remain unconfirmed.
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
TechCrunch AI53 days agoHardwareHello Robot has released Stretch 4, the fourth generation of its home assistance robot. The company is taking a cautious, deployment-first approach, using a wheeled base, telescoping arm, sensors, and human-in-the-loop control rather than promising a general-purpose humanoid. TechCrunch frames Stretch as a practical bet on real household data, assistive use cases, and safer hardware for people with mobility challenges.
Jensen Huang Calls Marvell the Next Trillion-Dollar Company at Computex
INSIDE 硬塞 AI56 days agoHardwareAt Computex, Marvell argued that connectivity is becoming a key bottleneck for AI infrastructure as systems scale. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang appeared at the event and described Marvell as the next trillion-dollar company. The presentation highlighted Marvell's AI connectivity stack, reflecting growing industry attention on the links supporting large-scale AI systems.
Tohoku University Breakthrough: Secondary Phase Engineering Solves Solid-State Magnesium Battery Bottleneck
INSIDE 硬塞 AI63 days agoHardwareResearchers at Tohoku University have developed a novel magnesium-tin (Mg-Sn) alloy anode for solid-state magnesium batteries. By utilizing "secondary phase engineering," they turned detrimental interfacial reactions into an advantage. This breakthrough extends the battery's cycle life by over 400 times, achieving stable operation for more than 1,300 hours.
From $2 to $760B: The Two Strategic Bets That Fueled Lisa Su's AMD Turnaround
INSIDE 硬塞 AI64 days agoBusinessWhen Lisa Su became AMD's CEO in 2014, the company was near bankruptcy with a $2 stock price. She turned it around through two critical bets: transitioning advanced manufacturing entirely to TSMC, and pioneering the modular "Chiplet" architecture. These strategic moves allowed AMD to leapfrog Intel in performance and efficiency, driving its market cap past $760 billion.
European EVs Charge in 11 Mins, But Taiwan's Infrastructure Faces Plug & Speed Gaps
INSIDE 硬塞 AI64 days agoHardwareWhile next-generation EVs can achieve an 11-minute ultra-fast charge, Taiwan's infrastructure lags behind. The country faces critical gaps including a shortage of high-power DC fast chargers, the complex integration of CCS1 and CCS2 standards, and highly uneven urban-rural coverage. These bottlenecks prevent local drivers from fully utilizing advanced EV charging capabilities.
Huawei Challenges TSMC with "τ Scaling Law" Aiming for Equivalent 1.4nm Chips by 2031★ 75
INSIDE 硬塞 AI64 days agoHardwareTo bypass US semiconductor equipment sanctions, Huawei has introduced the "τ (Tau) scaling law." Instead of physical transistor shrinking, this approach focuses on reducing signal propagation delay via design-level innovations like logic folding. Huawei aims to achieve performance equivalent to a 1.4nm node by 2031, challenging TSMC's lithography-centric dominance.
I Tried Amazon’s Bee Wearable and Am Both Intrigued and Slightly Creeped Out
TechCrunch AI64 days agoHardwareTechCrunch reviewed Amazon's new "Bee" AI wearable, highlighting its potential for seamless ambient computing. While the device offers impressive convenience by constantly listening and assisting, it also triggers significant privacy concerns. Like previous AI pins and pendants, Bee forces users to balance the benefits of an always-on assistant against the anxiety of constant surveillance.
AI 搶佔晶圓產能！高頻寬記憶體（HBM）擠壓效應正推升消費性電子與平價手機價格★ 75
Simon Willison's Weblog66 days agoBusinessWell-known tech blogger Simon Willison recently shared and recommended an article by David Oks that provides an in-depth analysis of how the AI boom is…
三星半導體員工達成協議：今年可望獲得平均 34 萬美元的巨額獎金
The Verge AI67 days agoBusinessAccording to the latest reports from foreign media, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has reached a preliminary settlement agreement with employees…
川普政府斥資 20 億美元入股 9 家量子運算公司，IBM 獲 10 億建立美國首座量子晶片代工廠★ 75
INSIDE 硬塞 AI67 days agoBusinessThe U.S. government recently announced that it will allocate $2 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act to directly invest in and fund nine domestic quantum…
AI 進入推論時代！AMD 蘇姿丰看好 CPU 市場年增 35%，架構將趨向「1:1」★ 75
INSIDE 硬塞 AI67 days agoOpinionAMD CEO Lisa Su recently shared her latest views on the AI hardware market, pointing out that the AI industry is approaching a critical inflection point…
Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
Hacker News (AI keywords)67 days agoHardwareFirefox is promoting a browser-based workflow for Adafruit users through Web Serial. The page says users can connect, code, and control compatible hardware devices from supported web tools without a separate desktop app. It points toward CircuitPython workflows and open web tooling, but it does not describe any AI model, benchmark, or generative AI feature.
Polyend 推出首款 AI 吉他效果器 Endless，讓樂手能「自製」專屬音色效果
The Verge AI67 days agoReleasePolyend, the well-known music hardware manufacturer (previously known for launching unique music workstations and grooveboxes such as the Tracker), has…
神秘 AI 新創 Hark 完成 7 億美元 A 輪融資，打造「通用」AI 介面與專屬硬體★ 75
TechCrunch AI67 days agoBusinessThe mysterious AI startup Hark has announced the successful completion of a Series A funding round totaling $700 million (approximately NT$22 billion), capital…
黃仁勳預測 Nvidia 的下一個「全新」2000 億美元市場：用於 AI Agent 的 CPU★ 85
TechCrunch AI68 days agoBusinessNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has recently put forward a major market prediction, stating that Nvidia has its sights set on a brand-new market worth as much as $200…
Cerebras 迎來 600 億美元 IPO：起步緩慢，隨後一飛沖天★ 85
Latent Space73 days agoBusinessAI chip design unicorn Cerebras Systems officially entered its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) at a valuation of $60 billion. This company…
Import AI 444：LLM 社會學、華為用 AI 寫作業系統核心、晶片設計基準測試 ChipBench★ 75
Import AI (Jack Clark)168 days agoCommentaryThis edition of Import AI (Issue 444), written by Jack Clark, delves into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence across three domains: social…
探討全球算力格局的轉變：Hugging Face 剖析 AI 基礎設施的未來★ 75
Hugging Face Blog271 days agoOpinionAgainst the backdrop of explosive global growth in artificial intelligence, compute has become the core resource that determines technological competitiveness…
在 Intel Gaudi 上使用 TGI 加速大型語言模型（LLM）推理★ 75
Hugging Face Blog487 days agoReleaseHugging Face's official blog has announced that its widely adopted open-source large model inference framework, Text Generation Inference (TGI), now officially…
介紹 AMD 第 5 代 EPYC™ 處理器：Hugging Face 攜手 AMD 釋放 CPU 的 AI 推論潛能★ 75
Hugging Face Blog656 days agoReleaseAMD has officially launched its 5th-generation EPYC processor, codenamed "Turin," and Hugging Face has promptly published a blog post detailing the deep…
Hugging Face 深度整合 AMD Instinct MI300X GPU：開箱即用的開源 AI 效能優化★ 75
Hugging Face Blog798 days agoReleaseWith the explosive growth of generative AI, demand for high-performance GPUs has reached an unprecedented level. To break hardware monopolies and reduce AI…
使用 Intel Gaudi 2 與 Intel Xeon 建構高性價比的企業級 RAG 應用★ 70
Hugging Face Blog810 days agoTutorialAs enterprise demand for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology surges, how to maintain high performance while controlling hardware costs has become…
AMD 舉辦 Pervasive AI 開發者大賽！攜手 Hugging Face 推廣多元硬體 AI 應用
Hugging Face Blog895 days agoBusinessAMD and Hugging Face have jointly announced the "AMD Pervasive AI Developer Contest," a global competition designed to inspire developers worldwide to build…