March 25, 2024

Hardware

Broadcom shows off absolutely gigantic AI chip, new XPU design for ‘consumer AI company’

Broadcom has been silently working on what appears to be one of the largest processors ever made, with 12 stacks of HBM memory, making this mystery XPU a bigger beast than NVIDIA’s just-announced Blackwell B200 AI GPU. In some new photos posted to X by our friend Patrick Moorhead, founder of top-ranked, technology analyst and advisory firm Moor Insights and Strategy. He snapped a photo with Frank Ostojic, who runs Broadcom’s custom silicon group, and

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Robotics

GTC 2024 and R-24 Recap – The Robot Report

The Robot Report editorial director Gene Demaitre recently returned from the international R-24 event in Odense Denmark March 13-15, 2024. From this trip, he immediately headed out to San Jose CA to attend the NVIDIA GTC24 event with senior editor, Mike Oitzman. In this episode, Gene and Mike talk about what Gene learned and what he saw during his visit to Odense. From there, the cohosts discuss their experience at the GTC24 event, and all

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Hardware

SK hynix plans $90 billion on ‘world’s largest mega fab complex’ fully complete in 2046

SK hynix has announced it has planned a mega fab complex called Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, which will begin construction in March 2025, with an estimated completion date in 2046… so we’re still a while away. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The South Korean giant has prepared at least $90 billion towards the project, which will see four separate fabbing facilities and would be one of — if not the — biggest fab complex on

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Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines | TechCrunch

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen could — if brought to market — help uncover medical treatments more cost effectively than traditional methods, the researchers behind it claimed in a January 2023 blog post. ProGen culminated in research published in the journal Nature Biotech showing that the AI could successfully create

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Robotics

Engineering household robots to have a little common sense

From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions that a human physically guides them through. It turns out that robots are excellent mimics. But unless engineers also program them to adjust to every possible bump and nudge, robots don’t necessarily know how to handle these situations, short of starting

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Maju Kuruvilla is out as CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt | TechCrunch

Maju Kuruvilla is no longer CEO of one-click checkout company Bolt. He is replaced by Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, who is now interim CEO, according to Grooms’ LinkedIn profile. Kuruvilla didn’t have much to say about the change but did confirm it both on LinkedIn and X, by posting, simply “One-Click Checkedout from @bolt! Onwards” with a rocket emoji. (He declined to comment further.) Arjun Sethi, a co-founder of the venture firm Tribe

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