April 9, 2024

Acer today is introducing a handful of new and upgraded gaming laptops sporting the latest generation CPU hardware from AMD and Intel, all of which come paired with discrete graphics from NVIDIA’s mobile GeForce RTX 40 series. There are four main laptop lines in all, which notably includes all-new 14-inch models within Acer’s Nitro and Predator Helios categories. Starting with the latter, the Predator Helios Neo 14 is being billed as a “portable AI gaming

Tech companies have unilaterally decided that generative AI is the next big thing, and vendors at every level of the supply chain are pouring billions of dollars into developing AI hardware and software. That obviously includes Intel, whose presentation today at its Intel Vision 2024 event was heavily focused on AI and the next-generation hardware platforms and software solutions that it will be offering to run it. We’re typically hardware-focused around these parts—it’s in the

I guess the Notepad built into Windows is fine, but it could be better. It could have more features, cleanliness, and could simply just be iterated on as an improvement. Thankfully, there is Notepad++, a free and open-source Notepad replacement and code editor, which has become incredibly popular. With this popularity, though, comes opportunistic people looking to make a buck off the name, which has since happened and been nuked from orbit by the Notepad++

Samsung is expected to be awarded more than $6 billion from the Biden administration and the US government’s huge CHIPS Act, to expand its chip output at its Taylor, Texas-based facility, and more. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES In a new report from Reuters, we’re to expect that the $6 billion+ subsidy will be unveiled by US Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo, with the funding to go into the construction of four facilities in

Arena is a developer of specialist AI foundation models, which today announced a collaboration to scale AMD’s development of Arena Atlas, the world’s first AI test and optimization product for the latest process node semiconductor technology. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Throughout 2023, AMD and Arena tested Atlas for AMD Radeon GPU testing and optimization, where they could quickly and autonomously identify power and performance optimizations, leaving AMD engineers to focus on other tasks,

We know SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk loves hardware as much as he loves AI, so it’s no surprise that he’s posting on X that Tesla has the second-highest H100 AI GPU count in the world. In a reply to @thetechbrother on X who posted that Meta has 350,000+ NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, with a bunch of other companies — including Tesla — and how many H100 AI GPUs they’ve got so far. Elon

The US government has just unlocked a further $11.6 billion in funding to TSMC for its leading-edge chip-making fabs on United States soil. 3 VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The Biden administration announced it’s signed a preliminary memorandum of terms with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that will include $6.6 billion in funding for new chip manufacturing plants. The US Department of Commerce has proposed $5 billion in loans to help set up the plants