Ben Funk

The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come out of left field, but the technology upon which they are built is a known commodity: the Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer architecture, which has expanded into multiple chips.  Back at CES, NVIDIA announced Project DIGITS, its

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 SiFive’s latest development kit makes it easy to develop optimized software for the RISC-V platform, on real RISC-V hardware, while sporting lots of IO. Fastest RISC-V cores available for the edge Plenty of external and internal IO Standard form factor Multiple OS options Mesa driver available for graphics cards Overall performance is still sluggish Software ecosystem is still immature and missing big apps PCIe slot only has x4 connectivity Pricy compared

When Apple released a slew of MacBook Pros and some of the neglected Mac desktop line on the M4 generation of silicon last fall, one odd exclusion was the MacBook Air. It’s Cupertino’s most popular notebook, by the company’s own metrics, and its continued existence with M2 and M3 versions was a head-scratcher. Well, the itch is finally gone as of today: Apple has announced the MacBook Air with M4 silicon, and the price is

Apple recently put its budget-minded iPhone SE lineup out to pasture while simultaneously increasing the cost floor of its historically $429 entry level smartphone lineup to a loftier $599 price point. The new baseline is the iPhone 16e, and it also marks the first time an iPhone has hit the market with the company’s own 5G modem technology. Of course we had to get our hands on one and put it through our own series of