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IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview SLM Has Been Released

Posted on 2025-05-03 Edited on 2025-06-24

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IBM has announced its preliminary version of Granite 4.0 Tiny, which is a 1B parameter model that is 10x smaller than the previous version. The new model is designed to be more efficient and faster than the previous version, and is available for download on the IBM website.

Intel Plans to Revive Through Cutting Workforce and Efficient Leadership

Posted on 2025-04-24 Edited on 2025-06-24

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Intel is planning to cut its workforce by 20% employees and restructure its leadership to focus on rebuilding the trust of shareholders who were unhappy after fourth straight quarter of decline in revenue by 3.4%

Synology Locks Out Owners of Plus Series NAS Against Using Non-Synology HDD/SSDs

Posted on 2025-04-24 Edited on 2025-06-24

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Last Week Synology issued an updated press release in EU stating they will be locking out owners of Plus Series NAS against using Non-Synology HDD/SSDs to ensure better reliability and performance.

Intel Adds 200S Boost Profile to Arrow Lake K Series CPUs

Posted on 2025-04-24 Edited on 2025-06-24

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Intel has added a new 200S boost profile to the Arrow Lake K series CPUs. This profile is designed to provide a balance between performance and power efficiency. The 200S boost profile is available for the K series CPUs such as Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 285K, Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 265K, Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 265KF,Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 245K and Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 245KF.

BioMenace: Resurrection Coming to Steam in Fall 2025

Posted on 2025-04-13 Edited on 2025-06-24

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Apogee Software has announced that BioMenace: Resurrection will be coming to Steam in Fall 2025 which will feature improved graphics, new levels, and more.

Samsung's 2nm GAA Nodes Passes 40% Yields

Posted on 2025-04-13 Edited on 2025-06-24

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According to South Korean Semiconductor Industry rumours, Samsung’s 2nm GAA node has passed 40% yields. They claim the 2nm node aka SF2 is in better position and seeing better yields than abandoned 3nm process node.

NVIDIA Open Sources PhysX and Flow With BSD-3 License

Posted on 2025-04-06 Edited on 2025-06-24

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NVIDIA has open sourced PhysX and Flow with a BSD-3 license. The entire source code is available on GitHub and they currently isn't any pre-built binaries as developers need to build it from source code to generate binaries.

MangoBoost Achieves Record Breaking MLPerf 5.0 Inference Results With AMD Instinct MI300X

Posted on 2025-04-05 Edited on 2025-06-24

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MangoBoost, a cutting edge systems solution provider, has achieved record breaking results in the MLPerf 5.0 Inference benchmark, utilizing AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. The results demonstrate the exceptional performance and efficiency of the AMD Instinct MI300X GPU, which is designed to deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for AI workloads. The said performance was, inference performance of Llama2-70B offline model.

Tenstorrent Launches BlackHole Dev Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day

Posted on 2025-04-05 Edited on 2025-06-24

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Tenstorrent, a leading provider of AI chips, has announced the launch of its BlackHole Dev products at the Tenstorrent Dev Day. The BlackHole Dev products are designed to provide developers with the tools and resources they need to build and deploy AI applications on Tenstorrent’s AI chips. The Dev event was in San Francisco featuring RISC-V processors optimized for AI applications.

German Retailer Sells Blackwell GPUs With Missing ROPs as B-Stocks (Refurb or Returned)

Posted on 2025-03-30 Edited on 2025-06-24

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A German retailer has listed RTX 50 series GPU with missing ROPs (Render Output Units) as B-Stocks (Refurb or Returned). Initial reports stated that there were performance deficits with lower ROPs and made it perform worse or equal than Ada GPUs which is the predecessor of Blackwell.