One thing that US politicians seem to agree on, despite a great many other differences, is that the country needs to lead technologically to maintain a position of economic and geopolitical preeminence. How to ensure such leadership will be a critical question for the next US president and his or her staff. The past two … Read more
We are all aware how important our diet is when it comes to our health. Regularly eating certain foods is known to increase your risk for things such as being obese or overweight, as well as having high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and fatty liver disease. Perhaps less known is the fact that … Read more
Nvidia has surged to new highs on the stock market in recent weeks, fueled by optimism about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). The chipmaker — which is a leading manufacturer of the graphic processing units (GPUs) typically used in AI — closed above $2 trillion for the first time Friday, making it the third … Read more
Wall Street indexes closed lower on Tuesday, with weakness in megacap growth companies such as Apple Inc and the chip sector weighing on the Nasdaq ahead of this week’s crop of economic data and remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Tuesday’s economic data was a mixed bag showing slower U.S. services industry growth in … Read more
If all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance of Nvidia. Ross is careful when discussing this. “Let’s be clear—they’re Goliath, and we’re David,” he says. “It would be very, very foolish to say that Nvidia is worried about us.” When asked about Groq, … Read more
Shares of Nvidia have surged this week after the chipmaker posted strong fourth quarter results earlier this week. Nvidia, a leading manufacturer of the graphics processing units (GPUs) typically used for artificial intelligence (AI) models, saw its shares jump 16 percent on Thursday and had climbed another 3 percent as of midmorning Friday. The surge … Read more
When veteran engineer and executive Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, the once-great chipmaker was in a slump. After failing to adapt to the mobile era and then missing several steps in cutting-edge microprocessor manufacturing, it was now also falling behind in supplying chips to feed the tech industryâs growing hunger for … Read more
Gina Raimondo, the US secretary of commerce, spoke at Intelâs event today and compared the US governmentâs current focus on revitalizing its chip industry to the space race of the 1960s. âThe fact that we are so overly dependent on a couple of countries in Asia that we need for life-saving medical equipment, cars, every … Read more
Even the cleverest, most cunning artificial intelligence algorithm will presumably have to obey the laws of silicon. Its capabilities will be constrained by the hardware that it’s running on. Some researchers are exploring ways to exploit that connection to limit the potential of AI systems to cause harm. The idea is to encode rules governing … Read more
The cost of making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI training has driven prices of the crucial components through the roof. OpenAI has said that training the algorithm that now powers ChatGPT cost the firm … Read more
