AMD Radeon RX 7600 Specs Seemingly Leaked By Francisco Pires published 11 May 23 Specs for AMD's upcoming RX 7600 graphics card surfaced on twitter courtesy of renowned leaker momomo_us, shedding some light on the card's likely performance targets.
Quantinuum Injects Topology Into Ion-Chain Quantum Entanglement to Solve Quantum Computing Error Correction By Francisco Pires published 10 May 23 "The credible path to fault-tolerant quantum computing."
China's State-Sponsored AI Claims it Will Surpass ChatGPT by End of Year By Francisco Pires published 9 May 23 Also claims the "dawn of artificial general intelligence"
China Poured Nearly $2 Billion Into Its Own Semiconductor Industry Last Year By Francisco Pires published 8 May 23 Billions of dollars take some bite out of international sanctions.
U.S. Bitcoin Mining Consumed 50 Billion kWh of Energy in 2022 By Francisco Pires published 5 May 23 The White House's recently-published DAME tax proposal report brings to light estimates showing that national Bitcoin mining consumed more power than all of the United State's computers combined.
Backblaze: HDDs Tend to Fail Before Three Years of Operation By Francisco Pires published 4 May 23 Backblaze has poured through its HDD failure rates to find out exactly how long drives can be counted on for the company's cloud storage business, and the results are not what you might expect.
Gigabyte EEC Listing Confirms AMD RX 7600, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti Cards for Launch By Francisco Pires published 4 May 23 Dripping generational improvements onto midrange GPUs.
Single-GPU Systems Will Beat Quantum Computers for a While: Research By Francisco Pires published 3 May 23 Certain classical systems will reign supreme for a long time — and it's unclear how long
Scientists Develop GPT Model That Interprets Human Thoughts By Francisco Pires published 2 May 23 LLMs and Generative Pre-Trained Models aren't just here to stay - they're here to bring change.
MIT Engineers Grow Atomically Thin 2D Materials in Silicon Circuits By Francisco Pires published 1 May 23 Low-temperature approach may open new frontiers of performance scaling.
1,000 Cryptocurrency Tokens Met Their Demise in 2022 By Francisco Pires published 16 December 22 The number of listed and actively traded cryptocurrencies saw its strongest reduction ever this year, with around 1,000 different cryptocurrency tokens becoming barren lands of inactivity.
SpinQ Introduces Trio of Portable Quantum Computers By Francisco Pires published 15 December 22 Switch-Science and SpinQ have partnered in distributing portable quantum computers aimed at bridging the gap between the present and the future of quantum computing education efforts.
Backblaze Expects HDD Storage Costs to Hit One Cent per GB by 2025 By Francisco Pires published 13 December 22 Cloud storage specialist Backblaze expects pricing on Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage to maintain its downward trajectory, reaching one cent per GB by 2025.
U.S. Seizes Crypto "Pig Butchering" Scam Domains By Francisco Pires published 22 November 22 A US Court in Virginia's Eastern District has seized many domains being used for cryptocurrency fraud schemes of the "pig butchering" type.
Despite Chip Ban, U.S. Trails China in Published Research Papers By Francisco Pires published 22 November 22 The US has lost its position as the country with the most published research papers around chips and related technologies to its perceived threat in the geopolitical landscape: China.
MycelioTronics Wants to Create PCBs From Fungi By Francisco Pires published 18 November 22 A recipe for future electronics
The European Commission Wants Your Data Centers in Space By Francisco Pires published 16 November 22 As part of its Horizon Europe research project, the European Commission has set €2 million aside for feasibility studies on orbital data centers.
Standard Fiber Optic Tech Achieves Record 1.53 Petabit per Second Transmissions By Francisco Pires published 11 November 22 The entire world's internet traffic could fit inside a single fiber cable.
IBM Introduces 433 Qubit "Osprey" Quantum Processing Unit By Francisco Pires published 9 November 22 One more tick on the roadmap to quantum advantage.
Solidigm's 61 TB SSD Hopes to Vanquish HDDs By Francisco Pires published 8 November 22 Flexing NAND muscles in a decreasingly HDD-focused storage world.
Quantum Computing May be Bolstered by Liquid-Like Electrons By Francisco Pires published 28 October 22 Parafermions could lead to quantum computers with fewer errors and improved coherence.
One RTX 4090 Is Faster at Password Cracking Than Three 6900XTs, Eight 1080s By Francisco Pires published 25 October 22 The cost to crack passwords is plummeting.
U.S. May Include AI and Quantum Computing in Chinese Tech Ban By Francisco Pires published 21 October 22 Tightening the technological noose on national security grounds.
Intel CEO Announces Targeted Job Cuts in Wake of Lower Margins By Francisco Pires published 21 October 22 Promises more details for November 1st.
Intel Shares Potential Fix for High Idle Power Consumption on Arc GPUs By Francisco Pires published 18 October 22 Seeking parity with the competition
