Qualcomm slays the 64-bit ghost. Qualcomm has slain the ghost of 64-bit computing by returning to custom CPUs in smartphones with a big leap in performance that will have competitors working harder to beat the new benchmark. Qualcomm held the first day of its Snapdragon Summit where announced the migration of its custom Oryon CPU core to mobile and hinted...
A potential benefit of hardship. China’s lack of cutting-edge silicon and limited amounts of cash to spend on compute is forcing it to innovate in ways that may allow it to compete very effectively with AI especially when it comes to cost. The prevailing view in Silicon Valley is that the bigger the models become and the more data that...
The Chinese are no longer stockpiling. The combination of economic-related delays and China realising that stockpiling ASML equipment ahead of further bans might not help them very much has caused ASML to lower its outlook for 2025 resulting in a large correction. ASML reported good results but the outlook for FY 2025 has been taken down, which caused the...
AI is the icing on the cake for nuclear and geothermal. The huge build-out of data centres to train and run AI algorithms is raising concerns about where the electricity to power these centres is going to come from and it is becoming clear that the only carbon-free sources that make sense for this use case are either nuclear or...
Still no sign of reasoning. Apple has stuck the knife into the idea that large language models (LLMs) can reason with a research paper demonstrating LLMs making the sorts of mistakes that a small child or a pocket calculator would never make. The research paper (see here) and the X thread (see here) that summarises the findings in a more...
Great visuals, no content. When the highlight of the show is wondering if it was a Cybercab malfunction that caused Mr Musk to start the show nearly an hour late, you know that not much happened. Tesla held its We, Robot event where Mr Musk spoke for about 20 minutes, said almost nothing that had not been said before, and...
OpenAI wants to have its cake and eat it. What was going to become a for-profit entity subject to all the forces that hone companies into efficient cash printing machines that benefit their shareholders and employees will now be a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that will give OpenAI extra space to shield management from the consequences of its bad...
Things might look very different in 3-4 years. However the legal games play out, Google is not going to be broken up any time soon and with market share loss in digital advertising and dislocation in the search market, Google is going to have a strong case for an appeal. Google is under assault on all fronts with its search...
Problems look temporary and create an opportunity Samsung has reported good results but made a rare apology to investors for its continued inability to catch up with its competitors in high bandwidth memory (HBM) which is critical for training large language models raising concerns that its dominance of memory may finally be flagging. This weakness has caused an exodus from...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit – Family Matters
Automotive joins the Oryon family. In what was an obvious move, Qualcomm has rolled the Oryon custom CPU into its automotive product offering that will give OEMs a greater opportunity to push back against the predations of the digital ecosystems on their livelihoods. Qualcomm has launched two new chipsets the Cockpit Elite (for infotainment) and Ride Elite (for ADAS) that...