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Samsung to manufacture chips from AI chip startup Tenstorrent
3Oct By adminNo Comments
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Samsung to manufacture chips from AI chip startup Tenstorrent

[ad_1] Samsung's contract chip manufacturing arm picked up a new artificial intelligence chip customer, a Canadian startup called Tenstorrent, the company said on Monday.Tenstorrent is among a number of startups looking to challenge Nvidia, which dominates the market for AI chips. The company produces chips and intellectual property for data centers, but is also working on supplying other markets such as automotive. As part of the deal, Tenstorrent plans to use one of Samsung's advanced manufacturing processes, known as 4nm, to produce the chips. The Tenstorrent product manufactured by Samsung is a chiplet, and is designed to sit alongside other chiplets inside a single package. Neither company disclosed the value of the deal, or the quantity of chips to be manufactured.Some of Tenstorr...
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London’s aging power grid undermines British AI ambitions, Virtus Warns
24Jun By adminNo Comments
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London’s aging power grid undermines British AI ambitions, Virtus Warns

[ad_1] London's electricity system is struggling to add more data centers, deterring potential investment and undermining Britain's ambitions in technology like AI, a business has warned the UK energy regulator.“A combination of lack of immediate power combined with delays in future power is preventing us from growing our business within the southeast of England via the addition of new sites,” Virtus Data Centres Ltd.'s engineering director, Peter Betts, wrote. It's “preventing the region from reaping the benefits from future technological advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence, an area in which the UK wishes to become the global center of excellence.” Lack of power in the southeastern part of England has stalled about £500 million ($636 million) of investment in new data...
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