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TSMC shares hit 30-year high on AI boom

The publication of NVIDIA's quarterly report last month generated a new wave of interest in the shares of companies involved in the production of computing accelerators, which are used to build market-demanded artificial intelligence systems. TSMC shares started this week up 5,2% to their highest level since 1994. Image source: TSMC Source: 3dnews.ru

Samsung accelerates automation of chip production

Last year, as reported by DigiTimes, citing South Korean media, Samsung Electronics created a special division, the Digital Twin Task Force, which was designed to help achieve 100 percent automation of chip production by 2030. Acceleration of deliveries of equipment necessary for Samsung's needs suggests that this goal could be achieved several years earlier. Image source: Samsung ElectronicsSource: […]

Cloudflare open sourced Pingora, a toolkit for creating network services

Cloudflare announced the open source code of the Pingora framework, designed for developing secure, high-performance network services and programmable network systems in the Rust language. The framework has been well tested and is already used in high-load systems - a proxy built on its basis has been used in the Cloudflare content delivery network instead of nginx for more than a year and processes more than 40 million requests [...]

AMD was unable to implement HDMI 2.1 in open drivers due to HDMI Forum requirements

The HDMI Forum, which develops the specifications and test suite associated with the HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) data transfer interface, has prevented AMD from implementing support for the HDMI 2.1 specification in open drivers. It is noted that currently the creation of open implementations of HDMI 2.1 is impossible without violating the licensing requirements of the HDMI Forum. Changes to implement HDMI 2.1 support were developed […]

The European Court ordered the EU to compensate Qualcomm for legal costs of €785 thousand - the chipmaker demanded €12 million

The European Court of General Jurisdiction ordered the European Union to reimburse Qualcomm for part of the legal costs that the chipmaker incurred during the proceedings regarding the antitrust fine imposed by the European Commission. Previously, the processor developer won an appeal in this case. According to the court ruling, EU regulators must pay Qualcomm €785, which is not even a tenth of the €857,54 million that […]

Because of GDPR, companies are storing and processing less data because it is now more expensive.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted in the European Union has led to local companies storing and processing less information. According to the findings of the American National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), due to new rules governing the processing of confidential data, managing such information has become significantly more expensive, The Register reports. Regulations […]

New article: Computer of the month. Special issue: buying a mini-PC

Buying a mini-PC is a great option for those who need a full-fledged computer at home, but do not want to assemble the system themselves. In 2024, you will find many nettops whose functionality, performance, and affordability will appeal to many. Especially for this article, we studied dozens of offers, selecting the best, in our opinion, computers available for purchase here and now. Source: 3dnews.ru