Author: ProHoster

NVIDIA prevents the development of translation layers to run CUDA on other platforms

Analysis of the legality of creating alternative implementations of CUDA technology, such as the recently published ZLUDA 3 package, which allows you to run CUDA applications on AMD GPUs, showed that starting with the release of CUDA Toolkit 11.5, NVIDIA added a clause to the user agreement (EULA) prohibiting reverse engineering, decompilation and disassembling any portions of the output generated by the CUDA toolkit for the purpose of broadcasting such output artifacts […]

NASA may refuse to deliver Martian soil samples to Earth

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Inspector General, the agency's auditor, found that the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program to return soil samples from Mars faced serious difficulties in the development phase, let alone implementation. . Three spacecraft are being developed for the MSR program and all of them are still far from […]

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 […]