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GlobalFoundries, Intel, TSMC and Samsung have already received guarantees from the US authorities to provide subsidies and preferential loans for the construction of new enterprises in the country that will produce chips by the end of this decade. Micron Technology is now next in line, and Bloomberg reports that an announcement will be made next week. Image source: Micron Technology Source: 3dnews.ru
The United States' closest northern neighbors intend to impose additional taxes on large American corporations operating in the Canadian market. From this year, it is proposed to tax them at the rate of 3% on revenue received from the provision of digital services. In particular, the activities of Alphabet and M**a Platforms in Canada will be subject to the terms of the new bill. Image source: Unspalsh, Olga DeLawrenceSource: 3dnews.ru
The open source video player MPV 0.38 was released in 2013, a fork from the code base of the MPlayer2 project. MPV focuses on developing new features without worrying about maintaining compatibility with MPlayer. The MPV code is licensed under LGPLv2.1+, some parts remain under GPLv2, but the transition to LGPL is almost complete and you can use […]
The European Commission said it would not investigate Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI because the latter does not report directly to Microsoft and is unlikely to be acquired by the Redmond company. In January, European antitrust regulators said they might launch an investigation into Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI. Image source: efes / pixabay.comSource: 3dnews.ru
The next generation of Stable Diffusion's text-based image-generating AI model has not yet been publicly launched, but is already available to some developers via an API and a new content creation and developer platform. To provide access to AI via API, Stability AI has teamed up with the Fireworks AI API platform. Image source: Stability AI Source: 3dnews.ru
Worried about the state of your motherboard PCIe slot under the weight of your two-kilogram video card? Do you hang it on ties or “collectively farm” a support? MSI has a solution for all occasions - the most functional and at the same time beautiful. The video card can also be installed vertically; for this purpose, the new MPG Gungnir 300R Airflow also has an interesting solutionSource: 3dnews.ru
On April 16, the release of 2.1.4 of the Lite XL text editor, written in C and Lua using the SDL2 and PCRE2 libraries, and distributed under the MIT license, took place. The editor is a significantly improved fork of the lite editor. In the new version: the .pyi extension has been added to the Python plugin; Added Arduino syntax highlighting to the C++ plugin; The keyword has been added to the JavaScript plugin [...]
Four years after its initial release, the PiKVM project is pleased to present release 3.333, codenamed It will (not) pass. PiKVM is a project that combines software and instructions that allow you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a fully functional KVM-over-IP. This device connects to the HDMI and USB ports of a server or workstation and allows you to remotely control them via […]
The wayland-protocols 1.35 package has been released, containing a set of protocols and extensions that complement the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the capabilities necessary for building composite servers and user environments. All protocols sequentially go through three phases - development, testing and stabilization. After completion of the development stage (category “unstable”), the protocol is placed in the “staging” branch and officially included in the […]
The release of the LXQt 2.0.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment), which continues the development of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects, has been presented. The LXQt interface follows the ideas of the classic desktop organization, but introduces modern design and techniques that increase ease of use. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast and convenient environment that incorporates the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is hosted on GitHub and supplied […]
Samsung announced the development of energy-efficient LPDDR5X DRAM, which has data transfer speeds of up to 10,7 Gbps per pin, which is the highest in the industry. Competitors cannot yet offer anything like this. Image source: SamsungSource: 3dnews.ru
Although Apple CEO Tim Cook's Asian tour this year began in China, the logic of further movements of the company's leader proved that it is ready to develop the presence of its contractors' production facilities in other countries in the region. After Vietnam, Cook went to Indonesia, telling the local president that he was ready to consider the possibility of localizing the production of Apple products in that […]