The classic $599 Mac Mini is no longer available. Apple has discontinued the entry-level model, and the new starting price is now $799 for a version with 512GB of storage. This change isn’t about product strategy but is driven by a global shortage of DRAM and memory chips, caused by the massive demand from AI
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The United States has taken steps to ban the most advanced Chinese-made drones, especially those from DJI, which dominates the American market. Despite this move, the country is still struggling to produce its own high-end drones at scale. Most of the critical drone components are controlled by China, creating a major supply chain challenge for
As artificial intelligence shifts focus from training models to using them in real-world applications, AI chip startups are finding new opportunities. The game is changing quickly, and smaller companies see a chance to stand out by specializing in inference, the process of making predictions with trained models. This shift could give these startups a second
AI chipmaker Cerebras is planning a big move back into the public markets with a potential IPO valued at up to $4 billion. The company, known for making some of the largest silicon chips in the world, is aiming for a valuation of around $40 billion. This comes after a setback last year due to
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When a company with just $15.5 million in annual revenue suddenly debuts on the stock market and its value skyrockets to over $10 billion, it catches everyone’s attention. That’s what happened with Lightelligence, a Shanghai-based photonics chipmaker that went public in Hong Kong. On its first day, its share price jumped nearly 400%, showing strong
Meta is stepping up its efforts to boost AI capabilities by forming a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The deal will see Meta deploying tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 cores, a type of CPU designed for high-performance workloads. Each Graviton5 chip packs 192 cores, and Meta plans to expand this deployment as
Meta is ramping up its AI infrastructure with a new deal to deploy millions of AWS Graviton5 cores. This move boosts Meta’s ability to handle complex, agentic AI workloads and signals a focus on balancing scale with system control. The partnership will see “tens of millions” of these chips integrated into Meta’s AI projects, including
At the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA revealed their latest hardware plans designed to make AI inference more affordable at large scales. They showcased new A5X bare-metal instances built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. This joint effort combines hardware and software design to slash inference costs significantly while boosting processing
Syenta, an Australian company developing new ways to connect chips inside AI systems, has secured $26 million in a Series A funding round. The company was founded by Dr. Jekaterina Viktorova and grew out of research at the Australian National University. Its technology aims to solve a growing problem in AI: the bottleneck that occurs
Apple Silicon is on the verge of a major leap forward. The company is likely to be the first to incorporate revolutionary chips at the 1.4- and 1-nanometer scale. If successful, this will keep Macs, iPhones, and iPads ahead of the competition in performance and energy efficiency. Experts believe TSMC is working on developing these
