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AIP supplier Ambiq Micro reveals technical details on Atomiq
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (76+ words) Figure 1. Ambiq's SPOT platform. (Source: Ambiq) Ambiq also created new foundation intellectual property blocks that support reliable operation at ultra-low voltages. Engineers validated the 12 nm SPOT platform on silicon within Ambiq Laboratories, establishing a key milestone toward the commercial deployment…...
Axelera secures $250M
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (152+ words) Record-breaking European chip funding round brings total to $450M. Axelera participates in the EU-funded DARE program, which supports the development of a European HPC stack. Within the project, Axelera is designing an AI accelerator chiplet intended for future HPC and AI…...
Q4’25 PC graphics AIB shipments decreased -4.4% from last quarter to 11 million units, with a CAGR to 2029 of -5.9%
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (346+ words) Data center GPU boards were up an average of 17.0% from last quarter. Jon Peddie Research has released its fourth-quarter 2025 Market Watch report focused on AIBs. High memory prices and tariffs are killing the AIB market According to a new research…...
Q4’25 PC GPU shipments decreased by -1.3% from last quarter, which is a prelude to the creep forward
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (421+ words) Data center GPUs were up an average of 17% from last quarter. Jon Peddie Research releases its fourth-quarter 2025 Market Watch Report. Jon Peddie Research reports the direct shipments and vendors" share growth for the global PC-based graphics processor unit (GPU) market....
Workstation volume shows robust gains in the fourth quarter of 2025
1+ week, 46+ min ago (123+ words) Long-term growth outlook remains solid, but not likely at Q4s pace. The global market for workstations grew by 12% in the fourth quarter, measured year over year. While the magnitude of gains is welcome for industry stakeholders, there are several caveats to…...
OK, no wedding, but can we still date?
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (173+ words) Let's swap tech and go steady. Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, and Rodrigo Liang, CEO of SambaNova, are old friends. (Source: Business Wire and JPR AI) Figure 1. SambaNova's RDUs. (Source: SambaNova) SambaNova's core product is the SN50, purpose-built for agentic inference…...
Happy birthday, GeForce 3
1+ week, 3+ day ago (384+ words) 25 years old and it can still run "Doom." David Kirk in Tokyo. I remember back in 2001, when Nvidia surprised us with a processing pipeline graphics controller they called a GPU'a graphics processing unit'and nothing in PC gaming was ever quite…...
Renesas joins the AI process club
1+ week, 5+ day ago (101+ words) Number 135 in JPR's list of AIP suppliers, welcome. Figure 1. Block diagram of Renesas' SoC. (Source: Renesas) What do we think? JPR maintains an updated database of AIP suppliers that is part of its'AI Processors Market Development report. The report is…...
AMD and Meta announce $60B, 6 GW AI partnership
1+ week, 5+ day ago (135+ words) Another circular deal, knotting together supplier and customer. AMD and Meta signed a definitive multi-year, multi-generation agreement to deploy up to 6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUs across Meta's global AI infrastructure'the second major supply pact that AMD has struck in…...
Could/should watermarking become part of AI neural net processors?
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (326+ words) It's a logical thing to add for traceability. The field of Neural Network Traceability offers a set of solutions to satisfy these dual requirements. This discipline provides a framework to ensure that a deployed neural network can be authentically traced…...