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Google has announced a $1 billion investment in a new UK data centre, sited in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. The 33-acre site “will bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK” says Google, “supporting AI innovation and helping to ensure reliable digital services to Google Cloud customers and Google users in the UK and abroad”. It will “create construction and ...

The 2024 AI server market—encompassing AI Training and AI Inference—is projected to exceed 1.6 million units, growing at 40%, says TrendForce. Edge AI applications are shifting toward AI PCs. This shift aims to decentralize AI server workloads and broaden the AI usage spectrum. TrendForce expects AI PCs to meet Microsoft’s benchmark of 40 TOPS in computational power. With new products ...

Aaeon is aiming at robotics with a mini-PC built around Intel’s Core i3-N305 or Processor N97 CPUs, “chosen due to their balance of power consumption and performance”, it said. “The platform provides the sensor data processing, integrated graphics and resources required for path planning and control algorithms needed to bring automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots to market.” Xtreme ...

Notebooks with  AI acceleration engines designed to efficiently manage workloads and power consumption, enhanced by Microsoft Windows 11’s Copilot, are a way to getting the notebook market growing again, says TrendForce. The initial target demographic for AI PCs includes high-end business users and content creators with a higher price point, while the lack of  compelling AI applications might initially limit ...

CES 2024 is being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada with an estimated 130,000 attendees and over 4,000 exhibitors, writes Semiconductor Intelligence. CES (previously Consumer Electronics Show) has been held in Las Vegas every year since 1978, except for 2021 due to COVID-19. CES is put on by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). CTA is 100 years old, beginning ...

Microsoft and the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have teamed up in a multi-year project to explore material science using AI and super-computing, and discovered a promising solid electrolyte for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries as a proof-of-concept. The multi-step process used to search for possible electrolytes reduced a list of 32 million inorganic materials to 18 in 80 hours, ...

Siemens and AWS are seeking to make it easier for businesses to build and scale GenAI applications by integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, with Mendix – part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. “By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratizing generative ...

Intel and  a group of investors including  DigitalBridge, Fin Capital, Mindset Ventures, Communitas Capital, GiantLeap Capital, GS Futures and Zain Group have formed Articul8 to  offer enterprise customers a full-stack, vertically-optimised and secure GenAI software platform. The platform delivers AI capabilities that keep customer data, training and inference within the enterprise security perimeter. The platform also provides customers the choice ...

Automotive is the most important revenue driver for the semiconductor industry, says a survey  by KPMG and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) because of the  computerisation and electrification of vehicles. AI came second Microprocessors (including GPUs used for AI) were ranked as the top product opportunity for industry growth over 2024 Implementing Gen AI was ranked among the top three ...

A range of COM Express modules released by congatec are based on the Intel Core Ultra processors, which integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) called Intel AI Boost. According to congatec, the conga-TC700 COM Express Compact Type 6 computer on modules (CoMs) can be used to integrate AI workloads with lower system complexity and costs than using discrete accelerators. c ...