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Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited — new memory format strikes a balance betwe

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Additionally, more local capacity could also reduce communication between accelerators. Conventional expert parallelism distributes experts across GPUs and requires all-to-all communication at every layer. OXMIQ claims t…

Hot Chips 2026: OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI ASIC unpacked — accelerator developed using AI achieves efficiency and throughput gains against power-hungry Blackwell

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To explain how it works, let us compare OpenAI’s and Nvidia’s approaches. Nvidia’s standard system-level decomposition is primarily two phases: prefill and decode. Prefill is generally compute-bound (which is why Nvidia …

SK hynix breaks ground on the first HBM plant in the US, bringing key AI component production to the States — says production starts in 2029

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SK hynix’s HBM production site in West Lafayette, Indiana, will specialize in advanced packaging, testing, and R&D of HBM. The facility is set to cost the company around $4 billion, which highlights its advanced technolo…

Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs,

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Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He\u2019s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he\u2019s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electron…

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

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The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…