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Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidi

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The source didn’t name the chip supplier, but Z.ai’s recent training history points to Huawei. The company released GLM-5.2 in June , an open-weight model purportedly trained entirely on Huawei Ascend accelerators with n…

Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated libr

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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…

Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of ver

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The custom Instinct MI455X for Meta will carry 144GB of HBM4 memory using six 8-Hi packages, whereas the full-blown Instinct MI455X will be equipped with 432 GB of HBM4 memory, according to SemiAnalysis . In addition, th…

SMIC’s third-gen 7nm node shows smaller metal pitch than Intel 18A, higher transistor density than TSMC N6 without EUV — analysis of N+3 shows significant advan

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SemiAnalysis’ teardown indicates that SMIC’s N+3 fabrication process supports a minimum metal pitch of 32.5nm, which is nominally tighter than the approximately 36nm pitch used for many high-performance cells in Intel’s …