GoPro to expand into AI data centers after $285 million merger with optical-photonics company — move to solve camera maker’s financial woes, move manufacturing

Starman said that the move will give it access to GoPro’s intellectual property, which amounts to more than 2,500 patents, as well as its imaging solutions, advanced optics, and other technologies that it has developed. …

China’s EUV technology ‘at a similar stage to ASML in 2004,’ analyst claims — Beijing’s semiconductor industry remains well behind Western rivals

For years, China’s pursuit of semiconductor self-sufficiency stemmed from its ability to produce mainstream chips on trailing nodes using fairly advanced, though not the latest, tools from leading producers such as ASML,…

Acer launches seven new gaming monitors across Nitro and Predator families — tri-mode panels, QD-OLEDs, Mini LEDs, 1,000 Hz, and more

We’ll start our coverage with the Nitro family, which has four new members, the cheapest of which is the Nitro XV270U Z3 at $299. The XV270U Z3 is a tri-mode monitor, offering three distinct resolution/refresh rate prese…

Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an ‘Airbnb for AI inference,’ but profitability remains unproven

All that aside, distributed AI compute has a credibility problem to overcome. A research preprint from June claimed that Pearl, a blockchain marketed as converting cryptocurrency mining into AI work, ran the equivalent o…