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…

Arm faces potential shareholder revolt over CEO’s ‘excessive’ $800 million pay package — huge stock award would only be fully realised if chip designer hits $2

The compensation is arranged through a one-time Value Creation Plan (VCP) consisting of 425,000 Performance Share Units (PSUs), with the award divided across three market-cap milestones, according to Arm’s regulatory fil…

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,…