Chris Evans loves Cool Ranch Doritos, and he’s not about to apologize for his good taste.
After comedian Kevin Fredericks posted a video on Twitter in an attempt to determine the correct ranking of chips found in a Frito-Lay variety pack, passionate …
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A video ranking Fritos, Doritos, Cheetos, and Lay’s chips is dividing the internet
The internet is in a full on battle over variety chip snack packs.
It all started when comedian Kevin Fredericks posted this video on Twitter, sparking the debate of what the best chips were in the Lay’s variety pack.
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Qualcomm used its CES press conference today to announce the third generation of its Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform, its latest AI-centric platform for building in-car experiences that include everything from voice-driven interfaces to good-old navigation systems, all with modern visual interfaces. The platform now comes in three tiers — Performance, Premiere and Paramount — for […]
View More Qualcomm’s Cockpit Platform promises to make cars smarterAWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chip
AWS is not content to cede any part of any market to any company. When it comes to machine learning chips, names like Nvidia or Google come to mind, but today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced a new dedicated machine learning chip of its own called Inferentia. “Inferentia will be a very […]
View More AWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chipChipmaker Renesas goes deeper into autonomous vehicles with $6.7B acquisition
Japan-based semiconductor firm Renesas — one of the world’s largest supplier of chips for the automotive industry — is scooping up U.S. chip company IDT in a $6.7 billion deal that increases its focus on self-driving technology. Renesas produces microprocessor and circuits that power devices, and automotive is its core focus. It is second only to NXP […]
View More Chipmaker Renesas goes deeper into autonomous vehicles with $6.7B acquisitionIntel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip business
Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs. The company has acquired NetSpeed Systems, a startup that makes system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and interconnect fabric intellectual property (IP). The company will be joining Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group, and […]
View More Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip businessFacebook is hiring a team to design its own chips
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Facebook is assembling a team to design proprietary semiconductors.
The social network seeks a manager to head an “end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization,” reports Bloomberg, citing job listings and sources familiar with the matter.
It’s not yet clear what exactly these chips will power. The job posting seeks “expertise to build custom solutions targeted at multiple verticals including AI/ML” (artificial intelligence and machine learning).
This means we could be looking at something that’s going to power the AI in Facebook’s upcoming smart speaker, which the company planned to announce in July, but delayed indefinitely among the kerfuffle of Cambridge Analytica. Amazon is also at work on in-house AI chips to power Alexa in future Echo models. Read more…
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View More Facebook is hiring a team to design its own chipsQualcomm launches its new vision intelligence platform for IoT devices
Qualcomm’s chips already power virtually every Android smartphone on the market, but the company has long set its sights beyond this core market and is increasingly looking at IoT as one of its next major growth areas. Earlier this year it launched its new embedded platform for IoT developers; today, it’s introducing two new systems-on-a-chip […]
View More Qualcomm launches its new vision intelligence platform for IoT devicesSiFive gets $50.6M to help companies get their custom chip designs out the door
With the race to next-generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for some more flexible hardware for an increasingly changing technology landscape — and Naveed Sherwani hopes to tap that for everyone else. That’s the premise of SiFive, a […]
View More SiFive gets $50.6M to help companies get their custom chip designs out the doorLightmatter aims to reinvent AI-specific chips with photonic computing and $11M in funding
It takes an immense amount of processing power to create and operate the “AI” features we all use so often, from playlist generation to voice recognition. Lightmatter is a startup that is looking to change the way all that computation is done — and not in a small way. The company makes photonic chips that essentially perform calculations at the speed of light, leaving… Read More
Former Intel president launches new chip company with backing from Carlyle Group
Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers. The company’s first chip is a custom core Armv8-A 64-bit server operating at up to 3.3 GHz with 1TB of memory at a power envelope of 125 watts. Although James was not ready to share pricing, she promised… Read More
Samsung is making chips for cryptocurrency mining
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Samsung’s chip-making division is diving into the lucrative space of cryptocurrency mining.
Korean news outlet The Bell broke the news Tuesday, and Samsung confirmed to TechCrunch Wednesday that it’s indeed making crypto-mining chips.
“Samsung’s foundry business is currently engaged in the manufacturing of cryptocurrency mining chips,” the company told TC without disclosing any further details. Read more…
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