Graphcore AI chips are 100X times faster

AI chip Startup Graphcore IPU systems are designed to lower the cost of accelerating AI applicationsA in cloud and enterprise datacenters to increase the performance of both training and inference by up to 100x compared to the fastest systems today. Graphcore systems excel at both training and inference. The highly parallel computational resources together with …

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China sets 6.5% GDP growth target for 2017

China is aiming to expand its economy by around 6.5 percent in 2017 as it continues to implement a proactive fiscal policy and maintain a prudent monetary policy, Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday. Top leaders at the National People’s Congress are tolerating slightly slower economic growth this year to give them more room to …

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New High Speed Elevators twice as fast as Usain Bolt running the 100 meters

The Shanghai Tower is a 632-meter (2,073 ft), 127-story megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. As of 2016, it is the world’s second-tallest building by height to architectural top (behind Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, 828 m), the world’s tallest building by height to highest usable floor (Level 127, 587.4 m), and the world’s third-tallest structure (behind …

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China plans 60 MWE modular nuclear reactor by 2020 and a floating reactor by 2025

China General Nuclear (CGN) expects to complete construction of a demonstration small modular offshore multi-purpose reactor by 2020, the company announced yesterday. CGN said development of its ACPR50S reactor design had recently been approved by China’s National Development and Reform Commission as part of the 13th Five-Year Plan for innovative energy technologies. The company said …

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NASA will test distributed electric engines on a two person plane in 2017

NASA’s project Sceptor (Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology and Operations Research) is a test aircraft, to be built to study the use of distributed electric propulsion (DEP). It involves replacing the wings on a a twin-engined Italian-built Tecnam P2006T (a conventional four-seater light aircraft) with DEP wings each containing electrically driven propellers. Tecnam P2006T Test …

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