Tachyum is a startup that will make Prodigy processors will enable hyperscale data centers that have 25% of the cost (4X lower cost) and will saving each hyperscale customer billions of dollars per year. First-generation Prodigy data centres will offer 3.3 EF of FP64, three times the performance of existing supercomputers, and also deliver around …
Tachyum’s first chip Prodigy has not completely finished its design but one customer will buy hundreds of thousands of Universal chips to build a 50 exaFLOPS supercomputer. Tachyum® announced that it has accepted a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale system, based on its 5nm Prodigy® Universal Processor chip, which …
In 2021, Intel talked reaching Zettascale in three phases. AMD CEO talked about getting to a Zettaflop in 2030-2035. AMD CEO indicated that an earlier Zettaflop supercomputer would need about 500 Megawatts of power. Exascale systems today consume 21MW of power. AMD and Intel have managed to roughly double the performance of their CPUs and …
The REAL3™image sensor chip from Infineon Technologies AG plays a key role in the newest innovative Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone by ASUS. The mobile device was launched yesterday at International CES ® 2017 (International Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. The ASUS Zenfone AR is the world’s thinnest smartphone that offers a 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) …
Pokemon Go became the top US mobile game within days of its launch. Many see it reaching 1 billion global installs to surpass the 550 million peak of Candy Crush. Pokemon Go and the follow on Mario and Zelda augmented reality games could get to over 1.6 billion mobile phone installs to surpass Facebook. Nintendo …
The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) is a ship-based missile system used by the US Navy to intercept short-to intermediate-range ballistic missiles as a part of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Although primarily designed as an anti-ballistic missile, the SM-3 has also been employed in an anti-satellite capacity against a satellite at the lower end …
The Carnival of Space 377 is up at Everyday Spacer The Meridiani Journal – MESSENGER takes first images of ice near Mercury’s north pole Nextbigfuture – The HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created. A French team …
An IEEE symposium panel concluded that “there is no chance that it (Moore’s law) will continue until 2035”. Moore’s Law is not dead, but it has clearly reached old age, and no fundamental technology has emerged to replace it. Whatever comes next is likely to challenge old assumptions both for technologists and society at large. …
A SpaceX rocket exploded in mid-air early Friday evening. The unmanned rocket exploded shortly after launch around 5:45 p.m. during a test flight at the SpaceX testing facility in McGregor. According to a statement from the company, no injuries were reported. Witnesses reported several grass fires start from falling debris, but none of the fires …
Investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have reported more encouraging news about one of the most exciting methods of cancer treatment today. The largest clinical study ever conducted to date of patients with advanced leukemia found that 88 percent achieved complete remissions after being treated with genetically modified versions of their own immune cells. …
Superconductors.ORG reports high Tc has been advanced to 77 Celsius (170F, 350K) with the discovery of the compound Tl7Sn2Ba2MnCu10O20+. This exceedingly high transition temperature (Tc) was achieved by substituting manganese into the titanium atomic sites of the 65 Celsius superconductor announced in January 2014. This substitution increases the dielectric constant (K) of the anion in …