Well, isn't that unexpected? A Japanese toilet maker has just announced that it will pivot to AI chips, leading to a 18% stock surge. Ceramics Used For Making Toilets Are Now Going To Power The AI Chip Industry Who would've predicted that a company involved in making toilets and other sanitary equipment would start making AI chips? Well, Toto, A Japanese company, has just announced that and is seeing a boost to its stock. The company leverages ceramics for its current operations, but the same ceramics can be used for making components that are critical to AI infrastructure. As per […]

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Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.

The US administration has announced a new council, the PCAST, in which leaders of the AI industry will advise President Trump on science and technology matters. The PCAST Is an Advisory Council That Includes The Best Pack of AI Leaders, Led By AI Czar David Sacks America is navigating a complex landscape in the AI industry, largely because the technology has emerged recently and reached a level that exceeds the dot-com hype. This has not only brought in new opportunities but also introduced constraints for the current administration, which is why, under an executive order, President Trump has established the […]

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NVIDIA's position in the AI industry stems from its robust compute portfolio, but a WSJ report delves into Jensen's Web of Alliances, which is worth discussing. NVIDIA's Groq Agreement & Investment Moves Are All Part of a Broader Motive to Drive the AI Industry When we talk about the biggest beneficiaries of the current AI cycle, there's no doubt that NVIDIA is leading the race, given its unique position in providing compute power for our AI models. NVIDIA sees demand not just from AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, but also from hyperscalers like Meta, Amazon, and Google, and from […]

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Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

SuperMicro, a leading AI infrastructure provider, has reportedly been charged by the Justice Department for smuggling NVIDIA's servers to China, but the way they did it is a lot more surprising. SuperMicro's Employees Used Bogus Servers & 'Hair Dryers' To Deceive U.S. Export Control Officers The issue of NVIDIA's AI chips being smuggled to China has persisted since the Biden administration, and it has been a concern not just for the administration but also for NVIDIA, which has previously said there are "no signs of diversions". Well, it appears that SuperMicro was involved in a 'smuggling scandal', in which it […]

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At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it raise $143 million.

Meta's custom silicon isn't going anywhere, and according to the company's new announcements, it appears that they have 'doubled down' on ASIC efforts, focusing on inference-class performance. Meta's Chiplet Modularity Allows Them To Spin Out Four New Generations In Just Two Years The demand for compute has become so tremendous that hyperscalers are eventually "forced" to diversify away from traditional options offered by GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA, and one way to do so is to develop custom silicon. Google and Amazon are two of the more prominent examples of how 'fruitful' ASIC efforts can turn out when optimized for internal […]

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The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.