Pangoly's blog: a journey through the world of silicon and bits (Page 17)

Microsoft announced on Monday a MULTI-billion dollar investment in OpenAI and a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on the Azure cloud computing service.

The Raspberry Pi 4 has just been released. This is the latest version of the Raspberry Pi and offers better CPU and memory than the Raspberry Pi 3, dual HDMI outputs, better USB and Ethernet performance. It will remain in production until January 2026.

Today at Computex, AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the series of processors that will launch the new 2 Zen chip-based microarchitecture. Among other things, AMD is unveiling its new level of Ryzen 9 products, which it is using for its 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X processor and that works with a 4.6 GHz boost clock.

Although Intel last year invested an additional $1.5 billion to increase its production to 14 nm, it seems that its procurement problems will not be solved until the second half of this year. The company admitted Thursday during its earnings conference call that supply difficulties will continue throughout the third quarter of the year.

Google is launching its Stadia gaming cloud service at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today. Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the Stadia service during a special keynote at the GDC this morning.