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Flagship Huawei P60 will get a strange SoC Kirin 9100 on the old 14 nm process technology? Rumors say that such a platform will be no worse than modern ones.
Very strange rumors about the Huawei P60 smartphone have appeared on the Web. More specifically, regarding its platform.
On the expanses of the Weibo social network, there were statements that the new Huawei flagship will receive SoC Kirin 9100, which will allegedly be produced using the 14 nm process technology! For comparison, the Kirin 9000 is manufactured according to 5nm standards, and the latest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 even boasts a 4nm process technology.
Even more interesting is that the source claims that the performance of the new SoC will be comparable to solutions within the 5 nm process technology. How this will be achieved and how Huawei adapts all modern Cortex processor cores to the old process technology is not specified, but it talks about using a three-dimensional layout.
On the one hand, Huawei is under US sanctions, so it simply cannot order modern single-chip systems with 5G support from TSMC or Samsung. On the other hand, firstly, the company can use (and uses) Snapdragon platforms with 4G, and secondly, it is not a fact that it is technically possible to create a single-chip system based on modern CPUs and GPUs with performance and power consumption corresponding to modern solutions, but with using a process technology several generations older.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered hundreds of “planets” that seem to float in the void of space, not attached to any star. And many of them are not completely alone: they appear in pairs.
The discovery of these Jupiter-mass objects in a new scan of Orion has puzzled astronomers and may require a re-evaluation of existing models of planetary system formation.
Scientists have two possible explanations for the unusual phenomenon. These could either be protoplanets that were unlucky enough to form incompletely, or they formed inside solar systems and were later ejected into interstellar space.
These objects have some characteristic features of planets, such as a hot atmosphere with steam and methane, but scientists say that these objects are not technically planets.
Although the hypothesis of objects being ejected from their solar systems is more popular, the fact that James Webb identified about 40 of these objects in pairs complicates the situation.
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Formally, there are no questions to Nvidia even after the raid. The European Commission denies the fact of conducting an antimonopoly investigation
EU competition authorities are not conducting a formal investigation into chips used for artificial intelligence, the European Commission announced on Monday, October 2.
“The Commission is not conducting a formal investigation into the matter you refer to,” an EU executive spokesman said in an email to Reuters, which asked for comment on the rumors.
A few days earlier, the French antitrust authority raided Nvidia on suspicion of anti-competitive practices. Nvidia declined to comment on the situation after the French raid.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that the EU’s competition watchdog was informally gathering views on potentially unfair practices in the GPU market.
Samsung’s contract chip manufacturing division has a new customer in the form of a Canadian startup called Tenstorrent, which develops chips with artificial intelligence technologies.
Tenstorrent is among a number of startups trying to compete with Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market. The company makes chips for data centers, but is also working to supply other markets, including automotive.
As part of the deal, Tenstorrent plans to use one of Samsung’s advanced manufacturing processes (4nm) to produce chips. Some of Tenstorrent’s chips are built using technology known as RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor architecture that competes with Arm and x86. However, the chip that Samsung will produce is called Quasar and is not based on RISC-V technology.
“Tenstorrent’s goal is to develop high-performance computing and deliver those solutions to customers around the world,” Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said in a statement.
The James Webb telescope discovered planets without a star
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered hundreds of “planets” that seem to float in the void of space, not...
Formally, there are no questions to Nvidia even after the raid. The European Commission denies the fact of conducting an antimonopoly investigation
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Samsung will release the latest Quasar chips to compete with Nvidia
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