TSMC plans to make 1.6nm chipset to be used in future Apple products: Report 

TSMC plans to make 1.6nm chipset to be used in future Apple products: Report 

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC announced plans to produce highly advanced 1.6nm chips that could be used by Apple for its future chips. The new technology is reported to significantly enhance chip’s logic density and performance, promising substantial improvements for high-performance computing and data centers, MacRumors reported. TSMC plans to begin production of its 1.6nm chips …

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Offaly students highly commended for entry in Safer Internet awards

Offaly students highly commended for entry in Safer Internet awards

Sacred Heart School Tullamore students – Hanna Lysenko and Rheannon Shreiber- – been selected for a Highly Commended Award in the Safer Internet Day 2024- Ambassador Leadership category in the SID 2024 Awards. The standard of entries to this year’s competition was extremely high, and the Webwise team and the judges congratulated everyone involved in the schools campaign. The judges noted:”Their campaign was successful …

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Japan tightens export controls on more chip and quantum tech

Japan tightens export controls on more chip and quantum tech

(April 26): Japan said it plans to expand restrictions on exports of four technologies related to semiconductors or quantum computing, the latest in a global push to control the flow of strategic tech. Tokyo’s new measures will affect scanning electron microscopes, used to analyse nanoparticle images, and gate-all-around transistors, a technology embraced by Samsung Electronics …

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Protection as good as glass

Protection as good as glass

Every year, the best Android phones launch with the latest and “toughest yet” Corning Gorilla glass protection for their displays. However, out-of-pocket screen replacements can be expensive, and an additional protector seems justifiable. However, the market is overrun with tempered glass options. We see yesterday’s film-type options pre-applied by brands, only for us to peel …

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Internet outage affected Orangeburg County schools

Internet outage affected Orangeburg County schools

Some Orangeburg County public schools were without internet access earlier this week due to a damaged fiber cable. Branchville’s Lockett Elementary School as well as the Bethune-Bowman Middle/High School and the Cope Area Career Center all were without internet access from Monday, April 22 through Wednesday, April 24. Connection was restored during the evening of …

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A Collector’s Dilemma: AI or Human Art?

A Collector’s Dilemma: AI or Human Art?

AI from the Whitney Biannual 2024 Source: Shirley M. Mueller Art created by artificial intelligence (AI) is currently featured at the 2024 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial in New York City. The exhibition, “Even Better Than the Real Thing” (March 20 through August 11), showcases AI in its first display and later in the …

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Chip firm founded by ex-Intel president plans massive 256-core CPU to surf AI inference wave and give Nvidia B100 a run for its money — Ampere Computing AmpereOne-3 likely to support PCIe 6.0 and DDR5 tech

Chip firm founded by ex-Intel president plans massive 256-core CPU to surf AI inference wave and give Nvidia B100 a run for its money — Ampere Computing AmpereOne-3 likely to support PCIe 6.0 and DDR5 tech

Ampere Computing unveiled its AmpereOne Family of processors last year, boasting up to 192 single-threaded Ampere cores, which was the highest in the industry.  These chips, designed for cloud efficiency and performance, were Ampere’s first product based on its new custom core leveraging internal IP,  signalling a shift in the sector, according to CEO Renée …

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