As CPP shrinking stalls, chipmakers find a new way to increase transistor density. Imec foresees 0.3nm in 2038, CFET insertion in 2038, HLSI era.
Jonah Uellenberg won the Ping Pong Prize at the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest earlier this month, with a version of Pong that recompiles its own source code on every frame.
Claude and other AI agents fooled into running malware with just a minimal GitHub repository — ask the bot to initialize the project and you get hacked
Following a historic price hike, the Financial Times reports that Apple is lobbying in Washington to secure approval to buy cheaper RAM from CXMT. The manufacturer is currently designated as a Chinese military company, but is not entirely banned by the White House.
Onsemi and Synaptics to merge in a bid to build comprehensive platforms for robotics, physical AI applications.
The U.S. government wants dibs on U.S. AI labs’ most powerful models, asking for access 30 days before they go public. OpenAI is voluntarily complying with the President’s executive order but wants ‘to achieve a more sustainable approach for future releases.’
Apple will release a base M6 chip for entry-level Macs this year but skip the Pro and Max versions of that generation, jumping instead to an accelerated M7 family.
IBM’s new 0.7nm-class fabrication process uses nanostack transistors, requires 2x more FEOL steps for massive improvements in performance, power, and area.
The Epic executive said in an interview after unveiling Unreal Engine 6 that AI tools help make developers far more productive. Putting the AI tag on games discourage their use, especially as titles with this label gets fewer reviews and tend to have more negative reviews, as well.
A recording from a meeting at consulting firm Accenture has raised concerns over how much companies are spending on AI. As companies bullish on AI rush to take advantage of the technology, solutions to out of control token spend could see non-technical employees encouraged to stop using it for spurious tasks.