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Imec 3D HBM-on-GPU STCO study shows major thermal improvements for Artificial Intelligence workloads

10 Dec 2025

At the 2025 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, Imec presented the first thermal system-technology co-optimization study for 3D HBM-on-GPU and reported peak GPU temperatures falling from 140.7°C to 70.8°C under realistic Artificial Intelligence training workloads.

imec, packaging, semiconductors, thermal management

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Four technologies that missed our 2026 breakthroughs list

9 Dec 2025

Our newsroom considered dozens of contenders for the 2026 breakthroughs list; here are four technologies the editors debated but ultimately excluded, including advances in male contraceptives, world models in Artificial Intelligence, personhood credentials, and the use of decades-old embryos.

artificial intelligence, identity, reproductive health

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India makes its bets as Artificial Intelligence chip race hots up; startup costs may fall

8 Dec 2025

India is expanding computing capacity under its IndiaAI Mission while rising competition between Google and Nvidia in Artificial Intelligence hardware could reduce chip costs for domestic startups.

artificial intelligence, industry, technology

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Meta strikes multiple Artificial Intelligence deals with news publishers

7 Dec 2025

Meta has signed commercial Artificial Intelligence data agreements with USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde to provide 'real-time' news links to its chatbot.

artificial intelligence, business, media, meta

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AWS unleashes custom LLM tools: serverless model creation revolutionizes enterprise artificial intelligence

7 Dec 2025

Amazon Web Services announced serverless model customization in Amazon SageMaker artificial intelligence and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in Amazon Bedrock at AWS re:Invent 2025, positioning the company to make custom large language models more accessible for enterprises.

artificial intelligence, aws, enterprise, machine learning

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Samsung to supply half of NVIDIA’s SOCAMM2 modules in 2026

7 Dec 2025

Hankyng reports Samsung Electronics has secured a deal to supply half of NVIDIA's SOCAMM2 modules in 2026 for the Vera Rubin Superchip, which pairs two 'Rubin' Artificial Intelligence GPUs with one 'Vera' CPU and moves from hardwired memory to DDR5 SOCAMM2 modules.

hardware, memory, nvidia, samsung

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NVIDIA announces CUDA Tile in CUDA 13.1

6 Dec 2025

CUDA 13.1 introduces CUDA Tile, a virtual instruction set for tile-based parallel programming that raises the programming abstraction above SIMT and abstracts tensor cores to support current and future tensor core architectures. The change targets workloads including Artificial Intelligence where tensors are a fundamental data type.

gpu programming, machine learning, nvidia

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Dell raises pc prices 15-20% as memory costs surge; Lenovo follows

6 Dec 2025

Dell plans a 15-20% price increase as DDR5 and DRAM costs jump, and Lenovo says current quotes expire on January 1 amid memory shortages and Artificial Intelligence-driven demand.

hardware, memory, supply chain

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The Download: artificial intelligence chatbots sway voters and gene-editing adverts stir debate

6 Dec 2025

New research finds Artificial Intelligence chatbots can shift voter preferences more effectively than political advertisements, while biotech startups are running provocative campaigns promising genetic trait selection.

artificial intelligence, biotech, politics

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Google’s new Artificial Intelligence chip is shaking Nvidia’s dominance: what to know

6 Dec 2025

Google launched its Ironwood tensor processing unit, which now powers Gemini 3, and rising interest from Meta and Anthropic is adding pressure to Nvidia’s decade-long dominance in Artificial Intelligence compute.

artificial intelligence, google, nvidia, semiconductors

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US senators file new bill that could block NVIDIA from selling advanced Artificial Intelligence chips to China

6 Dec 2025

A bipartisan group of US senators unveiled the Secure and Feasible Exports Act, or SAFE CHIPS Act, which would bar sales of advanced Artificial Intelligence chips to China and other adversaries for two and a half years unless export licenses are granted.

artificial intelligence, china, export controls, nvidia

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Samsung teases Exynos 2600 5G, insiders point to regional exclusivity

6 Dec 2025

Samsung posted a 30-second-long teaser for its Exynos 2600 5G SoC as reports tie the chip to a 2 nm GAA process and suggest it may be used only in select regions while Qualcomm supplies other markets.

exynos, mobile, samsung, semiconductors