Siri icon in a datacenter Apple announced new AI language models at WWDC. These models run both locally on Apple devices and on Apple's own Apple Silicon-powered AI servers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on language models which provide knowledge input to train AI to produce results for prompts (queries). Using language models, computers can be…
Whether you have just switched from a PC to a Mac and have discovered that the ” and @ keys aren’t where you were expecting, you can’t find the euro sign, pound sign, or hash key on your Mac keyboard, or you need to type some unusual characters or accents and don’t know how, are…
Bluetooth trackers like Apple’s AirTag have always been a two-edged sword: They’re a cheap way to track stuff you own using a tiny piece of hardware with a battery that lasts about a year. Third-party Find My items, as Apple terms them, from other companies offer different shapes and sometimes even longer battery life. You’ve…
Today began with a surprise, Intel dumped 1,176,470 shares in ARM Holdings Plc on Tuesday with little to no fanfare. That is an interesting move which is guaranteed to cause speculations across… Source
The great strength of iPads is their long battery life. With a current iPad, you can surf the web or watch videos for up to ten hours. However, not everything you do gives you ten hours of battery life; if you play a demanding game, use a video editing app intensively, or operate the iPad…
At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the…
If you are a student you may already be aware that you can get Apple Music for half the usual price. But did you know that a student Apple Music subscription comes with Apple TV+ for free! Apple Music usually costs $10.99/£10.99, but students can get it for $5.99/£5.99 a month (for up to four…
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the…
As the deployment of PCIe 5.0 picks up steam in both datacenter and consumer markets, PCI-SIG is not sitting idle, and is already working on getting the ecosystem ready for the updats to the PCIe specifications. At FMS 2024, some vendors were even talking about PCIe 7.0 with its 128 GT/s capabilities despite PCIe 6.0…