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Low Power-High Performance SPONSOR BLOG The impact of embedded micro-bumps and wafer-to-wafer hybrid bonding on the thermal behavior of the package stack. Thermal challenges in 3D-IC designs can cause a significant risk in meeting performance specifications. While the pace of Moore’s Law has slowed in recent years, system technology co-optimization (STCO) promises to mitigate technology … Read more
Activation functions play a critical role in AI inference, helping to ferret out nonlinear behaviors in AI models. This makes them an integral part of any neural network, but nonlinear functions can be fussy to build in silicon. Is it better to have a CPU calculate them? Should hardware function units be laid down to … Read more
NVIDIA is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring agentic AI to enterprises seeking to locally harness the Google Gemini family of AI models using the NVIDIA Blackwell HGX and DGX platforms and NVIDIA Confidential Computing for data safety. With the NVIDIA Blackwell platform on Google Distributed Cloud, on-premises data centers can stay aligned with regulatory … Read more
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti entries are appearing in the Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan test databases, offering double-digit uplifts over its predecessor. This is a welcome surprise, as previous leaks indicated the gap between it and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is far smaller. Rumours state that GeForce RTX 5060 Ti will be available with 8GB … Read more
Apple has launched the new Apple Invites iPhone app for planning social events with friends and family. Apple Invites requires iOS 18 on the iPhone, and you can also use it at iCloud.com/invites on the Mac and iPad. Event creation is limited to iCloud+ subscribers (those who pay for extra iCloud storage), but anyone can … Read more
GAMING IS EVERYWHERE Today, gaming isn’t just confined to desktops or consoles at home. Whether you’re grabbing a quick match with friends between classes or kicking back with a game on your commute, gaming on the go is becoming the norm. That’s where thin and light laptops come in, offering you legit performance … Read more
Meta has released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, two open-weight frontier large language models that introduce major architectural changes while expanding the company’s presence across consumer apps and cloud platforms. Both models are designed with a native multimodal structure and a sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) system, with Scout optimized for single-GPU use and Maverick … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents Best buys categories Categories to be cautious of Conclusion If you’re following our ongoing saga dedicated to investigating Costco and Sam’s Club for electronics, you may think that we’re under the impression that all electronics are best purchased at these warehouse stores. That’s not the case. There are some … Read more
What is it with OnePlus and not making it perfectly obvious there is a deal going on when you look at the price? Like another ongoing OnePlus deal, there’s a deal on the OnePlus Nord N30 5G (the OnePlus budget phone to beat), but you won’t see any fancy slashes through the price. There’s just … Read more
Google is expanding its experimental AI Mode in Search with a new multimodal capability that lets users upload or take a photo and receive an AI-generated response about what’s in the image. The new feature, launched on April 7, is now available to millions more users in the U.S. via Search Labs on Android and … Read more