diff --git a/source/_posts/AMD-plans-to-Unify-RDNA-and-CDNA-GPUs-into-UDNA-to-compete-with-Nvidia-CUDA.md b/source/_posts/AMD-plans-to-Unify-RDNA-and-CDNA-GPUs-into-UDNA-to-compete-with-Nvidia-CUDA.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6de4865 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/AMD-plans-to-Unify-RDNA-and-CDNA-GPUs-into-UDNA-to-compete-with-Nvidia-CUDA.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: AMD plans to Unify RDNA and CDNA GPUs into UDNA to compete with Nvidia CUDA +date: 2024-09-10 02:15:45 +tags: + - amd + - nvidia + - udna + - rdna + - cdna + - gpu + - cuda +--- + +### Quick Report + +Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group of AMD has announced plans to unify CDNA and RDNA into single UDNA architecture to compete against Nvidia CUDA and bring better development experience in a statement to Tom\'s Hardware. + + + +Jack Huynh admits AMD made a mistake with RDNA side causing a lot of missed optimization opportunities and focus on unifying RDNA and CDNA into a single architecture for better optimize engineering efforts and logistics so that the RDNA and CDNA work in unison to better optimize the GPU and developer tools to compete against CUDA. + +### Source(s) + +- [TPU][def] +- [Tom\'s Hardware][def2] + +[def]: https://www.techpowerup.com/326442/amd-to-unify-gaming-rdna-and-data-center-cdna-into-udna-singular-gpu-architecture-similar-to-nvidias-cuda +[def2]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-unified-udna-gpu-architecture-bringing-rdna-and-cdna-together-to-take-on-nvidias-cuda-ecosystem diff --git a/source/_posts/TSMC-Arizona-achieves-near-Yield-Parity-as-TSMC-Taiwan-and-Production-on-Schedule.md b/source/_posts/TSMC-Arizona-achieves-near-Yield-Parity-as-TSMC-Taiwan-and-Production-on-Schedule.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50d78f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/TSMC-Arizona-achieves-near-Yield-Parity-as-TSMC-Taiwan-and-Production-on-Schedule.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: >- + TSMC Arizona achieves near Yield Parity as TSMC Taiwan and Production on + Schedule +date: 2024-09-10 02:13:13 +tags: + - tsmc + - taiwan + - yield + - arizona + - production + - schedule +--- + +### Quick Report + +TSMC has announced their Arizona factory is now on par with Taiwanese production in terms of yield and low wafer defects. This makes TSMC's efforts to expand and fabricate advanced chips in American soil a success. +It will soon start volume production in 2025 and follow up with second fab in 2028 to advanced their ongong efforts to make 2nm and sub 2nm chips with investments around $65 Billion with $6 Billion from Chips Act and $5 Billion as loan from US govt. + + +Currently there are only handful of fabrication plants in the world that can make adavnced chips and TSMC is one of them who has achieved this feat in US soil. + +### Source(s) + +- [TPU][def] +- [Bloomberg][def2] + +[def]: https://www.techpowerup.com/326425/tsmc-arizona-achieves-yield-parity-with-taiwanese-facilities-production-remains-on-schedule +[def2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-06/tsmc-s-arizona-trials-put-plant-productivity-on-par-with-taiwan diff --git a/source/_posts/Xockets-files-for-Antitrust-Patent-Infringement-lawsuit-against-Microsoft-and-Nvidia.md b/source/_posts/Xockets-files-for-Antitrust-Patent-Infringement-lawsuit-against-Microsoft-and-Nvidia.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da4d038 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/Xockets-files-for-Antitrust-Patent-Infringement-lawsuit-against-Microsoft-and-Nvidia.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: >- + Xockets files for Antitrust, Patent Infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and + Nvidia +date: 2024-09-09 02:27:48 +tags: + - Antitrust + - Patent Infringement + - xocket + - dpu + - gpu + - nvidia + - microsoft +--- + +### Quick Report + +Xockets, a inventor of Data Processing Units (DPUs) has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Nvidia for patent infringement. The lawsuit alleges that Microsoft and Nvidia have infringed on Xockets' patents related to DPUs by forming an illegal cartel for fair compensation. Xockets is claiming that Nvidia infringed the patents after acquisition of Mellanox and seeking injunction on Blackwell GPUs and Microsoft's use of the said GPUs for GenAI platforms. + + +Robert Cote, Xocket's board member described the suit as the fight against Big tech's predatory infringements and monopolistic practices to devalue smaller company\'s innovations. + +The case is Xockets Inc v Nvidia, Microsoft and RPX, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, No. 6:24-cv-00453-ADA. + +### Source(s) + +- [TPU][def] +- [Xockets Press Release][def2] +- [Reuters][def3] + +[def]: https://www.techpowerup.com/326354/xockets-files-antitrust-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-nvidia-and-microsoft +[def2]: https://www.xockets.com/media/ +[def3]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/nvidia-microsoft-hit-with-patent-lawsuit-over-ai-computing-technology-2024-09-05/