Nvidia’s Blackwell Wafer: The First Step Toward Onshored AI Chipmaking

Nvidia’s first US-made Blackwell wafer represents a milestone in America’s bid for semiconductor independence. While true chip self-sufficiency remains years away, this achievement marks a significant leap in the nation’s reindustrialization push – and positions it for the next phase of AI hardware leadership. The post Nvidia’s Blackwell Wafer: The First Step Toward Onshored AIContinue Reading

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Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino’s hardware experiments are struggling Apple’s run of hardware experiments appears to be hitting some turbulence: The company’s ultra-thin iPhone Air has reportedly failed to catch on with buyers, while its long-awaited foldable iPad is slipping furtherContinue Reading

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Sequoia Capital just showed us exactly what “institutional neutrality” means—when billions are at stake. Sumaiya Balbale—the firm’s chief operating officer, a Shake Shack board member, someone “well regarded internally and by the start-ups she worked with as an experienced operating executive”—resigned in August after complaining about partner Shaun Maguire’s Islamophobic posts. Senior partners declinedContinue Reading

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Electron, a GridTech company and a specialist in energy flexibility marketplaces, has agreed to acquire Rhythmos.io, a pioneer in distributed energy resource (DER) detection and grid impact analytics. As EVs, battery storage systems and rooftop solar proliferate, utilities need to identify where these resources are located, quantify their grid impact,Continue Reading

Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone

Home » Artificial intelligence » Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone SpaceX’s $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrumContinue Reading

SpaceX Starship For A NASA Flagship Uranus Science Mission

In 2022, the National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended exploration of Uranus as its highest priority Flagship mission for the 2030s. The Decadal recommendation relied on the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) concept as its baseline for the mission. UOP assumed a launch in 2031 on a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket andContinue Reading

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Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. Reddit’s lawsuit in a New York federal court takes aim at San Francisco-basedContinue Reading