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However, Bohr said, he remains optimistic because of forthcoming technologies such as strained silicon, high-kappa dielectrics ... a wire thinner than a single atom. But making wires ever thinner ...

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General Motors is partnering with Silicon Valley tech firm Nvidia on artificial intelligence and accelerated cloud-to-car computation, the companies announced Tuesday at Nvidia's annual GTC ...

In 2020, Apple announced the Mac transition to Apple Silicon. Replacing Intel was a large undertaking, but it proved successful. Apple was able to develop chips that were both faster and more ...

OpenAI is upping the stakes for artificial intelligence reasoning applications with the debut of a more powerful version of its popular o1 model. The company has just launched o1-pro, making it ...

The Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch of two of its most powerful models yet, including a new reasoning-focused model that ...

Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs. The Wan2.1 text-to-video ...

Good Smile Company announced it is now taking orders for its first Nendoroid Plamo model kit, which allows someone to build a Hatsune Miku figure that looks like a smaller take on a Nendoroid.