Chinese fab SMIC's 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds — Huawei's sanctions-beating HiSilicon Kirin 9030 is the first subject of SemiAnalysis's new teardown lab
SemiAnalysis has published the first teardown from its new in-house lab, focusing on the minimum local metal pitch on SMIC’s third-gen 7nm at 32.
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Barely any EU data centers are actually ready for AI - and upgrading could be a costly challenge
European data center supply doesn't meet rising demand for AI, report finds Unsuitable power density and cooling systems are the problem Some countries are better suited to new campuses than others Only one in five…
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AIC's SB407-VA server offers 70 hot-swappable bays supporting up to 3PB raw storage
AIC SB407-VA high-density 4U storage server has 60 HDD bays and 8 SSD bays Supports Xeon CPUs, DDR5, PCIe Gen5, and NVMe, SAS, SATA connectivity Redundant cooling and power management keep the 80kg server reliable under…
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Audio-Technica's see-through turntable is so cool, it seems a shame to put your vinyl on it
The Audio-Technica AT-LPA2 is high-density acrylic for reduced resonance Power housed in a breakout box to eliminate interference (and to stop it ruining the looks) $2,000 / £1,699 / €1,999 (about AU$3,488) If you're…
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