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Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Germany-based chipmaker Infineon plans to spend a further €5B to build more capacity in Malaysia, for a €7B total investment, betting on growing EV chip demand  —  German chipmaker announces investment but pressure on existing automotive business leads to share price fall Lees verder op Tech Meme

GPU Utils: An in-depth look at GPU supply and demand, particularly Nvidia H100s, how relying on TSMC can cause bottlenecks, H100 clients, Nvidia’s allocations, and more  —  Introduction  —  As of August 2023, it seems AI might be bottlenecked by the supply of GPUs. … Is There Really A Bottleneck? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: IBM, HuggingFace, and NASA release an open-source geospatial foundation model to support new climate and Earth science AIs that can track deforestation and more  —  The open-source model will serve as the basis for future forest, crop and climate change-monitoring AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: AMD announces the Radeon Pro W7600 for $599, $50 cheaper than its predecessor, and the W7500 for $429, both based on its new Navi 33 GPU, available later in Q3  —  As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Germany-based chipmaker Infineon plans to spend a further €5B to build more capacity in Malaysia, for a €7B total investment, betting on growing EV chip demand  —  German chipmaker announces investment but pressure on existing automotive business leads to share price fall Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: Sensor Tower: Threads’ DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; daily average time spent fell to 2.9 minutes/day on August 1, down from 19 at launch  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Brave Search updates its image and video search to use Brave’s own index rather than the ones from Bing or Google; some advanced search capabilities are absent  —  Brave, best known for its privacy-focused web browser, is adding image and video search to Brave Search that now relies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: FCC fines a robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect personal information from people, a record $300M  —  The FCC’s robocaller penalties are growing as the agency tracks down and terminates their operations — this time resulting in a record $300 million forfeiture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Patreon temporarily disables Payoneer payments after some creators were unable to access their earnings and some banks flagged subscriber payments as fraudulent  —  Two simultaneous issues with payments on Patreon are causing problems for both creators and fans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Germany-based chipmaker Infineon plans to spend a further €5B to build more capacity in Malaysia, for a €7B total investment, betting on growing EV chip demand  —  German chipmaker announces investment but pressure on existing automotive business leads to share price fall Lees verder op Tech Meme