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Alibaba Says the Zhenwu V900 Is China’s Most Powerful AI Chip. It Won’t Say How Fast.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
Alibaba's chip unit spent part of its Apsara Conference keynote in Hangzhou this week calling the Zhenwu V900 the most powerful AI chip in China. Then it declined to say how fast it is. No FLOPS figure, no process node, no foundry, no power number. What you get instead is 216GB of memory, 1,200GB/s of inter-chip bandwidth, and native support for FP8 and FP4.
Those are real specs on a real chip, and T-Head has shipped enough silicon that its existing Zhenwu parts serve more than 650 customers, so none of this is vapor. But the line everybody repeated afterward, Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu's claim that the V900 delivers "three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890," is a vendor number with nothing underneath it yet. The M890 had 144GB and 800GB/s. Do the division and both of those are exactly 1.5x. Tripling performance off 1.5x on memory and 1.5x on bandwidth means the compute engine has to be doing a great deal more work per clock, and that is the part Alibaba described with an adjective instead of a number.
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BYD’s Sealion 08 Is the $33,000 Long-Range SUV You Can’t Buy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation,
Picture a three-row electric SUV longer than a BMW X7, one that charges from nearly empty to almost full in about nine minutes and claims to travel 559 miles on a charge. Now picture it costing about what a loaded Toyota Highlander does. That car is real. BYD launched it on September 2, and unless you live in China, you cannot buy it.
The Sealion 08 is the new flagship of BYD's Ocean lineup, and it is a lot of vehicle for the money. Prices run from 229,900 to 279,900 yuan, or roughly $33,000 to $41,000, across eight versions. For that you get a 5,115mm body, a choice of five or six seats, and a spec sheet that reads like a wish list an American automaker would quietly file under "someday."
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The US Is Reportedly Drafting a Rule to Stop China Renting the AI Chips It Can’t Buy
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,
American export controls on AI chips have always had a hole in them shaped like the cloud. You cannot ship an Nvidia Blackwell server to Beijing. You can, apparently, sit in Beijing and rent time on one that is racked in Bangkok. A new report says the Trump administration is finally writing a rule about that.
The Information reported this week that the Commerce Department is working on export controls aimed at Chinese companies' remote access to advanced AI compute in countries that do not have matching restrictions, with Thailand and Singapore named as the obvious examples. Per that reporting, Commerce could circulate the draft to industry trade groups for feedback as early as September. Every word of that is in the conditional. What exists is a draft described by sources. No rule has been proposed, published, or enforced, and the administration has not announced one.
Purported iPhone 6 review video leaks ahead of Apple event
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Handhelds, Product Reviews, Videos,
Apple is set to begin it's major We Wish We Could Say More event in just over 20 minutes, where the company will announce the new 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. However, it looks like someone may have beaten the company to the punch on the unveiling of the device. The PhoneEvaluation YouTube channel, based in China, has a 7-minute look at what appears to be a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 unit. No telling how accurate it is until Apple shows us the real thing, but if we had to guess, you'te looking at a genuine iPhone 6 in the video. We've embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. It'll kill time before the Apple event kicks off.
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iOS 7.0.5 now available
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Software,
Apple just released iOS 7.0.5, which you can download through iTunes, or right on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch through the Software Update feature within the Settings app. iOS 7.0.5 is a fairly minor update, focused on correcting a few network provisioning issues that affect some iPhone 5s and 5c models in China.
Students being pulled out of Chinese classrooms to build iPhone 5?
Posted by Jason Diaz Categories: Apple, Corporate News, Rumors,
We at Gear Live have been hearing early morning reports from Shanghai Daily that hardware manufacturer, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., AKA Foxconn, has been allegedly pulling Chinese students from classrooms in preparation to build Apple's iPhone 5. The social network, Sina Weibo, has been filling up with claims that at least 200 students from the Huaiyen Institute of Technology were being escorted to Foxconn factories under the guise of being enrolled in a "school to work program" or "Internship." The students will allegedly be paid $224 per month to work 12 hour shifts, six days a week. Now, possibly as a result of public scrutiny, Shanghai Daily is reporting that students are being brought back to classrooms and instead are being offered to volunteer for the so-called school to work program.
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Man discovers international crime ring by using GPS
Posted by Andrey Malskiy Categories: GPS, Transportation, Videos,
Now if you think that high-end crime involving city ports, boats, crime circles, black markets, and Ferraris are things you only see on the big screen, think again.
The owner of a high-end rental car company based on Los Angeles noticed that his Ferrari 458 Italia was sitting still for a few days. Growing suspicious, we got the police involved and the last known location of the car, tracked via GPS.
The police finally caught up with the car in Hong Kong, and found that the Ferrari wasn’t alone in transit. A bunch of high priced vehicles were all heading over to the Asian black market where they can fetch a price twice the value of the car. This still comes out cheaper, since the buyer avoid taxes and fees. More details in the video above as CBS reports on the story.
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This video shows how the is iPad made
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Corporate News, Handhelds, Videos,
Ever wonder how Apple's iconic iPad is made? Over the past several weeks, the company has come under fire due to allegegations from Mike Daisey that turned out to be completely false. Now, American Public Media's Marketplace was able to go behind the scenes at Foxconn's Longhua plant to get a look at the actual iPad production line. In the video above, you see Rob Schmitz guiding and educating us through the factory conditions.
"When I gave examples of some of the American media coverage of the working conditions at Foxconn, many workers laughed, telling me it's not really that bad" says Schmitz. "But that doesn't mean the workers don't have complaints."
Go ahead and hit play on the video above for an up-close look.
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JAC 4R3, the pirated Ford F-150, set to debut at Beijing Motor Show
Posted by Andrey Malskiy Categories: Transportation,
Last summer I finally had a chance to return to my motherland, Ukraine. I grew up hearing stories of the place, but never got to experience it for what it really was, despite being born there. Apart from that fact that most of the stories I heard growing up were true (such as the mob “security personnel” running everything) I was shocked at the counterfeits I saw everywhere.
Now I’m not talking about computer software, as that's inevitable. What surprised me most were the vehicle counterfeits. Yes, you’d have your legitimate Benz here and there, but the general public mostly drove knock-offs from China. I saw countless fake vehicles everywhere, Toyotas to Dodge vehicles each having a Chinese cousin.
Chinese manufacturer JAC will be debuting the 4R3 at the Beijing Motor Show. The 4R3 is essentially a Ford F-150 copy. JAC is aiming to release the 4R3 in South American and African markets as an inexpensive work vehicle. The truck is powered by a diesel propelled four-banger, set to generate a little over a 100 horsepower and 177 torques. Though we’re not sure on what Ford has to say about this, we've gotta assume that it’s only a matter of time before JAC hears from Ford legal!
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Lady Gaga and Katy Perry Banned In China
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Rumors, Pop,
Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys, and Katy Perry songs have all been banned in China. The Asian country's ministry of culture has deemed 100 tracks by artists unsuitable for its citizens telling websites selling and streaming them both legally and illegally to remove them before September 15 or face prosecution.
The ministry follows guidelines to ensure tracks are not in "poor taste and vulgar content," and claims the songs on its latest list have not been submitted for approval, which has to be done by the song's writer themselves. While most of the songs are by artists from Taiwan and Honk Kong, six of Lady Gaga's tracks have been banned: "The Edge of Glory," "Hair," "Marry the Night," "Americano," "Judas," and "Bloody Mary."
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