How accurate are my material analyses? Calibration is mandatory!

Of course, we remember my last measurements on the radiators and the respective material analyses, some of which showed different things than the customer (or manufacturer) actually expected. Apart from the fact that alloys are often not 100% homogeneous, major deviations should of course not occur. Yes, trace elements below one wt% are more of a [...]


LLMs conquer laptops: NVIDIA and HP CEOs hail AI-enabled PCs

In an informal discussion, the CEOs of NVIDIA and HP have now predicted that 2024 will be the year when generative AI becomes personal. They unveiled new laptops capable of creating, testing and executing large-scale language models. At HP Amplify, a gathering in Las Vegas of some 1,500 resellers and distributors, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen [...]


Parts of AMD GPU firmware could become open source – talks with Tiny Corp

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, Tiny Corp is pretty sure that AMD could open source its Radeon firmware by next week. Tiny Corp and AMD have been talking about issues that have arisen in preparation for the RX 700XTX Tiny Box, which was intended for AI tasks. If AMD decides to use an open source platform, Tiny Corp and other developers could [...]


Why children should NOT learn programming, according to Nvidia boss

At the World Government Summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang broke with an old tradition where young people are advised by technology CEOs to learn programming at all costs. He said that even if AI is still at an early stage, it is better to leave it to them and it is no longer a vital skill. Young people should rather focus on valuable skills such as [...]


Google’s Gemma is optimized for NVIDIA GPUs

Google’s new AI model Gemma was recently unveiled. So far, so exciting. However, NIVIDIA announced that it had worked with Google to optimize its AI model for NVIDIA GPUs. And that will be exciting. With Google Gemma, a new AI model was presented, which is a state-of-the-art, lightweight open language model, including models with 2 and 7 [...]


UPRtek MK550T Spectroradiometer presented and in use – Upgrade of our monitor test setup and basics of measurement technology

I’ve been officially testing monitors at Igor’sLab for almost two years now. I started out quite rudimentary with a very cheap colorimeter, the SpyderX and a mixture of DisplayCal and the SpyderX software. Everyone starts small, of course. The whole thing then developed quite quickly and we gradually upgraded and managed to get [...]


Intel Panther Lake: AI performance doubled, Clearwater in production

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced during the Q4 2024 earnings call that the Core Ultra platform will be expanded later this year to include new families such as Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake. This will potentially increase AI performance by 3x. In 2025, the Core Ultra series will see a further 2x performance boost with the introduction of Panther [...]


AI PCs: next-gen markets, next-gen experience

Our colleagues at WCCFTECH have also had their thoughts on AI. After all, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in almost every major technology sector seems to be progressing inexorably worldwide. Recently, the term “AI PC” has also taken on a new meaning in terms of its use by technology giants. Based on previous [...]


CES News

CES: New mobile CPUs with improved AI capability

AMD’s Ryzen 8040 series, also known as “Hawk Point”, is based on the Zen 4 architecture and represents a major advance in AMD’s mobile processor offering. These processors, which are expected to launch on January 31, 2024, are designed as an update to the previous Phoenix 7040 series and do not represent a complete overhaul [...]