Nestled in the sun-kissed hills of Provence, just north of Cannes and Antibes, is Sophia Antipolis, a renowned technology and science hub that is home to SAP subsidiary SAP Labs France. There are worse places to work. Surrounded by Aleppo pines and the odd palm, this modern building has been chosen to host the company’s…
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A Lords committee is calling on the government to make market competition in artificial intelligence (AI) “an explicit policy objective” while criticising its “inadequate and deteriorating” position on the use of copyrighted material in large language models (LLMs).Following the release of a government response to the Communications and Digital Committee’s report on LLMs and generative…
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There is already a “comprehensive legal framework” in place to govern the police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR), the UK government has said in response to a Lords committee that found the technology is being deployed without proper scrutiny or accountability. Writing to the Home Secretary on 27 January 2024, the Lords Justice and…
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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of its 9th generation of V-NAND memory. The first dies based on their latest NAND tech come in a 1 Tb capacity using a triple-level cell (TLC) architecture, with data transfer rates as high as 3.2 GT/s. The new 3D TLC NAND memory will initially be used to build…
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The Software AG International User Groups conference (IUG24) in Dublin was told this week of the supplier’s distinctive mission for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) – the democratisation of business process mining and management. Stefan Sigg, chief product officer at the German enterprise software group, told a gathering of media and analysts ahead of his keynote…
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Seagate Technology has reportedly notified its customers abouts its plans to raise prices on new hard drive orders and for demands that exceed prior agreements, echoing a similar move by Western Digital, which increased its prices earlier this month. These changes come in response to a surge in demand for high-capacity HDDs and constraints in…
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Qualcomm isn’t wasting any time filling out its ultra-portable PC chip roster, adding a new Snapdragon X Plus range to slide in behind its still-fresh and high-end Snapdragon X Elite.If this mobile PC SoC approach sounds similar, that’s because Qualcomm is taking almost the same approach as Apple with its ARM-based silicon, but in reverse.…
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. provided several important updates about its upcoming process technologies at its North American Technology Symposium 2024. At a high level, TSMC’s 2 nm plans remain largely unchanged: the company is on track to start volume production of chips on it’s first-generation GAAFET N2 node in the second half of 2025, and N2P…
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While the bulk of attention on TSMC is aimed at its leading-edge nodes, such as N3E and N2, loads of chips will continue to be made using more mature and proven process technologies for years to come. Which is why TSMC has continued to refine its existing nodes, including its current-generation 5nm-class offerings. To that…
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All industries are facing a growing skills gap that is blocking them from effectively implementing artificial intelligence (AI), but this gap is deepest in the public sector, with 60% identifying a shortage of AI skills as their top implementation challenge, according to a study by Salesforce. In the US, federal government agencies are already being…
