1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,040 AI chip startup, Dematrix, has created an AI accelerator 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,120 that blows NVIDIA's GPUs out of the water, 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:11,280 at least according to the startup's own charts. NVIDIA says the cannonball missed entirely. 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:16,440 I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked, and this is the Dematrix Corsair C8. 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:21,320 No, Corsair, the company is involved, just... And it's allegedly nine times faster 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,080 than NVIDIA's flagship H100 GPU in generative AI workloads, 7 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:29,720 and 27 times faster than the A100. 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,720 It was actually created by asking an AI to design the perfect chip, that's a lie. 9 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,160 The C8 Secret Sauce is its digital in-memory computer, 10 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:41,720 or DIMC architecture, designed to mitigate issues 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,720 that arise with LLMs running on normal GPUs, 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,560 as well as its 256 gigabytes of LPDDR5 RAM, 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,160 enough to hold an entire AI model in memory. 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:59,280 Their technology was apparently impressive enough to earn Dematrix $110 million in funding last week, 15 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,760 which sounds like nothing to me, because I'm desensitized. From companies like Microsoft, 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,800 who are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to watch NVIDIA win the blue ribbon 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,360 at a humble pie eating contest. The funding Dematrix has been able to raise 18 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:17,800 is doubly impressive, since NVIDIA's massive success in the AI chip market has been starving, 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:24,040 competing startups of potential funding. As VCs have been seeing young startups as a riskier bet, 20 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,480 than simply making a mint for merely the price of increasing Jensen Wong's leather jacket allowance. 21 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,480 But I don't know, it seems like Jensen may have to downgrade to, 22 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,240 oh, pleather? They might be pleather already. 23 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,560 It's so good now. It got even brilliant guys. Google will face the start of a four month long trial 24 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:46,020 in the US tomorrow over their position as the dominant search engine in the country. 25 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:49,080 This lawsuit is a combination of two separate complaints, 26 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:54,480 one filed by the Department of Justice, and another filed by the Attorney's General of 35 States, 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,600 the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam 28 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,280 that have merged together, like a Voltron, formed by combining a bunch of boring text heavy papers 29 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,760 collated by overworked paralegals. It's not a very good Voltron. 30 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,720 According to Bill Bayer, who used to head the DOJ's antitrust division, 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,040 the result of this trial will have significant implications 32 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:21,140 for other powerful tech firms, who may have to now deal with, oh, so many more emails. 33 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:26,040 Companies like Apple and Mozilla, who are paid to set Google as the default search engine 34 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,680 in their products, could also be harmed for the crime of helping out a friend 35 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,400 for massive sums of money. Even worse for Apple, three of their executives 36 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,640 may have to miss the launch of the iPhone 15 37 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:41,160 to act as key witnesses in the trial, which is just inhumane. 38 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,000 That's like their comic con. WhatsApp is preparing to add the capability 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,960 to send and receive messages from other chat apps, thanks to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:57,080 which puts strong regulations on companies large enough to meet the law's definition of gatekeeper. 41 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,920 And this may seem counterintuitive, but meta fits the bill. 42 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:04,200 As a gatekeeper, meta will be subject to many requirements, 43 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,800 such as having to make out with Rick Moranis to release Gozer. 44 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,920 That is a Ghostbusters reference that Jacob wrote that I do not understand. 45 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:16,000 Deep cut. More relevant, however, is the requirement that any company with a messaging app 46 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,880 that has over 45 million active users, or about 10% of the EU's population, 47 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,760 must make said messaging app interoperable with other apps. 48 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,760 WA Beta Info, a apparently WhatsApp-specific news site, 49 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,640 uncovered evidence of WhatsApp's future compatibility in their newest update in the Google Play Beta program, 50 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,600 which shows a dedicated section of the app for third-party chats. 51 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,960 Meanwhile, Apple is claiming that iMessage doesn't have the required 45 million active users, 52 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,160 and thus does not need to be interoperable. They claim further that now is a great time 53 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,200 to buy beachfront properties in Idaho to escape the US's flying pig epidemic. 54 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,640 No, really, guys, we suck. We wish more people loved us, 55 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:03,440 but we're just, we're not that cool. Okay, and next, we'll add the quick bits to the batter. 56 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,960 Remember, if you don't have time to quicken your own bits, then store-bought is fine. 57 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,960 LG has unveiled a massive 118-inch micro-LED TV. 58 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,200 That's a whole 1.6 Riley Murdoch's long. 59 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,280 Jacob wrote that, I don't know if it's true. It's a new standard unit. 60 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:23,960 Did he measure me? The new magnet with an i-television 61 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,600 has a 120 Hertz refresh rate and a level of power consumption 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:33,240 meant to show polar bears who's boss. When you turn it on, the lights in the neighbor's house flicker. 63 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,320 Not that it matters because none of us plebs are likely to buy one, 64 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,600 if only because it costs nearly a quarter million dollars, 65 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,960 which around here is a down payment on a house. That's, that story got depressing. 66 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,960 In a bad part of town. Yeah. 67 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:52,280 Help. Apple's plan to rely entirely on itself 68 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:56,480 for its own device's chips apparently isn't going so well. As Qualcomm just announced, 69 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:01,200 it would continue supplying the iPhone maker with 5G modems into 2026 70 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:06,120 because no cultish tech giant with a gigantic circular headquarters is an island. 71 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,640 Qualcomm CEO said he expected Apple to make their own modems by 2024. 72 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,520 So I'm sure he's thankful for the extra revenue, especially as Qualcomm also just announced, 73 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,800 they'd be heavily investing in risk five, an alternative CPU architecture to ARM 74 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,800 the company who is currently suing Qualcomm. 75 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,080 It's never a good thing when tech industry news sounds like a gossip grow column, 76 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,120 which is actually very often. Patent company, an occasional game publisher, 77 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,080 Nintendo has filed another patent this time for joysticks 78 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,800 that hopefully don't suck harder than your dad's prized vacuum cleaner. 79 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:44,520 For harder than your dad. Accessibility consultant and thrice first named person, 80 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:50,040 Laura Kate Dale, claimed on Twitter, the proposed joysticks should end analog stick drift 81 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,880 in Nintendo's next console. Instead of using Hall effect joysticks like everyone wants, 82 00:05:54,880 --> 00:06:01,240 Nintendo has come up with their own solution using magnetoreological fluid 83 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,660 that varies in viscosity as magnetic field intensity changes. 84 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,960 That sounds amazing. I mean, of course, why use a successful preexisting technology when you can own a technology 85 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,360 that relies on magic goo. Dale has teamed up with the University of Limerick 86 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,840 in Ireland to research cancer treatments using AI, 87 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:24,680 despite warnings from experts about the risk of creating robot cancer. 88 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,880 I lost my room but a robot cancer. The project will use digital twin technology, 89 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:34,960 which creates digital models of physical things, like in this case, tumors, to improve biomarker testing 90 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,400 and better predict treatment outcomes. Meanwhile, Microsoft has also partnered 91 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,640 with medical tech company Page to build the world's largest image based AI model 92 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,320 for faster diagnosis. Because I mean, the least AI could do is help cure cancer 93 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,440 while it's transforming the internet into hot garbage soup. 94 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,760 And Sony is launching a foster care program 95 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:01,240 for its aging robo dogs. The program will allow users who've canceled the cloud plan 96 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,240 for their ERS 1000 IBO robots to donate them for rehoming 97 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,240 as patient companions at medical facilities and nursing homes. 98 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,600 The robots simulate the love of an actual animal by responding to voice and touch 99 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,360 and even recognizing specific people. It's just like adopting a real dog, 100 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,280 except that some of them will be gutted for spare parts and used to repair the others. 101 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,520 And we'll be equally gutted if you don't come back on Wednesday for more TechLinked.