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Nvidia on Sunday unveiled its next generation of artificial intelligence chips to succeed the previous model, which was announced just months earlier in March.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the new AI chip architecture, dubbed "Rubin," ahead of the COMPUTEX tech conference in Taipei.Rubin comes months after the March announcement of the upcoming "Blackwell" model, which is still in production and expected to ship to customers later in 2024.Huang's announcement of Rubin appears to quicken the company's already-accelerated pace of AI chip advancement.Nvidia has pledged to release new AI chip models on a "one-year rhythm," as Huang put it on Sunday....

COMPUTEX 2019, the world’s biggest computer trade show, opened in Taipei with dazzling 5G, AI & IoT, blockchain, and gaming offerings, but little interest in China. Computex, following the launch of 4G/LTE, peaked in 2012 with over 140,000 visitors inundating 1,800 exhibitors in 5,400 booths. The trade show then suffered a six-year decline as customers moved from desktops and laptops, to phablets and high-functioning smartphones. But 2019 boomed to a recovery high -- 1,685 exhibitors in 5,508 booths as China was set to launch the world’s first commercial 5G network in 2020. Although the Peoples’ Republic of China does not...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple executives walking around the Computex show in Taipei this week should be feeling pretty good. Several products were on display from local Taiwanese vendors that, while perhaps not exact copies of Apple products, were surely inspired by them. One of the highest-profile such products was a small desktop PC from AOpen Inc. The computer was on show at the booths of both AOpen and Intel Corp. as part of an Intel effort to promote the use of the Pentium M processor in small PCs, although the version on show was...