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Technology Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Joins VC Firm to Revive Moore's Law Using Light-Based Chips
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined venture capital firm Playground Global as a general partner, taking a board seat at xLight, a startup developing novel lithography techniques using light. Gelsinger believes that advances in nanometer-scale light etching can revive Moore's Law, which has stalled due to physical limits of transistor shrinking.
FP8 Debunks FP64 as HPC Holy Grail in New Paper from Satoshi Matsuoka
A new arXiv preprint by Satoshi Matsuoka challenges the long-held belief that native FP64 hardware is essential for high-performance scientific computing. The paper proposes that FP8 tensor-core operations, combined with the Ozaki Scheme II, can deliver equivalent double-precision accuracy, reducing FP64 from a hardware requirement to a derived guarantee. The analytical framework is tested across a five-layer hierarchy, projecting improved performance on upcoming NVIDIA GPUs.
Technology SpaceX Gigasat Factory Aims to Build Orbital AI Data Centers at 1GW per Year by
SpaceX has unveiled plans for a massive factory in Bastrop, Texas, to produce AI satellites for space-based data centers. The Gigasat facility, covering 11 million square feet, will manufacture the AI1 spacecraft, each delivering 150kW of compute power. Elon Musk targets 1GW of annual orbital AI compute capacity by late 2027, comparing with terrestrial facilities like Meta's 5GW Hyperion and xAI's 2GW Colossus 2.