Tim Danton

1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

Can you smell the grass? Wimbledon 2025 is hurtling towards us faster than a Perricard serve*, and its technology partner IBM has announced its all-new, AI-enhanced experience. This year it’s Match Chat, an interactive, know-it-all assistant designed to answer fans’ questions. This is based on IBM’s own large language models, which it trains on information related to the “language of tennis”.

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

Researchers at Imperial College London will benefit from one of the world’s most sustainable supercomputers when the HX2 is installed later this year, Intel has announced at ISC High Performance Computing 2025. The news comes two years after Imperial College, Lenovo and Intel signed on the dotted line for a sustainable HPC with AI capabilities, with today’s announcement centering around the choice of an Intel Xeon 6 with Performance Cores.

3 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

IBM LinuxONE is the company’s range of pre-configured servers, and they have just been updated to the latest version: IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5. These have been designed for our Ai world, with built-in AI accelerators to handle these popular new workloads. These are rack-mounted machines with a modular design. If you want the balance to towards compute power, that’s fine; likewise if you need extra AI acceleration, more memory or heaps of storage.

3 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

A quick tip for owners of Huawei and Honor phones who are wondering, as I did for a while, how to read QR codes. It’s actually incredibly easy, but only if you know how. Here’s the “secret” way to activate the QR reader on Huawei and Honor phones. If your screen is locked, the quickest option is to swipe up from the bottom where you’ll see, from left to right, icons for quick record, torch, calculator, timer and Huawei’s AI Lens app.

1 month ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

Intel has used the extreme tech conference Computex, which takes place in Taiwan each year, to announce that Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are now available in PCIe and rack scale systems. It also announced that Intel AI Assistant Builder is publicly available on GitHub and two GPUs aimed at workstations: the Intel Arc Pro B60 and Intel Arc Pro B50.