Sam Altman released a note on the future of II; Micron developed the first domestic UHF chip for RFID tags with a reading range of up to 14 meters; The ten most promising semiconductor startups of 2024; And much more.

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Russia

DK “Element” has launched a new production line in Voronezh for the assembly of microcircuits in metal-polymer housings with a capacity of up to 10 million units per year, using a soft loan from the Russian Federation.

The Russian government plans to extend for three years and expand tax benefits for the microelectronics industry, including manufacturers of equipment and materials.

Russian scientists have created a 50-qubit quantum ion computer.

Russian IT companies are creating joint ventures with Indian partners for tablets based on the Alt OS, as well as laptops and servers based on Elbrus processors in India.

The Russian company “Aquarius” plans to increase the production of computer equipment to 2.5 million units per year by the end of 2025, focusing on state customers and large companies with state participation.

Micron developed the first domestic UHF chip for RFID tags with a reading range of up to 14 meters.

The Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center continues the development of the first domestic lithographer with the planned completion of work on a version with topological norms of 130 nm by 2026.

Is modern chip design possible without the use of purchased IP blocks – that is the view of the director of the Baikal Electronics design center.

The MCST company, the developer of Elbrus processors, became a partner of “Open Mobile Platform”, the creator of the Aurora OS, with the aim of developing fully domestic solutions for secure mobile infrastructure that combine the capabilities of the Elbrus processors and the Aurora OS software environment.

The most awkward questions for the developers of Elbrus:

World

Meta* introduced Orion* advanced AR glasses with an innovative MicroLED display, wide field of view and AI control, aiming for future mass production.

Intel has demonstrated working samples of Clearwater Forest server processors manufactured using the 18-angstrom process (Intel 18A), which confirms the company’s readiness to quickly switch to this advanced technology in serial production.

Intel completely lost market share in discrete GPUs, while NVIDIA and AMD increased their shipments.

Qualcomm recently approached Intel with a proposal for a possible takeover of the company.

Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games, which raises speculation about the development of new hardware based on this architecture.

Nvidia is preparing for release the RTX 5090 video card with 32 GB of GDDR7 memory and increased power consumption of 600 W.

Qualcomm, the maker of smartphone chips, has announced the layoff of 226 employees in San Diego as part of a business streamlining.

The ten most promising semiconductor startups of 2024.

Nadia, a humanoid robot remotely controlled by a human for boxing training using a motion capture system in virtual reality, was demonstrated.

AnySkin is a tactile sensor for robots that is easy to install and replace.

News II

Russia

The Russian startup Metamentor, which develops corporate solutions based on generative AI, has attracted 40 million rubles of investment from four business angels at a company valuation of 100 million rubles.

The movement of completely unmanned trucks has been launched along the M-11 Neva highway, which is part of the Unmanned Logistics Corridors project and an important step in the development of autonomous freight transportation in Russia.

World

Sam Altman released a note on the future of AI.

OpenAI CTO Miru Murati is leaving the company to conduct his own research.

Google has released updated Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash models with improved quality, lower prices, and increased usage limits.

AI startup Anthropic is considering a new round of funding with a target valuation of $30-40 billion. This would roughly double the company’s valuation from its last funding round earlier this year.

Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung are discussing building mega-chip factories in the UAE with a potential investment of more than $100 billion.

Legendary director and visual effects innovator James Cameron has joined the board of directors of generative artificial intelligence company Stability AI.

China has launched the world’s first artificial intelligence hospital, where 14 AI doctors can treat 10,000 patients in a few days.

A Reddit user shares effective user guides for Claude Sonnet 3.5 to improve his programming skills. In the comments, he was advised to use the guide from Anthropic.

15 years ago, Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg predicted the emergence of AGI in 2025. Since then, it has followed roughly the same timeframe (2025-2028)

Models with Hugging Face and more

The Vikhr Team has released three new Russian language models: Vikhr-Nemo-12B-Instruct-R-21-09-24, Vikhr-Llama3.1-8B-Instruct-R-21-09-24 and Vikhr-Llama-3.2- 1B-Instruct.

Meta has released Llama 3.2*, a set of open source multimodal and language models capable of working with text and images.

How2Draw – A LoRA model for Stable Diffusion that allows you to generate images in the style of step-by-step drawing instructions.

The GitHub repository offers a large knowledge base and examples of GenAI agents, covering a wide range from simple chatbots to complex multi-agent systems using advanced artificial intelligence technologies.

Linux

Linus Torvalds recommends that open-source developers focus on significant projects, not hype.

Raspberry Pi

An enthusiast has used a Raspberry Pi Pico to create an inexpensive and reliable modchip that allows you to run unofficial software on the original Xbox, released 22 years ago.

Python libraries

How to send Wi-Fi morse code messages from Raspberry Pi to NodeMCU (ESP8266)

The developer created a Python script using AI to organize files locally on Linux devices without the need for an Internet connection.

The developers introduced version 0.6.0 of the Reflex framework, which allows you to create web applications entirely in Python without the need to use JavaScript.

The developer created his own Spiderweb web framework to better understand how web frameworks work.

An open-source Python library for obtaining data in markdown format from various sources using computer vision models.

Opik is a new open framework for evaluating large language models (LLM) that provides out-of-the-box metrics, step-by-step tracking, and testing APIs.

Developed the QuickApiClient library for Python, which allows you to easily create fully typed and declarative API clients.

Connor is a local NLP-based tool that organizes text content files by creating folders and grouping similar files.

ComiQ is an OCR library that combines traditional OCR engines with the Gemini Flash-1.5 model for accurate recognition and translation of text in comic images.

What to see

The Forgotten Lesson of US Memories: Why America Missed a Chance to Regain Memory Chip Leadership

In the late 1980s, when Japanese companies dominated the DRAM memory market, a group of American technology giants tried to create their own chip manufacturing. The ambitious US Memories project was supposed to restore US leadership in a critical industry, but it failed. This little-known story holds important lessons for today’s efforts to revive America’s semiconductor industry.

* Llama 3.2, Orion – products of Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist and prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.