Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family built with MediaTek on TSMC 3, plus a DGX Station desktop that runs 1T-parameter models. Intel detailed its Crescent Island GPUs, MiniMax launched a coding model rivaling Opus 4.7 at 1/40th the price, and Anthropic bans AI in interviews. Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls &quot;the most efficient PC chip ever built&quot;, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek (The Verge) Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them &quot;built for agentic AI&quot; (Tom&#x27;s Hardware) Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (SiliconAngle) Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (The Information) A look at Anthropic&#x27;s hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Brian McCullough. Today, NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark, an ARM-based consumer chip family, plus a DGX station desktop that runs 1 trillion parameter models. Minimax launched a coding model rivaling Opus 4.7 at 1 40th the price, and Anthropic bans the use of AI in their own job interview process. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

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For example, NVIDIA announced the RTS Spark, an ARM-based consumer chip family that it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. It's made on TSMC3 in partnership with MediaTek, quoting The Verge. The RTX Spark is effectively the same GB10 chip that's in the DGX Spark, the tiny personal AI supercomputer that NVIDIA released last year, only now it's a family of chips instead of just one.

The flagship version appears to be spec-to-spec identical with 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, and 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory. But NVIDIA says there'll be lesser versions later targeting lower prices and with as little as 16 GB of RAM.

Like Apple and Qualcomm's chips, this NVIDIA chip is ARM-based silicon, meaning legacy Windows software made for Intel and AMD's x86 processors need to run through an emulation layer to work. That can mean lower performance. But Microsoft has now spent years getting Windows and its Prism emulator ready for Qualcomm and now NVIDIA chips, and NVIDIA claims its own graphics and AI chops will take the idea further than ever before.

With the power of the RTX Spark NVIDIA boasts, you can render a 90 GB 3D scene, edit 12K resolution video, or play the g...

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Interviewing For A Job At Anthropic? DON’T Use AI.

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Every day you wait, your competitors are findingedge in conversations you're not hearing.

Every day you wait, your competitors are finding
edge in conversations you're not hearing.