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Soort Sinterklaas maar dan andersom. Met 180 km/u in 2,5 seconden uit een 350 meter hoge schoorsteen gejankt. Dat kost u dan: 4.2G en als je niet out gaat lukt het je om precies op het gewichtsloze moment te high-fiven en daarna op tijd aan je parachutekoord te trekken. En we willen op zich niks verklappen, maar dat lukt.

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Moscow police have been ramping up the pressure on teenagers in Kitai-Gorod — a popular hangout spot — for months.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op de Amsterdamse beurs is dinsdag met kleine winst gesloten, mede geholpen door de chipbedrijven die verder stegen na de recente uitverkoop in de AI-sector. De aandacht van beleggers bleef uitgaan naar de affaire van topman Jensen Huang van AI-chipconcern Nvidia met een vermeende Chinese spion. Daarnaast kwam AI-bedrijf Anthropic met details over zijn beursgang en werden cijfers gemeld over de Amerikaanse inflatie.

ASML, ASMI en Besi gingen tot 2,6 procent vooruit, waarmee werd voortgeborduurd op de stijgingen van maandag. Zij profiteerden van de stevige plussen in de chipsector in New York van maandag. Nvidia ging echter wel omlaag door alle onrust rond de affaire van Huang, die nu wordt onderzocht door de FBI. Ook zijn aandeelhouders een rechtszaak begonnen tegen Nvidia en Huang vanwege misleiding.

De AEX eindigde 0,2 procent hoger op 1132,44 punten. Op maandag won de hoofdindex 0,8 procent. De MidKap klom 0,4 procent tot 1123,96 punten, na de plus van 1,2 procent op maandag.

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Op de beurzen in Parijs en Frankfurt werden winsten behaald tot 0,6 procent. Londen sloot 0,3 procent lager.

Anthropic, het bedrijf achter chatbot Claude, kondigde aan dat de introductieprijs van zijn aandelen tussen de 70 en 78 dollar per stuk ligt. Met de beursgang, die mogelijk volgende week plaatsvindt, verwacht het bedrijf tot ruim 64 miljard dollar op te halen. De totale marktwaarde zou bij de beursgang, een van de grootste ooit, rond de 1,4 biljoen dollar liggen.

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De Amerikaanse inflatie viel in oktober iets hoger uit dan verwacht, waardoor de kans op een renteverhoging door de Federal Reserve in december groter is geworden. In september kwam de Fed nog met de eerste renteverhoging in ruim drie jaar om de hoge inflatie tegen te gaan.

Shell stond opnieuw bij de dalers in de AEX met een min van 2 procent. Het olie- en gasconcern werd door de Spaanse bank Santander van de kooplijst gehaald. Daarnaast gingen de olieprijzen verder omlaag.

Bij de kleinere fondsen op Beursplein 5 dook de producent van elektromagnetische componenten Kendrion 10 procent in het rood na bekendmaking van kwartaalcijfers.

Felle kleuren en spaarpotjes op de website, de „cruciale systemen” van ABN Amro op de achtergrond: neobank Buut richt zich expliciet op jongeren. „Financieel opvoeden is lastig. Laten we eerlijk zijn.”

AMD's upcoming Verano processors aren't like any Epyc CPUs we've seen before. Rather than general-purpose workloads, Verano is designed specifically to power AMD's next generation of GPU servers. In an interview with The Register during a press event in Las Vegas last week, Madhu Rangarajan, CVP of AMD's compute and enterprise AI products business, described Verano as being the first step towards building something that more closely resembles Nvidia's Vera Rubin superchips. "Verano is really designed for an integrated CPU+GPU rack scale solution," he said. "From that perspective, I wouldn't say the CPU is a competitor to Vera. In a head note, I'd say the Verano+GPU solution is a competitor to Vera+Rubin." For reference, Vera Rubin and the GB200 and GB300 that came before it aren't your typical server platforms. Instead they're more like an enormous single-board computer combining CPUs and GPUs into a tightly-integrated package. Each of Nvidia's superchips joins a single 88-core Vera CPU and 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory to a pair of Rubin GPUs via Nvidia's speedy NVLink-C2C interconnect. Rangarajan tells us Verano will be the host CPU for a similar class of product using AMD GPUs, and much like Nvidia's superchips, the CPU will also use notebook memory rather than conventional RDIMMS. However, unlike Vera, which is also being deployed as a standalone CPU in storage servers and agent sandboxes, Verano has a singular purpose: keeping its GPUs fed. (We assume they'll be MI500X GPUs.) This design choice reflects AMD's philosophy of one SKU per workload. As such, Verano's core count, clock speeds, memory bandwidth, power, and I/O have been rebalanced to keep its GPUs fed and not much else. Under the hood If we were to peel back Verano's heat spreader, the chip looks a lot like the Venice Epycs we looked at back in September. It features either six of AMD's core complex dies (CCDs) for a total of 72 high-frequency cores clocking to 5.3 GHz, or 192 density-optimized cores clocking to 4.1 GHz, depending on whether the customer's workloads prefer core density or faster clocks. But that's about where the visual similarities end. Much of the chip has been reworked to eliminate data flow bottlenecks between the CPU and the GPUs it is responsible for feeding. The chip features an entirely custom pair of I/O dies through which four LPDDR5X memory controllers are attached. Those memory controllers are currently being validated for use with 24 channels of memory at up to 8,533 MT/s. We're told that we may see that creep up a bit depending on how much headroom AMD has when the part starts shipping next year, but for now that's what AMD is validating against. That means the platform not only has fewer cores, but also slower memory. Peak theoretical memory bandwidth tops out at around 800 GB/s, which you might have noticed is half of what AMD's top-specced Venice parts can do and about 66 percent of Nvidia's Vera. What LPDDR seems to buy AMD is a 30 to 40 percent reduction in power consumption compared to RDIMMS, as well as a more compact footprint for liquid cooling. But it also comes with some downsides. In its first incarnation, Verano won't be socketed. Instead it'll use a ball-grid array (BGA) that's soldered to the board, which will make it harder to service. "LPDDR tends to be quite finicky in terms of speeds. Every time you go through a connector, you tend to lose a pin or two, and you already have one connector with the SoCam itself. So to minimize any of those losses in speed, we went BGA on the CPU," Rangarajan told us. Unlike with a lot of notebooks, the memory itself won't be soldered down and will use the same SOCAMM2 modules found in Nvidia's Vera-Rubin and Vera-Vera CPU Superchips. Even so, Verano looks like a bit of a downgrade compared to Venice except when it comes to CPU-to-GPU connectivity. Fatter pipes Historically, AMD's CPU-to-GPU communication has been done over PCIe. It works but has usually required PCIe switches to keep up with all the GPUs, NICs, and storage on board. Nvidia's superchip dispensed with this, replacing PCIe with its NVLink-C2C interconnect, which provides 900 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth to each of the system's GPUs. Venice and Verano do something similar. Unlike past Instinct accelerators, AMD's latest generation of GPUs aren't limited to PCIe for CPU-to-GPU communication. Instead, starting with Venice, AMD transitioned to using xGMI. Global memory interconnect (GMI) is how AMD has moved data between chiplets on its CPUs, GPUs, and APUs for several generations now. xGMI extends this to GPU-to-GPU and CPU-to-GPU communications. With Venice, xGMI link bandwidth tops out at 64 Gbps per lane, which the keen-eyed among you have probably already figured out is the same as PCIe 6.0. Verano takes this to another level. As we mentioned earlier, Verano disaggregated the memory controllers, and AMD appears to have reclaimed that space for fatter serializer deserializers (SerDes). Instead of 64 Gbps per lane, Verano's xGMI links top out at 112 Gbps, effectively giving it near PCIe 7.0 levels of bandwidth years before the spec ships in production CPUs. Rangarajan explains this is driven by what AMD's GPUs need to run optimally. AMD hasn't disclosed the ratio of CPUs to GPUs it's aiming for with Verano, so it's difficult to say how it compares to Nvidia. In a 2:1 ratio of GPUs to CPUs like we saw in Vera Rubin, Verano would deliver identical chip-to-chip bandwidth, while in a 1:4 ratio like we see in AMD's Helios racks, we'd be looking at about half the bandwidth at 448 GB/s. It's also not clear whether AMD has increased the number of xGMI links per I/O die for Verano or not, so bandwidth per GPU could be even higher. We expect more info closer to the MI500X's debut next year. Part of a broader ecosystem AMD doesn't expect Verano to replace Venice in every AI rack: The chip is designed specifically for use with Instinct accelerators. Moreover, AMD isn't waiting for Verano to roll out its Helios rackscale systems. As we discussed during Advancing AI earlier this year, those systems will feature 18 96-core Venice CPUs paired to 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs. Moving forward, AMD expects its Venice to remain a popular host processor for AI head nodes not just for its own GPUs but for the growing number of homegrown accelerators built by the great model houses. ®

From Agatha Christie to a new generation of crime writers, cryptic crosswords have long held a place in murder-mystery fiction. Debut novelist and Guardian crossword setter Alys Cummings explains why the two make such natural companions

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A cryptic crossword and a murder mystery are each bound by an unspoken agreement between the creator and reader: I will give you enough information to solve this, but you must put the pieces together yourself.

So it’s no wonder that crime writers, from Agatha Christie to Dorothy L Sayers, and TV shows, from Inspector Morse to Inside No 9, have been drawn to the puzzles in their stories. The latest writer to enter the cruciverbalist crime arena is Alys Cummings, whose debut novel, Murder Most Cryptic, was published in October.

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Jason Leon Watford said he ‘snapped’ after verbal dispute with the woman, before allegedly killing her in a cabin

A passenger of a Texas-based cruise ship has been charged with murdering a woman in their cabin on Sunday on the first day of their voyage.

Crew members aboard the MSC Seascape found the unidentified victim deceased and face down on the cabin floor, with Jason Leon Watford sitting in a corridor outside scrolling through his phone, according to an FBI affidavit that details the alleged crime.

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De rechterbuis van de Drechttunnel (A16) richting Rotterdam is dinsdag in de avondspits afgesloten. Dat komt door een kapotte vrachtwagen die olie achterliet op het wegdek. De vertraging liep rond 17:50 uur op tot ongeveer een uur.