BlockBeats News, December 12 — Brennan Watt, Vice President of Core Engineering at Solana research and development company Anza, stated at the Solana Breakpoint conference that proposal SIMD-0389 could reduce Solana account creation rent by 10 times, potentially scalable to a 100-fold reduction. Note: In the Solana network, Account Rent refers to the "storage fee" mechanism required for an account to permanently store data on the chain. According to Anza's analysis of the security slowdown mechanism, this change was discussed at the recent SolanaConf and may involve reclaiming hundreds of millions of dormant accounts.

Gate News bot, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that ChatGPT queries use only 0.34 watt-hours, which is equivalent to the amount of electricity used by an oven for a second or a light bulb for a few minutes.

Golden Finance reports that the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Watt, stated that Moody's downgrade of the rating is an attempt to time the impact on the U.S.'s ability to pass the budget bill.

Jinshi Data News on March 13th, Hengdian Dongci stated at the investor online conference on March 12th that if the impact of high-profit markets is excluded in the first quarter, there will be pressure on the profit level at the component end compared to the previous period. Demand and capacity utilization rate in March are increasing. Currently, the increase in raw material prices has been reflected, but the increase in component prices has not been fully transmitted. It is expected that there will be a proper recovery in the second quarter. The company continues to focus on differentiation competition strategy. In the past few years, when everyone was profitable, the company's profit contribution of a few extra cents per watt due to differentiation was not prominent. However, when returning to the essence of operation, the company's operating value will be highlighted.

James Watt, a man from Indiana, USA, was sentenced to three years probation for forging about 30,000 fake identity cards. He received 14 BTC (about $1.4 million) as compensation, and his excellent forgery skills were discovered. The US Department of Justice has seized his illegal proceeds in accordance with a court order.

On September 26th, Jinshi Data reported that Intel announced the launch of the Xeon 6 performance core processor. Compared with the Xeon 5 scalable processor, the Xeon 6 processor has up to twice the number of cores per core, an average single-core performance increase of 1.2 times, an average per watt performance increase of up to 1.6 times, and can be used to support data centers, cloud computing, and many AI acceleration computing scenarios.

S&P Global's Platts Energy Information has launched a daily spot market price assessment for PV modules in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, tracking spot prices for six different specifications of modules. The assessment reflects prices of modules with 182-210 silicon wafer sizes, TOPcon specifications, and 570-720W output power, displayed in cents per watt.

Jinshi data news on June 6th, Intel (INTC.O) announced the launch of its Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processor. In the official design, the energy-efficient core processor is specifically optimized for high core density and scale expansion tasks, while the performance core processor focuses on optimizing high performance for compute-intensive and AI workloads. Compared to the second-generation Xeon processor released in 2019, the Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processor can provide up to 4.2 times the rack performance improvement and up to 2.6 times the performance improvement per watt, which can provide computing power and infrastructure support for AI projects. It is reported that in addition to the energy-efficient core, the Xeon 6 performance core processor will be officially launched in the next quarter.

Golden Ten Data on May 9, the reporter learned from the Department of Natural Resources of Jiangsu Province that the sea used for the 2 million k watt tidal flat photovoltaic demonstration project in China Nuclear Tianwan has recently been approved by the State Council. With an approved sea area of 1,875.7761 hectares (about 28,000 mu), a total investment of about 9 billion yuan and an average annual output value of about 880 million yuan, the project is currently the largest offshore photovoltaic project in China.

On April 30, the China Electricity Council released a brief summary of the national electricity market transactions from January to March 2024 on April 30. From January to March, the country's power trading centers organized and completed a total of 1,424.84 billion k watt-hours of market transactions, an rise of 7.7% year-on-year, accounting for 61.0% of the total electricity consumption, down 1.5 percentage points year-on-year. Among them, the total amount of long-term direct electricity trading in the national electricity market was 1,125.48 billion k watt hours, an rise of 6% year-on-year. In March, the country's power trading centers organized and completed market transactions of 484.6 billion k watt hours, a year-on-year rise of 5.6%. Among them, the total amount of long-term direct electricity trading in the national electricity market was 384.77 billion k watt hours, an rise of 4.2% year-on-year.