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News.com.au
17-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
AFL 2025: Hawthorn will welcome back forward Mitch Lewis from injury this weekend
The much-anticipated wait for Mitch Lewis is almost over. The Hawthorn spearhead is set to play his first senior game in 378 days this weekend against Port Adelaide in Tasmania. Lewis was one of the hard luck stories in Hawthorn's dream run to September last year, going down with an ACL in round 17. The 26-year-old sought overseas advice on his knee and has been made to earn his place in the side through the VFL. He had kicked two and three goals in his first two matches for Box Hill but banged the selection door down with a haul of five against Essendon last week. Lewis is a welcome addition to the Hawks' front half after going down to Fremantle last weekend. The clash against the Power marks the return fixture of the Hawks' worst performance of the year – Gather Round. The Power piled on 12 of the first 13 goals in that game to hand Hawthorn its first loss of the year. Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell was unsure if he would readdress the Gather Round loss but confirmed he would reach into his 'kit bag' to keep the top-four hopes alive. 'They've had the wood over us lately, they've won certainly the last three,' Mitchell said. 'We haven't handled a couple of situations well … it's a big end to the season for every club and they're in the way of what we're trying to achieve. 'We'll prepare the players as best we can to get the outcome we want. 'There's a whole range of things in our kit bag that we can use for that – the last couple of times we've played Port is part of that. 'But whether we decide to show too much of that or not is to be determined.'
News.com.au
26-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Minor procedure helps Hawthorn captain James Sicily get over hip issue in time for team's run to finals
Hawthorn captain James Sicily was forced to undergo what his coach Sam Mitchell called a 'minor procedure' to address the hip issue that plagued him in the first half of the season and led to weekly questions about his form. Mitchell declared the move had 'sorted out' the problem for the skipper who could return against North Melbourne on Sunday and be more able to help his team's push for a possible top-four finish. Sicily trained with his teammates on Thursday and Mitchell wasn't willing to rule him in or out of what would be his first game since stepping away following the round 13 loss to Collingwood. '(Sicily) has obviously been dealing with the nervy hip thing … we've got a bit more of our head around it, he had a minor procedure which sorted out a big portion of it,' Mitchell said. 'Will he get up for this week? Training will tell us more about that, but it's definitely been beneficial for him.' Mitchell couldn't hide his excitement at the return of key forward Mitch Lewis from an ACL injury. Lewis had been growing his hair 'until he was ready to play' as he rehabbed the knee injury but with a return in the VFL set for this weekend, his hair was short and Mitchell knows he could be a useful weapon in the run to September. 'I think sometimes when guys come back from a knee they look tentative. He definitely has that,' Mitchell said. 'But I would say for the last five or six weeks he's looked ready to play. He's ready and excited to get back out there. 'We know that Mitch Lewis, he's a fantastic AFL player, and at our best, him being a big part of that, he's a significant part of our future. It's not something we have relied on, (but) is that something we hope can come good in the second half of the season? Absolutely.' Mitchell said Lewis, who has only managed four senior games in the last two years, could work in a forward line with Mabior Chol and Calsher Dear, who is coming back from a back fracture. Dear will also play in the VFL with Lewis this week with a view to the duo making their way into the AFL side, possibly together. 'I think everyone's watched a bit of Adelaide this year with the genuine three, big tall (forwards) and thought there's something about what they're doing that's pretty good … it doesn't look clunky at all, they look really smooth the way they move the ball,' Mitchell said. 'They're probably giving us a bit of insight into what it looks like, but as far as selection goes, you're always going to push that can down the road because you never know who is going to be available and when.'
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ZeroPoint Technologies Unveils Groundbreaking Compression Solution to Increase Foundational Model Addressable Memory by 50%
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroPoint Technologies AB today announced a breakthrough hardware-accelerated memory optimization product that enables the nearly instantaneous compression and decompression of deployed foundational models, including the leading large language models (LLMs). The new product, AI-MX, will be delivered to initial customers and partners in the second half of 2025 and will enable enterprise and hyperscale datacenters to realize a 1.5 times increase in addressable memory, memory bandwidth, and tokens served per second for applications that rely on large foundational models. The full technical specifications of AI-MX are available here. "Foundational models are stretching the limits of even the most sophisticated datacenter infrastructures. Demand for memory capacity, power, and bandwidth continues to expand quarter-upon-quarter," said Klas Moreau, CEO of ZeroPoint Technologies. "With today's announcement, we introduce a first-of-its-kind memory optimization solution that has the potential to save companies billions of dollars per year related to building and operating large-scale datacenters for AI applications." "Futurum Intelligence currently predicts the total AI software and tools market to reach a value of $440B by 2029 and Signal65 believes that ZeroPoint is positioned to address a key challenge within this fast-growing market with AI-MX," said Mitch Lewis, Performance Analyst at Signal65. "Signal65 believes that AI-MX is currently a unique offering and that with ongoing development and alignment with leading technology partners, there is strong growth opportunity for both ZeroPoint and AI-MX." ZeroPoint's proprietary hardware-accelerated compression, compaction, and memory management technologies operate at low nanosecond latencies, enabling them to work more than 1000 times faster than more traditional compression algorithms. For foundational model workloads, AI-MX enables enterprise and hyperscale datacenters to increase the addressable capacity and bandwidth of their existing memory by 1.5 times, while simultaneously gaining a significant increase in performance per watt. Critically, the new AI-MX product works across a broad variety of memory types, including HBM, LPDDR, GDDR and DDR – ensuring that the memory optimization benefits apply to nearly every possible AI acceleration use case. A summary of the benefits provided by the initial version of AI-MX include: Expands effective memory capacity by up to 50% This allows end-users to store AI model data more efficiently. For example, enabling 150GB of model data to fit within 100GB of HBM capacity. Enhances AI accelerator capacity An AI accelerator with 4 HBM stacks and AI-MX can operate as if it has the capacity of 6 HBM stacks. Improves effective memory bandwidth Achieve a similar 1.5 times improvement in bandwidth efficiency by transferring more model data per transaction. The above benefits are specifically associated with the initial implementation of the AI-MX product. ZeroPoint Technologies aims to further exceed the 1.5 times increases to capacity and performance in subsequent generations of the AI-MX product. Given the exponentially increasing memory demands of today's applications, partially driven by the explosive growth of generative AI, ZeroPoint addresses the critical need of today's hyperscale and enterprise data center operators to get the most performance and capacity possible from increasingly expensive and power-hungry memory. For more general use cases (those not related to foundational models) ZeroPoint's solutions are proven to increase general memory capacity by 2-4x while also delivering up to 50% more performance per watt. In combination, these two effects can reduce the total cost of ownership of hyperscale data center servers by up to 25%. ZeroPoint offers memory optimization solutions across the entire memory hierarchy - all the way from cache to storage. ZeroPoint's technology is agnostic to data load, processor type, architectures, memory technologies and processing node, and the company's IP has already been proven on a TSMC 5nm node. About ZeroPoint Technologies AB ZeroPoint Technologies is the leading provider of hardware-accelerated memory optimization solutions for a variety of use cases, ranging from enterprise and hyperscale datacenter implementations to consumer devices. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, ZeroPoint has developed an extensive portfolio of intellectual property. The company was founded by Professor Per Stenström and Dr. Angelos Arelakis, with the vision to deliver the most efficient memory compression available, across the memory hierarchy, in real-time, based on state-of-the-art research. For more information, visit For further information contact Klas Moreau, CEO at +46-725-268101 ZeroPoint Technologies ABFalkenbergsgatan 3412 85 GöteborgSwedenweb: phone: +46-725-268101 This information was brought to you by Cision The following files are available for download: Press release (PDF) View original content: Sign in to access your portfolio
