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Ohden will soon release its P30 SSD HDD puncher with electric-based hydraulics, providing up to 12 tons of force to impale through any physical media.

Intel has confirmed the existence of a third Battlemage die, codenamed BMG-G31. The new die is suspected to be Intel's least-powerful die in the lineup, aimed at entry-level GPU solutions.

Alibaba Cloud developed a High Performance Network (HPN) so the 15,000 GPUs inside each data center of the company could communicate using Ethernet.

Retail giant Best Buy moved the availability of several Asus laptops with Ryzen AI 300 chips from July 14 to 28, confirming the rumors that AMD is pushing back the release date of some of its latest processors.

In recent quarters, shipments of inference and training servers and sales of other types of servers have grown.

The B760M Pro RS sports a budget price point but surprises with more storage options than other similarly priced options. There are not many USB ports, nor are they fast. It's a competent gamer, but limited in long-running, heavy CPU tasks.

Snapdragon X Elite advertised 'flawless' Windows gaming on Arm, but the truth lands far from that lofty goal. Some games run quite well, but many have problems and older games ofter refuse to run at all.

Samsung reportedly looking forward to joining UALink alliance to better address needs of its foundry customers.

MSI launches a new super high-end laptop on Chinese e-commerce site JD.com sporting the second-ever sighting of the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, making it the second-ever laptop with 3D V-Cache. The new model will be in the $3,000 range, with specs to match.

Two reputable hardware leakers claim that AMD has allegedly pushed the Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) launch to July 28, a day behind the Ryzen 9000 debut.

CoreWeave has already expanded a relatively new contract for data center capacity to meet accelerating demand for its AI cloud services.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D drops to its lowest price at Amazon of just $192.

Intel has listed five new Battlemage PCI IDs that will be integrated into the next update cycle for the Linux 6.11 kernel. The lack of many IDs hints that Intel's next-gen GPU launch could have far fewer SKUs than its outgoing Arc A-series lineup.

TP-Link is taking on the likes of the Asus RT-BE96U and ROG Rapture GT-BE98

Steam launches Game Recording functionality in beta.

Skatterbencher and three industry-leading partners have completed a feasibility study to see if it's possible to build a liquid nitrogen (LN2) container using generative AI and additive manufacturing techniques, also known as 3D printing.

SK hynix has announced the development of its first PCIe Gen 5 M.2 SSD, dubbed the PCB01. The new drive sports up to 14GB/s of bandwidth and is marketed heavily towards AI-based applications.

All the top players in 3D printing manufacturing turned out to showcase their newest wares at this year's Rapid + TCT event held in Los Angeles.

CXMT to invest $2.4 billion to build advanced packaging fab to build HBM memory for AI.

Sam Altman-backed Rain AI hires ex-Apple senior director of SoC engineering to lead hardware engineering.

Lian Li continues to innovate with a unique approach to dealing with AIO cable management with its Hydroshift LCD 360S.

AMD has released its Adrenalin Edition 24.6.1 drivers, including expanded support for FSR 3.1, the production launch of Radeon Anti-Lag 2 in Counter-Strike 2, and a few other features.

Hori releases officially-licensed Steam Controller successor, which mixes some features of the Deck controller with a modern gamepad shell.

Asus has debuted yet another iteration of the RX 6600 Dual, dubbed the Dual V3. The new RDNA2 card boasts a refreshed shroud design that is smaller than its predecessors, reducing the card's size to 2.1 slots in thickness.

With collaboration between three research institutes, researchers found a way to utilize current fiber optic and internet infrastructure to achieve up to 402 Tb/s data rate by simply switching to new bandwidth leveraging widely used amplifiers.

Lenovo puts Loongson's 3C5000 and 3A6000 CPUs into its datacenters.

AI training and optimization leader Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard, with a host of new and edited trials to put LLMs through their paces. Variants of Alibaba's Qwen LLM hold the 1st, 3rd, and 10th spots.

Open Sora running on an RTX 3090 can only generate a four second 240p video before it hits it memory limits. It also takes a minute to create the video, with a 24fps frame rate. You'll need a lot more VRAM for longer, higher resolution videos.

Microsoft is finally bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to less expensive devices, via Amazon's 4K Fire Sticks.

North Carolina State University researchers have developed an unorthodox computing design that uses the Japanese art of Kirigami.

China Mobile announced what it calls a 'super' SIM card, so called thanks to the single RISC-V CPU core onboard running at a blazing 120 MHz. Like many IoT solutions, the use-case of a smarter SIM card is not immediately apparent.

Two become one when you grab this deal on an Alienware Aurora R16 desktop gaming PC and add an Alienware AW3423DWF OLED monitor on top. Save a combined $700 off of both products.

Lucas Fernando is using AI and a Linux PC to read Naruto hand seals, project

Huawei enters client SSD market with PCIe Gen4 Kunling eKitStore Xtreme 200 drives.

Microsoft is forced to stall the forced rollout of the buggy Windows 11 2023 Update.

PC DRAM and VRAM will grow between 3% to 8% due to increased production pressure on HBM and data server memory.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V performs better than the previous-generation Intel Core Ultra 5 125H, despite having a lower TDP.

Verity Systems gives the MediaGone 500 SSD & Flash Shredder a heavy discount.

Loongson has announced that samples of its 3C6000, 3D6000, and 3E6000 server chips have been successfully taped out and tested, and that production is on track for Q4 2024 releases.

Micron reiterates its plans to use EUV for high-volume DRAM production next year as it starts pilot production on a 1-gamma node.

The US PC market seems healthy four years following the start of the pandemic and the many chip shortages during and since.

Frore launches waterproof AirJet Mini Sport active cooling system for IP68 devices like smartphones.

Intel unveils optical compute interconnect chiplet, industry's first fully integrated optical I/O solution that enables up to 4 Tbps connectivity.

EDA tools from Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys now support Intel's EMIB interconnection technology.

Korean telecom company KT Corporation sent malware to its subscribers who use Webhard's Grid Service peer-to-peer sharing program to hide their files and stop them from using the service.

Maker and developer Kian Ryan has created a set of custom arcade cabinets using one of our favorite SBCs, the Raspberry Pi 4.

A pair of AMD scientists will present their findings on neural texture block compression next week at EGSR in London. The research is very similar to Nvidia's ongoing work with neural network-based texture compression first announced last year.

The Pimoroni PicoVision incorporates two RP2040 microcontrollers, offering plenty of computing power to run the OG Windows 1.01 version.