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Rising power demands from AI GPUs like Nvidia's Blackwell and future Rubin and Feynman processors are pushing data centers beyond air and cold-plate cooling, making immersion cooling appear inevitable within a few years despite high costs and complexity. But is the industry ready?

Elon Musk lays out his highly-ambitious plans to scale xAI's compute power to 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs in the next five years. He doubles down on the vision while open-sourcing Grok 2.5 and even claiming that eventually billions of AI GPUs' worth of power will be in the palm of xAI's hands.

The 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD is currently available at Amazon for $229-one of its best prices to date for the hard drive.

Industrial PC parts manufacturer DFI has launched a new ITX motherboard featuring Intel's upcoming Panther Lake-H. We don't know what SKU it is, but it has a 25W TDP. Being an industrial motherboard, it has no x16 PCIe slot but there are tons of additions like EXT-OOB, along with vPro and CNVi support.

Alienware brings a competition-ready IPS panel to the speedy FHD monitor category with the attractively priced AW2525HM. It's a 320 Hz screen with Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, more color gamut coverage than the competition.

The 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G70B gaming monitor is currently available for $399, its best price to date and one of the best offers you'll find on a monitor with these specs.

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, and the UK government's Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, have discussed a deal which would see the UK's entire population given premium access to ChatGPT, according to reports.

New benchmarks suggest that the 5500X3D offers respectable performance in productivity workloads.

Researchers at imec and Ghent University have stacked 120 ultra-thin layers of silicon and silicon-germanium, a key step toward 3D DRAM. Using advanced epitaxial techniques, they controlled atomic strain to create a nanoscale skyscraper" of memory, paving the way for denser, faster chips.

Microsoft's momentous Windows 95 operating system became available to the public on this day 30 years ago.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is back in Taiwan for weighty negotiations with contract chipmaker TSMC, but still had some fun.

In a Q&A session, AMD claims the latest round of AM5 burnout/CPU failures is the result of overtuned BIOS settings set by its board partners. AMD's response is likely targeted at ASRock, which has struggled to fix problems related to CPU failures on its motherboards this year.

This massive handheld gaming console will let you play your games in 3D without needing glasses - but you'll have to pay for the privilege.

Samsung 850 Pro SSDs may be old, but they're still quite helpful in storing your Steam games and other easily replaceable data.

Kioxia has prototyped a 5 TB flash module that delivers 64 GB/s over PCIe 6.0, utilizing a daisy-chain controller design and PAM4 signaling to scale bandwidth efficiently. While latency still lags behind DRAM, the breakthrough positions NAND as near-memory storage for AI and data-intensive workloads.

A city in central Japan is considering regulating smartphone use to improve the health of its citizens.

Despite soaring demand for server chips, AMD's EPYC 9005 and Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs are selling at U.S. retailers for up to 50% below their official list prices.

The Snapmaker U1 raised $7.4 million, surpassing the Bambu Lab X1C record.

Sama steps into the air-cooling game with the A60E, an effective low-noise dual-tower air cooler. We've tested it with Intel's i7-14700K and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

The Wolfbox MF100 is available at Amazon for one of its best prices to date over at Amazon-just $69 instead of its usual $89.

The new Commodore is already thriving with $2m in sales in the first week of the C64 Ultimate's debut.

Aoostar has launched the world's first MoDT motherboard with AMD's Ryzen 9 9955HX and 9955HX3D CPUs. Designed for desktops but powered by mobile chips, the mATX board offers PCIe Gen5, dual M.2 slots, and strong cooling-delivering near-desktop performance at a much lower cost, starting at $530.

Tech giants and hyperscalers are paying billions to build out large data centers for AI, creating supply chain bottlenecks and intense competition for technological dominance.

Noctua has opened up on the possibility of making an RTX 5090, claiming it wants to build an RTX 5090 Noctua Edition graphics card, but Nvidia does not have enough GB202 dies (currently) to make it a reality.

The Arch Linux project team are working to mitigate the impact, while keeping details of who, why and how close to its chest

Redditor Savings_Opportunity3 reported that the 16-pin power connector on his ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi OC graphics card had melted.

ASRock's B850 Livemixer, with its updated, comparatively conservative appearance, offers 14 USB ports and three PCIe slots for additional expansion, a solid audio solution, and a wallet-friendly price under $190.

AMD has confirmed it didn't mean to leak FSR 4 source code, but with forks created and files already downloaded, it might not be able to do much to claw them back.

Screenshots of FSR 4 files accidentally published by AMD on GitHub reveal that the GPU maker was or is working on a second version of FSR 4 that works with older GPUs.