Thermal Grizzly upgraded its WireView GPU hardware power consumption monitoring device that connects directly to your GPU’s 12VHPWR connector. WireView GPU Pro retails for $76.19 (with VAT included) and is available on the company’s website. TheWireView GPU Progets additional sensors for added functionality. The device allows you to track your graphic card’s internal temperatures at the power connector, check to see if the power connector is inserted correctly (or if you’re even using the correct cable), and send an audible alarm if something is wrong....

TSMC may be hit with a fine exceeding $1 billion by the U.S. Commerce Department for unknowingly supplying Huawei a compute chiplet for the latter’s Ascend 910-series AI processor,Reutersreports. Such a high fine would be rare and perhaps a record, though it also appears to reveal the volume of chips that Huawei got from TSMC by deception.The potential $1+ billion fine is based on export rules that allow for penalties up to double the value of any unauthorized transaction....

TSMC on Thursday officially confirmed that its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, had begun high volume production of chips aftermonths of rumorsand a confirmation from the U.S. Commerce Secretaryearlier in January. The company emphasized that it is producing chips on one of its N4 process technology (4nm-class) and yields in Arizona are comparable to those in Taiwan. However, chips fabbed in the U.S. are more expensive than the same products made in Taiwan....

Ever since the U.S. government restricted sales of advanced AI and HPC processors to China, Chinese entities have used various loopholes to acquire Nvidia’s GPUs.Smuggling GPUs from nearby countries to Chinawas one of the easiest ways to get the desired processors, but it looks like it is not going to be that easy anymore:Singapore is cracking downon at least some smugglers, and now Malaysia is tightening oversight of its high-tech exports to China, reports theFinancial Times....

Advanced power chips and radio frequency amplifiers rely on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials like gallium nitride (GaN). China controls the lion’s share of gallium supply and its recent export restriction on gallium potentially mean additional risks for American nationalsecurity. To respond to this challenge, the U.S. Department of Defense agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Agency) hastasked Raytheonto develop synthetic diamond and aluminum nitride semiconductors. Second response to China’s Gallium export controls: Diamond & AlN....

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry andSecurity(BIS) has proposed a new set of export controls on several emerging technologies, limiting the ability of China and other “adversarial nations” access to advanced computing capabilities. Thenew export restrictionsconcern fab tools that can be used to make chips with gate-all-around transistors (GAA FETs), make chips using advanced deposition equipment, equipment necessary to build quantum computers, and tools required to produce sophisticated metal allows....

Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is happening today, and Jensen Huang is set to give the keynote address this morning. The multi-day event focuses on artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and other technologies that rely on GPUs' specialized computational power. The keynote address will happen live at the SAP Center in San Jose, California at 10 am Pacific Time, but it will also be live-streamed to a global audience via YouTube....

Task manager is a powerful tool that has followed through almost every version of Windows OS. Its versatility has made it familiar and useful to every Windows user. Iregularly use Task managerto kill unresponsive programs and monitor the CPU and GPU load of software. So, when the Task manager stops working and shows an empty display, it can limit many options in monitoring and managing programs on Windows computers. Task manager showing empty is a relatively common problem and isn’t that hard to fix....

Zotac’s, notfirst, notsecond, but third count of accidentally listing GPUs prematurely has shed light on what Nvidia has been preparing behind the scenes for its RTX 50 lineup of GPUs. Zotac had accidentally put up entries for the RTX 5090/D, RTX 5080, and the RTX 5070 family across its website, which were promptly taken down (H/T toVideocardzfor spotting the listings). While most of the aforementioned GPUs have already been leaked, Zotac’s recently updated filtering options are the first official source to confirm that the RTX 5090 will ship with 32GB of GDDR7 memory....

Howard County, Maryland, investigators haverecovered approximately 15,000 stolen construction toolsthanks to an AirTag device tracker. Officials announced the recovery in a May 23 news conference. The tools are believed to have been stolen from retail stores, businesses, vehicles, residential properties, and construction sites. Howard County Police Chief Gregory Der announced the preliminary outcome of the investigation. Der described it as “one of the largest theft cases not only in Howard County but in this region....

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Editionis finally landing on the Mac. The game will run on every Apple Silicon Mac using M1 through M4 and running macOS Sequoia 15.5.Developer CD Projekt RED is taking advantage of a ton of Apple technologies, including MetalFX upscaling, SpatialAudiowith head tracking when using AirPods, dynamic HDR optimized for Apple XDR displays, and support for the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. CD Projekt RED and Apple are also touting a version of AMD FSR upscaling and frame generation “optimized for Apple Silicon....

The Russian-founded tech giant Yandex has left Russia after finalizing one of the country’s most significant foreign corporate exits since the Russo-Ukraine war started.Reutersreports that Russian investors acquired the last of Yandex’s Russian assets, and the company has rebranded itself as the Dutch-based Nebius Group. The company is now working to triple its data center deployments of Nvidia chips. The deal took around two years to complete and culminated in Russian investors paying $5....

GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, accelerates the rendering process of the 3D images on the computer screen. The CPU shares the graphical workload of the system with the GPU and improves the picture and video quality. The capacity and ability of the GPU are getting better in every new build nowadays. But it is not always feasible to get a new one. The reason might be the increasing price factor with every new update....