One of the most important features of the Switch is that it’s portable. When you’re away from a wall outlet or your docking station, you can still play as long as you have enough charge on your battery. When it isn’t charging, though, you lose access to one of the essential functions it can perform. Fix it as soon as you notice the problem so you can get back to playing your favorite games....

Nvidia and Broadcom are both testing chips using Intel’s new 18A manufacturing process, reports sources toReuters,indicating that these well-known projects continue. Intel’s 18A process is the company’s first fabrication technology to rely on gate-all-around RibbonFET transistors and a backside power delivery network named PowerVia. The Intel 18A process is broadlycomparable to TSMC’s N2 node. However, 18A is thought to be faster, while N2 is a denser chip. Reuters sources suggest that both Nvidia and Broadcom’s tests are not being conducted on complete chip designs, but the companies want to understand how 18A works in both behavior and performance....

Analysts from Morgan Stanley believe that despitelow yieldscaused bya significant yet easy-to-fix design issue, Nvidia will produce around 450,000 AI GPUs based on theBlackwellarchitecture. If the information is accurate and the company manages to sell these units this calendar year, this could translate into a revenue opportunity of over $10 billion. “Blackwell chips are expected to see 450,000 units produced in the fourth quarter of 2024, translating into a potential revenue opportunity exceeding $10 billion for Nvidia,” analysts from investment bank Morgan Stanley wrote in a note to clients, reportsThe_AI_Investor, a blogger that tends to have access to this kind of notes....

Sales of desktop discretegraphics cardsdeclined quarter-over-quarter, but improved year-over-year in Q1 2024, a recent report fromJon Peddie Research(JPR) shows. However, the performance of the two leading suppliers of standalone graphics processors was completely different: despite the market decline, Nvidia increased its sales and gained share (to 88%), whereas AMD’s shipments decreased and the share fell sharply (to 12%). Both vendors are well-represented in the ranks ofthe best graphics cards available today....

Nvidia announcedSmooth Motionback in January, as part of its initial RTX 50-series launch. Now the feature seems to have begun to trickle down to RTX 40-series graphics card owners, via a little Nvidia Profile Inspector tweak discovered by Macer,over at the Guru3D forums. Much likeAMD’s Fluid Motion Frames, Nvidia’s Smooth Motion claims to double your frame rate by putting one AI-generated frame in between two real ones. This is a driver-level solution so it works in any game, regardless of it being supported or not in any particular software....

Kids in Japan are set for a real treat later this month as aPC-buildingamusement center attractionopens at Kidzania Tokyo. From June 26, lucky children will be able to experience the daily work of a ‘PC Factory Worker,’ and assemble a computer. Kidzania says that children will “learn about the computer’s structure and functions, enjoy the process of manufacturing, and deepen your understanding of computers.” The Kidzania PC Factory has been put together with the help of Mouse Computer....

PNY’s has todayannouncedits latest PCIe 5.0 SSD starts at just $99 for the 1TB, far cheaper than most other 1TB PCIe 5.0 drives. Although PCIe 5.0 storage has been around for a couple of years now, it’s never been especially affordable. Most 1TB drives tend to start around $150, and 2TB models easily surpass $200, sometimes getting close to $300. There’s been plenty of progress on performance; PCIe 5.0 drives started out at 10GB/s in early 2023 and now the fastest models can hit over 14GB/s....

TheRaspberry Pi 5is still the single board computer against which all others are measured, but do you need to spend $60 for the 4GB and a whopping $80 for the 8GB model? Well Raspberry Pi has just released the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB, and for $50 the only difference is the RAM. We’ve previously reviewed the Raspberry Pi 5, and as the only key difference here is the RAM, we won’t be allocating a score....

AI is currently one of the hottest topics for those looking to invest in “the next big thing”. But according to research by theRAND Corporation, over 80% of these AI projects will fail — which is twice the failure rate for non-AI technology-related startups. The global policy think tank talked to 65 data scientists and engineers who have been working in the artificial intelligence sector over the past years, and they’ve determined several causes that lead to this massive failure rate....

RISC-V computer firmDeepComputingannounced that it offers early access to its new motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. The DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard features the JH7110 CPU made by chip designer StarFive. The processor sports four SiFive U74 cores that clock up to 1.5 GHz and an integrated GPU from Imagination. 8GB of memory and a 64GB SD card are also on the board, and through different tiers, DeepComputing optionally offers USB type A and HDMI ports and a WiFi 6 card....

Slept in? There’s no point in visiting the nearest Micro Center as allRTX 5090andRTX 5080, two of thebest graphics cards, are sold out within hours of launch. If you need to score a GPU on day one, be ready topay through the nosesince scalpers are charging 2x-3x more than MSRP.Supply-chainrumors andinventory woeswere clear indicators of a chaotic launch day, but all things considered, the limited supply, or lack thereof, suggests this is no more than a paper launch....

Samsung is set to tape out its firstHBM4 memory deviceslater this year with sampling set to begin in early 2025, reportsnN Elecciting industry sources. The company is projected to use its latest-generation 10nm-class DRAM fabrication process to make HBM4 DRAM devices as well as its 4nm-class logic technology to produce HBM4 base dies, the report says. After Samsung tapes out its first HBM4 memory devices and base dies, its memory and logic fabs will have to produce and assemble them, which will take a couple of months or more....

Dellis offering an incredible deal on one of its Dell XPS 14 laptops. This notebook has an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB LPDDR5X RAM, 1TB SSD, and a 14.5-inch touchscreen OLED monitor with a 3200 x 2000 resolution. Ordinarily, this notebook would cost $2,099.99, but for the moment, Dell is shaving off $450, bringing the cost down to$1,649.99, and with a free two-day delivery. We reviewed theDell XPS 14 (9440)with the same configuration except with RTX 4050 a few months ago, with the $2,399 price tag....