Elon Musk plans to scale the xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — currently at over 100,000 H100 GPUs and counting

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is set to expand its Colossus supercomputer to over one million GPUs, reports theFinancial Times. Thus, the expanded Colossus machine will be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. However, it will require significant investments, supply, and infrastructure availability. Colossus, which is used to train the large language model behind Grok, already operates over 100,000 H100 processors from Nvidia and isset to double the number of GPUsshortly to become the largest supercomputer in a single building....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 464 words · Amy Rodriguez

Empyrean Technology gives control to CEC after U.S. blacklisting — China’s top developer of chip design systems hands reins to state-owned firm

China’s largest maker of chip design tools, Empyrean Technology, has handed over full control of its company to the state-owned China Electronics Corporation, according to theSouth China Morning Post. This surrender of control comes thanks toheavy American sanctionsleveled against the Chinese tech industry earlier this month, which placed Empyrean on the US’s “Entity List”. Empyrean’s latest corporate filings reveal that its board of directors gave China Electronics Corporation (CEC) full control of the company on Monday....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 509 words · Anna Parsons

Fix: The Computer Did Not Resync Because No Time Data Was Available

While running thew32tm /resynccommand to sync the time of a Windows computer or server to a time source, you may get the error message “The computer did not resync because no time data was available.” This error indicates that your computer could not synchronize to the time server because it couldn’t find any time data on the server. Usually, it happens because of improper group policy or registry configurations. You can simply set the proper settings in such cases....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 586 words · Stephen Mckay

Fix:”ERR_HTTP2_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY” Chrome Error

Although Chrome is a decent browser, it’s also infamous for running into frequent crashes and errors. One such error is the“err_http2_inadequate_transport_security chrome.” Along with this, you’ll also see a message like “This site can’t reach this page.” What this error indicates is that there are compatibility issues with Chrome’s security protocols. One of the major causes of this error is that there’s no proper data flow with the revised network protocol, i....

May 3, 2025 · 4 min · 699 words · Tina Serrano

Gigabyte details BIOS roll-out plan to neutralize Sinkclose vulnerability — eligible AMD CPUs should be patched by end of the month

Gigabyte published anadvisorystating it will release the new BIOS with the latest AGESA containing the ‘Sinkclose’ vulnerability patch for many of its AMD motherboards in succession by the end of August. The flaw exclusively affected the entire line of AMD processors released since 2006, requiring a wide range of CPUs to be updated with a new firmware containing the required AGESA microcode. Considering the potential of this flaw and the release of the much-needed AGESA patches, it’s a norm for other motherboard makers to release the patched BIOS quickly once the AGESA patch is out....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 452 words · Michelle Jones

Gigabyte hints AMD's next-gen gaming APUs will drop into current-gen motherboards — Ryzen 9000G support listed for AM5 platforms

One of Gigabyte’s B650 (AM5) motherboardsnow listssupport for AMD’s unreleased and likely soon-to-launch Ryzen 9000G series APUs, as reported byVideoCardz. This suggests that AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9000G APUs will probably be supported on existing 600 and 800 series motherboards, of course, with a necessary BIOS update. That being said, names, specifications, and pricing still remain unconfirmed. Wefirst heardof AMD’s Ryzen 9000G processors in late March, withleakers suggestingthey’d employ Gorgon Point silicon....

May 3, 2025 · 2 min · 425 words · Jason Robinson

Gigabyte incorporates 64MB BIOS chip on X870 motherboard to integrate the WiFi driver

Gigabyte just released the X870 Aorus Stealth ICE motherboard, which features a bigger BIOS than most other competing hardware. According toUniko’s Hardware, this is the first AM5 motherboard to feature a 64MB chip, four times larger than the 16MB BIOS chip that most AM4 motherboards used when it was new. However, the larger capacity, which Gigabyte calls Driver BIOS, seems to be mainly used to store the Wi-Fi driver, as the motherboard’s spec sheet says that the BIOS is still 256 Mbit flash, which translates to 32MB....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Kim Parrish

Gigabyte M28U 28-inch 4K gaming monitor's $270 discount to an all-time low $329 is still good, but the sale ends in a few hours

4K gaming monitors often cost an arm and a leg if you want to get one, but Newegg is giving you a rather short chance to save big today. TheGigabyte M28U 28-inch 4K gaming monitoris currently on sale for just $330, offering 45% off the MSRP of $600 and saving you a substantial $270. Note that this deal is only on for less than 14 hours, meaning you have to get it right now if you want a new 4K monitor for cheap while getting ahead of thePrime Day 2025rush....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 582 words · Kristen Norris

GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4

SK hynix was rather quick to retract a comment made by its booth representative atComputexwho said that it plans to start volume production of GDDR7 memory in the first quarter of 2025. Roughly a quarter behind its rival Micron. The company told Tom’s Hardware via email that its GDDR7 memory is on track for mass production in the fourth quarter of this year, when the relevant market opens up. This is in line with its rivals....

May 3, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Connor Bailey

Hands-on with Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901: Decibel dampener

Be quiet! is a name that’s likely well known by most readers of Tom’s Hardware, and as the name implies, the company is known for, among other things, high-end cooling solutions with low noise levels. I’ve recently tested their latest air cooler, theDark Rock Pro Elite, and found it to be one of the best air coolers currently on the market. Today’s review will cover the Dark Base Pro 901, a full-sized PC case from Be Quiet (as it will be referred to for the rest of this review) that’s packed with a plethora of features ranging from wireless charging to 5....

May 3, 2025 · 8 min · 1528 words · Arthur Turner

How to Add Weather to Taskbar Windows 11

If you’re curious about what the weather’s going to be like, Windows 11 allows easy access to weather information by adding it to your taskbar. you may either use the Weather application or the Weather widget to know about the weather without getting up from your computer. To add the weather widget to your taskbar, you can either enable Widgets from settings or you can pin the Weather application to the taskbar....

May 3, 2025 · 3 min · 496 words · Lindsey Parker

How to Check RAM Speed? All Possible Ways

You’ve justupgraded your RAMand you might be wondering if it is running at its advertised speed. To quickly inspect the memory frequency, use theBIOS/UEFI utilityor evenWindows Task Manager. you may also usehardware monitoring utilitiesandPowershell/CMD commandsto do so. However, these methods only display thecurrent RAM speed. Your memory stick is capable of running at much more. To find this out, you may directly examine theRAM module or the sticker. From BIOS Utility Your motherboard’s firmware interface is ideal for monitoring every hardware component....

May 3, 2025 · 4 min · 797 words · William Johnson

How to Connect Power Supply to Motherboard

If you are not a regular PC builder, it might be daunting to see the profusion of tangled wires inside the CPU casing. However, it is much simpler than it appears to assemble and connect the power cables to the motherboard. You just have tofind the correct ports and that’s all. It is obvious that the hardware requires power in order to function. But the power is not directly supplied to them....

May 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1268 words · Jason Davis