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Noctuais a brand known for itsair coolers, but it looks like the German cooling manufacturer is finally dipping its toe into alternative cooling solutions. Noctua showed off a prototype of an AIO-esque liquid cooler atComputex, built in collaboration with Calyos, that uses dual-phase thermosiphon cooling to dissipate heat from a CPU. The prototype has three primary components: a heat spreader, tubes, and a radiator — in this case it is also known as a condenser — all filled with evaporative coolant....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during his keynote speech atComputex 2025that his company would work with Foxconn to build an AI supercomputer in Taiwan. According toNvidia, it will work with Foxconn subsidiary Big Innovation Company as an Nvidia Cloud Partner, delivering the infrastructure required for the 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs the company will deploy on the project. This isn’t as big asMusk’s Memphis Supercluster, which currently has 200,000 GPUs, but it’s still a substantial investment worth several hundred million US dollars....

Actual systems based on Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell platform will be launched starting July 22, according to an Asus invitation, spotted byVideoCardz, promoting the event. The company plans to re-introduce its Ascend GX10 mini-PC on the day.However, the presentation itself barely indicates availability timeframe, or actual price, though both were touched upon by Nvidia itself previously. “Asus Ascent GX10 Product Launch: Discover the power of the compact Asus Ascent GX10,” a statement in the flyer published byVideoCardzreads....

Nvidia’s PhysX and Flow SDKs are nowcompletely open-sourceunder the permissive BSD-3 license. If you’ve been a part of the developer community, these libraries have been open-source since late 2018, except for the key GPU simulation kernels. Releasing the source code for these kernels paves the way for game developers to integrate custom and highly optimized variations of PhysX and Flow, while the modding community might see this as an opportunity to run legacy PhysX code on unsupported RTX 50 GPUs through compatibility layers....

OpenAI is set to introduce Orion, its next-generation AI model, this December, reportsThe Verge, citing its sources with knowledge of the matter. However, initial access will be limited to key partner companies instead of a broad release through ChatGPT.com to the general public. The new model is expected to be a full-blown version rather than an enhanced or specialized version of an existing one. Orion is viewed internally as a successor to GPT-4, though it is unclear whether its official name will be GPT-5 when released....

Oracle has secured the permits to build three small modular reactors (SMRs) to power its AI data center. During its quarterly earnings call, the company said (viaThe Register) that it plans to use those tiny nuclear plants for a planned AI data center with at least one-gigawatt capacity. SMRs are miniaturized reactors similarly sized to those used on naval vessels like submarines and aircraft carriers. However, since they do not have to be built inside the cramped space of a warship, SMRs do not have to be customized to the needs of a particular vessel....

Laser printers can generally print around 30 to 40 pages per minute while Inkjet printers can print around 15 to 20 pages per minute. So, the printing speed depends on the type of printer used and the color format of the document (grayscale or color). The printer may start printing slower when there are a lot of print jobs pending in the print queue. When the print queue has a lot of print job spooling, the printer memory becomes full and can not handle print requests efficiently....

The Premier League team’s claimed 1.1 billion fans will now be presented with the Snapdragon logo on all three variants (home, away, and third) of the Manchester United gameday kit. This massive claimed number is largely thanks to the popularity of Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most famous athletes of all time, who played with Man United from 2003-2022.A single football match at Old Trafford, Manchester United’s home pitch, gets more exposure than a single Super Bowl ad, and making Snapdragon the front-and-center brand image associated with the team is a powerful move by Qualcomm....

The first Russian photolithography tool, capable of producing chips with a 350 nm process technology or thicker, has been built inRussiaand is undergoing testing in Zelenograd. This mature technology is currently used for some automotive and power chips, though it could also be used for military equipment. We estimate that the new piece of equipment is about 30 years behind the industry. “We assembled and made the first domestic lithographic scanner,” Vasily Shpak, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia, toldTASS....

TheBlack Fridayseason has arrived and so have the deals, including on this great 34-inch curved gaming monitor from LG. With a VA panel, HDR 10 and 160 Hz refresh, you get a lot of monitor for your money. This 34-inch curved gaming monitor uses a VA panel and has 160 Hz refresh rate, making it ideal for work, and gaming on a budget. The ultra-wide QHD VA panel has a resolution of 3440 x 1440 and an aspect ratio of 21:9, and the screen curves to place you in the middle of the action, (or the middle of a spreadsheet)....

The maelstrom that is Amazon Prime Day has passed, one of the better sales events I’ve seen over the last five years, with a lot of actually good deals. Some of the other retailer sales are still winding up, so there are still bargains to be had if you missed out on the main event.. One of the most popular items of interest for shoppers in the sales has been microSD Express cards; these are in demand because of the Nintendo Switch 2 games console....

Ever since Qualcomm engineers finalized the design of the Snapdragon X Elite processor for Windows-based client PCs, it began to work on something new in a bid to keep pace with the company’s rivals at AMD, Apple, and Intel. Apparently, Qualcomm has already received early silicon of its next-generation CPU for PCs and is currently testing it, reportsWinFuture. The new processor generation, which will likely be called Qualcomm Snapdragon X2, is currently known under the codename Project Glymur, and also with the model number SC8480XP....

SSDs or Solid State Drives are now considered by many manufacturers and customers as the superior alternative whencompared to hard disks. They do not have any moving parts and are less prone to damage or failure. However, SSD’s being an electronic device, are susceptible to faults and come with a list of issues of their own. If you’ve encountered an error where the SSD is not showing in the Disk Management, the most common reasons may include damaged parts, incompatibility issues and device driver problems....