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MSI justannouncedtwo new gaming monitors — a 34-inch curved ultrawide screen and a 27-inch flat display with a fast 240 Hz refresh rate. These two new 1440p displays are based upon desirable QD-OLED technology, with the larger MPG 341CQPX QD-OLED offering a faster refresh rate than MSI’s previous 34-inch QD-OLED screen. On the other hand, the smaller MAG 271QPX QD-OLED E2 is slower than theMSI MPG271QRX we’ve already reviewed, with the new display getting 240 Hz; down from the 360 Hz on the older model....

The U.S. government is set to introduce a new rule expanding U.S. restrictions on exporting semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese chipmakers. It will also expand the Entity List with 120 China-based entities to close loops that enable Chinese fabs to obtain advanced chipmaking tools featuring American technologies,Reutersreports. But companies from key allies like Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea will get exemptions. The forthcoming rule will affect roughly six facilities in China....

The Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 data center GPU was announced today during CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote atGTC 2025in San Jose, CA. Offering 50% more memory and FP4 compute than the existing B200 solution, it raises the stakes in the race to faster and more capable AI models yet again. Nvidia says it’s “built for the age of reasoning,” referencing more sophisticated AI LLMs like DeepSeek R1 that do more than just regurgitate previously digested information....

Nvidia reports that its new Hopper H200 AI GPU combined with its performance-enhancing TensorRT LLM has broken the record in the latest MLPerf performancebenchmarks. The pairing together has boosted the H200’s performance to a whopping 31,712 tokens a second in MLPerf’s Llama 2 70B benchmark, a 45% improvement over Nvidia’s previous generationH100 HopperGPU.Hopper H200is basically the same silicon as H100, but the memory was upgraded to 24GB 12-Hi stacks of HBM3e....

Steam’s hardware surveys have long stood as a reliable pillar in the tech community for judging GPU adoption. The company releases this data at the start of each month, but despite Nvidia’s RTX 50-series being out since February of 2025, it’s only now that they’ve finally begun to show up in the survey. The newly releasedJune 2025 numbersshed light on how many of the GPUs are actually being used. This means there’s finally enough RTX 50-series cards in the hands of PC gamers that they can be counted in their own right, rather than as part of the ‘other’ section....

Nvidia’s China strategy is shifting once again.According to Reuters, the company has placed a fresh order for 300,000 H20 AI GPUs with TSMC, spurred by unexpectedly strong demand from Chinese tech giants. This move comes just weeks after the Trump administrationreversed an April ban on the H20, a China-specific chip designed to comply with U.S. export controls but still powerful enough to dominate AI inference workloads. The decision marks a reversal of Nvidia’s earlier stance....

The Trump administration is considering expanding the chip sanctions the Biden administration put on China, according to people familiar with the matter. This expansion would cover Nvidia’s H20 chips, which the company specifically developed for China to comply with the U.S.’s export limitations. This talk of expansion will not take effect soon, however, according toBloomberg, especially as the new administration is still putting its own people in the various positions the needs to be filled....

Nvidia’s rollout of its first-gen Blackwell B200-series processors faced a roadblock due toyield-killing issues, and several unconfirmed reports ofoverheatingservers have also emerged. However, as reported bySemiAnalysis, it looks like Nvidia’s second-genBlackwell B300-series processorsare just around the corner. They will not only feature increased memory capacity but also offer 50% higher performance with just 200W of additional TDP. Nvidia’s B300-series processors feature a significantly tweaked design that will still be made on TSMC’s 4NP fabrication process (a 4nm-class node with enhanced performance tuned for Nvidia), but the report claims they will offer 50% more compute performance than the B200-series processors....

One of the challenges with building high-end AI data centers is connecting servers and making tens of thousands of GPUs work in concert and without problems, making network interconnections as important as GPUs. To buildxAI’s Colossus supercomputer,which now has 100,000 of Nvidia’s Hopper processors and will expand to 200,000H100andH200GPUs in the coming months, the companychoseNvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet. Nvidia’s Spectrum-X platform includes the Spectrum SN5600 Ethernet switch, which enables port speeds up to 800 Gb/s and is built on the Spectrum-4 switch ASIC....

If you’re after the verybest gaming desktop CPU, then the good news is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D from AMD is back in stock at most retailers for around the $479 MSRP list price. However, for $190 less than our top pick, you can still bag an AM5 9000-series processor with the same 8-cores and 16-threads, just a lot less cache. Head to Amazon, where in the Big Spring Sale,AMD’s Ryzen 7 9700X is only $289....

Attachments have become an integral part while sending emails.You may have attached a link to your email to redirect the recipient to another page many times on Outlook. Recently, many users have reported that these links did not work while attaching them to their emails on Outlook. Certain factors concerning your browser or system may cause Outlook hyperlinks not to work. If you’ve found yourself in a similar situation, allow this article to help you out of this issue....

The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) just releasedversion 0.7of the PCIe 7.0 specifications for the approval of its members. With the goal of releasing the final specifications in 2025. The PCI-SIG is the group that sets the standards for the interface that connects the motherboard to other components likethe best GPUs, so it must ensure that these interconnects can keep up with hardware advancements and not serve as bottlenecks to future developments....

If yourPS4 won’t stay on, it’s either a minor issue or your console may be seeing glimpses of the afterlife. In either case, the problem relies ondamaged internal componentsorcorrupted software. Sometimes, the PlayStation 4 shuts off by itself after a while. It may happen after 5 minutes, or it may happen after hours. The less time it takes to power off, the closer it is to thedreaded blue light. The PlayStation“Blue Light of Death”is a pulsing blue light from the console....