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Nvidia’sAmpere A100was previously one of the top AI accelerators, before being dethroned by the newerHopper H100— not to mention theH200andupcoming Blackwell GB200. It looks like the chipmaker may have experimented with an enhanced version that never hit the market, or perhaps companies have clandestinely modified the A100 to make it even faster in the wake ofU.S. sanctions against China. X userJiacheng Liurecently discovered various A100 prototypes in the Chinese second-hand market that flaunt substantially higher specifications than Nvidia’s ‘regular’ A100....

When the shutdown function is called, Windows starts closing all the applications and unloading open handles from memory. Then, it activates the ACPI drivers to cut off power from the battery. But various causes can hinder this process from running smoothly. Faultyperipheral devicesattached to the laptop can freeze Windows and make it unresponsive to the shutdown function. But other than that, some specific causes of the problem have been summarized below:...

After shipment volumes of all types of servers peaked in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and working from home, all categories dropped to normal in the following years. All categories, except AI servers, whose shipments volumes headed to the sky in 2020 and showed no signs of slowing down, at least for now, based on data fromOmdia. Shipments of AI servers are projected to rise sharply from about 500,000 in 2019 to approximately 4....

TSMC’s demand for CoWoS chipmaking materials has become so great that it is causing material shortages in the memory market. Mitsubishi Gas Chemicalhas announced to clientsthat shipments of raw materials for the production of BT substrate will be heavily delayed due to low supply. As the largest supplier of BT substrate raw materials in the world, MGC’s delays will trigger potential long-term shortages in the substrate supply chain, exacerbating existing issues and cost hikes in the memory production segment, particularly NAND flash controllers....

Update 9/23 07:34 PT Elecrow has responded to our request for comment with this statement “On the morning of September 23, our company received an email from Jeff messaged that our ESP series tutorial videos may infringed upon his voice cloning rights, along with the video content. First of all, We recognize that this is a very basic and serious issue, and have promptly launched an internal investigation. Through the investigation, we found out that the video was made by one of our employees....

“Over here, Stranger!” Resident Evil is a long-spawning survival horror video game. Capcom is the sole creator, and it represents the best-selling franchise they have. Resident Evil is amongst the top 20 highest-grossing video-game franchises in the world. Since its 1996 debut, it has expanded into other media, including movies, series, animated films, novels, comics, audiobooks, etc. There’re9 Resident Evil games in the core series. On top of that, there’rethree significant remakes....

Despite not being officially announced by Sandisk, theWDBlack SN8100 is available for pre-order atAmazon (Germany),at the equivalent of $225 for the 1TB variant, viamomomo_us. With listed reads of 14.9 GB/s, this should be the fastest consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD, at least if we’re talking about on-paper specifications. Beyond what the Amazon listing offers, technical details, including the specific controller and NAND flash type, remain unknown. Western Digital’s flash-memory business has been handed over to the now-independent Sandisk, following itsspin-offfrom the company....

We’ve heard rumors about AMD’sRadeonRX 7600 XT for several months now, and it’s finally official. Leveraging the same Navi 33 GPU as the vanillaRadeon RX 7600, the key difference is in the VRAM department. The 7600 already used the full Navi 33 complement of 32 Compute Units (CUs), and the 128-bit memory interface isn’t going to change, which leaves only two routes to improving performance and features: more memory and higher clocks....

There have been several reports ofAMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs refusing to boot on ASRock motherboards. The two companies have beenaware of themsince February 2025, with ASRock immediatelyreleasing a beta BIOS updateto address the problem. After a few weeks of investigation, the cause of the issue has finally been identified as a memory compatibility problem, but it has already been resolved with the latest BIOS release. “We are aware of a limited number of user reports involving ASRock AM5 motherboards failing to complete POST....

At GDC 2024, AMD announced it’s addingdraw calls and mesh nodes as part of Work Graphs— moving these features from the CPU to the GPU, with the aim of improving gaming performance. AMD showed off benchmark numbers of Work Graphs with mesh shaders running on anRX 7900 XTX, revealing a 64% performance improvement compared to normal Work Graphs without mesh shaders applied. Before we dive into these features, what exactly are Work Graphs?...

More Geekbenchbenchmarksfor AMD’s all-newRadeon 890MRDNA 3.5 integrated graphics flagship have surfaced. As discovered byBenchleaksover on X (Twitter), new Geekbench Vulkan and OpenCL scores have placed the latest AMD iGPU on the same performance scale as Nvidia’sGTX 1070from eight years ago. Performance results come from two separate benchmarks, one using OpenGL and one utilizingVulkan. Both were using the same machine: an Asus ProArt P16 laptop featuring an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with Radoen 890M integrated graphics....

Eligible MacBook owners have started to receive payments relating to Apple’s butterfly keyboard mechanism class action lawsuit in the U.S.9to5Maceditor Michael Burkhardt said he received two $395 checks in the mail on Saturday. Burkhardt and others who have been affected by butterfly keyboard issues have endured very long waits for their payouts, as the suit was filed back in 2018. Apple introduced its underlying butterfly keyboard mechanism starting 2015, touting it as an improvement on traditional scissor switches on laptops....

ASRock confirmed that it is responsible Ryzen 9000 failures plaguing ASRock motherboard owners. In a discussion betweenGamers Nexusand ASRock’s VP of motherboards, Chris Lee, the company confirmed its latest BIOS revision, 3.25, alters certain PBO settings to stop Ryzen 9000 chips from failing. A few days ago, YouTuber Tech Yes Cityrevealed thatASRock had allegedly solved its Ryzen 9000 problem. The issue surrounded three power and voltage-related functions, Electric Design Current (EDC) and Thermal Design Current (TDC) in Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO), and shadow voltages which were set too high in older ASRock firmware....