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Printing anything on a 3D printer is an exercise in patience. Though speeds have increased a great deal over the past two years, even thebest 3D printerstake hours to finish a medium-sized project. Even small prints such as Benchy, a boat model that enthusiasts use for testing, require 13 to 30 minutes on thefastest 3D printerswe’ve tested. Amazingly, Maker Monika McWuff was able to output a Benchy in justtwo minutes and 9 seconds, thanks to her custom-modified Ender 3 Pro printer and its 120mm/s³ flow rate....

Last month, Phison started talking about its upcomingE26 Max14um controllerand some mainstream parts. We saw quite a few drives powered by Max14um atCES, and we also stopped by the Phison booth to go hands-on with some of the drives and discuss some of the finer details. These new drives will power some of thebest SSDsin the coming year, though some are still under embargo for now.Phison showed off four new and upcoming controllers at its CES 2024 suite: The E26 Max14um, the E31T mainstream PCIe 5....

Earlier this month, a brand-new build of the long-deprecated Windows NT for PowerPC surfaced. It’s now optimized for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii families of Nintendo consoles, of all platforms, thanks to their reliance on PowerPC architecture supported by the original Windows NT PowerPC releases. This build, called Entii for WorkCubes and onGitHub, also technically has Wii U support, but not in a sense that utilizes its two extra PowerPC cores, higher RAM pool, or more powerful AMD GPU— only through the virtualized Wii function....

GeForce Experience is notably missing in Nvidia’s latest driver update—Nvidia Graphics Driver Version 566.36—while the Nvidia app takes its place when you look at the driver components. The AI and graphics card company wanted tounify all GPU-related controlsto the new Nvidia app, replacing GeForce Experience and the Nvidia Control Panel. It has worked on the app since early 2024 until it finallyleft beta last November 12. With this driver update, the company has officially ceased support for the legacy GeForce Experience app, and it will also eventually deprecate the ancient Nvidia Control Panel after it transfers all functionality to the new app....

Nvidia recently showcased the capabilities of its RTX consumer GPUs at a press event, according toBenchlife.Info. The company pointed out how its GPUs are better than regularNPU-equippedPCs at handling AI tasks. It also presented severalbenchmarks, which showed its GPUs outperforming competing notebooks with AI-hardware acceleration including the MacBook Pro featuring Apple’s top-of-the-lineM3 Maxchip.The entire event was centered around how Nvidia’s RTX GPUs outperform modern-day “AI PCs” equipped with NPUs. According to Nvidia, the 10–45 TOPS performance rating found in modern Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm processors is only enough for “basic” AI workloads....

The launch of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs has been marred with several issues, includingshortages,overheating power connectors, anddriver instability. While the first two issues are harder to sort, the last one should be fixable via downloadable software updates. In fact, the company has already released several Hotfix versions, with the last one — version 572.65 — beingreleased March 2. However, it seems that some issues (very similar) remain, so we just received another Hotfix update from Team Green....

Nvidia launched theRTX 5060 Ti 16GBand 8GB models in mid-April, and the GPU with the larger VRAM received relatively positive reviews. However, many say that the 8GB graphics card isstruggling due to a lack of VRAM, even at lower resolutions. Aside from that,Computer Base[machine translated] also discovered another issue brought by the smaller memory: reduced performance in some titles when attached to a PCIe 4.0 slot. The publication measured 27 titles at 1440p, with the 8GB card getting an average FPS of 59....

Nvidia will take a $5.5 billion financial hit after U.S. authorities imposed new export restrictions on its H20 HGX AI GPU designed for the Chinese market,the company said Tuesday. The U.S. government cited H20’s memory and interconnect bandwidth as well as its potential use in supercomputers as reasons for the new restrictions. Nvidia is not alone: the U.S. Department of Commerce has also restricted sales of AMD’s Instinct MI308 to China, according toReuters....

Nvidia’s Arm-based consumer PC platform, which has reportedly been in development for a while,is set to launch about a year from now, in September 2025, according toDigiTimes. The Arm-based PC platform for Windows is expected to rely on Nvidia’s own CPU and GPU designs and will likely target the premium segment of the market. Nvidia’s ambitious client PC platform roadmap includes both internally developed platforms and platforms designed in collaboration with MediaTek....

TheRTX 5090DD was leakeda few weeks ago, a China-specific GPU that sports slightly reduced specs compared to the standard RTX 5090, with the goal of adhering to the intense US export restrictions on China. It turns out that this card has undergone a rebrand, at least as indicated by the latest leaked information. This special version of the RTX 5090 will be called the 5090D V2, instead of its previous “Double D” moniker....

Pegatron showcased a unique rack-scale solution based on 128 AMD’s next-generationInstinct MI350Xaccelerators designed for performance-demanding AI inference and training applications atComputex. The system precedes AMD’s in-house designed rack-scale solutions by a generation, so for Pegatron, this system will serve as a training vehicle to buildrack-scale AMD Instinct MI450X-based IF64 and IF128solutions that are about a year away. The Pegatron AS501-4A1/AS500-4A1 rack-scale system relies on eight 5U compute trays, each packing one AMD EPYC 9005-series processor and four AMD Instinct MI350X AI and HPC accelerators for AI and HPC....

Earlier this month, Raspberry Pi launched the Pi 500 keyboard PC, which takes the internals of a Raspberry Pi 5 and slaps them into a keyboard enclosure doubling as a PC once the user adds power input and a monitor. As noted inour review, this launch came with a baffling omission of NVMe M.2 storage support, an issue that modders are now fixing. Thus, it’s no surprise to see that the Raspberry Pi 500 has been modified to allow NVMe Gen 3 capabilities akin to those in the Raspberry Pi 5, with that in mind — SD card storage is fairly slow, and entry-level working/casual PCs like Pi 500 can still benefit from NVMe storage snappiness....

Razer has launched its “biggest baddest”Blade 18gaming laptop, featuring top-of-the-range mobile processors from Intel and Nvidia, as well as a strong supporting cast of memory, storage, display components, and digital interfaces. The highest-spec model is kitted out with an Intel Core i9-14900HX and the NvidiaGeForce RTX 4090 laptopGPU. All this power is luggable, built into a clamshell featuring up to an 18-inch UHD+ 200Hz display. Razer’s latest gaming laptop is also claimed to be the world’s first to come packingThunderbolt 5....