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Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell processors are facing significant challenges with overheating when installed in high-capacity server racks, reportsThe Information. These issues have reportedly led to design changes and delays and raised concerns among customers likeGoogle, Meta, andMicrosoftabout whether they can deploy Blackwell servers on time. According to insiders familiar with the situation who spoke withThe Information, Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC overheat when used in servers with 72 processors inside....

Now that Nvidia is on the finish line with its flagshipGeForce RTX 5090graphics card for gamers, it is time for the company to get ready to launch a perhaps more impressive product: its next-generation RTX 6000 ‘Blackwell Generation’ graphics board for digital content creation (DCC), professional visualization (ProViz), and ‘light AI’ applications. Shipping manifests found byComputerBaseindicate that the new card may feature 96GB of GDDR7 memory. An exporter called ‘N***ON’ apparently sent at least four PG153 graphics cards with 96GB of GDDR7 memory connected to the GPU using a 512-bit interface for testing purposes to India in December, according to NBD....

Nvidia currently sits atop the AI world, with data center GPUs that everybody wants. ItsHopper H100andGH200 Grace Hopper superchipare in serious demand and power many of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Well hang on to your seats: Nvidia just revealed the successor to Hopper. ATGTC 2024today, CEO Jensen Huang dropped the Blackwell B200 bomb, the next-generation data center and AI GPU that will provide a massive generational leap in computational power....

A freshly minted report from TrendForce predicts another quarter of double-digit price prices across theDRAM marketsso that thebest RAMwill get more expensive. The contract price predictions for PC DRAM, which TrendForce says will rise by 10-15% in Q1 2024, are probably the most important to our readers. Server DRAM and Graphics DRAM prices will see a similar scale of increase, according to the source. However, the worst hit will be the mobile market, with DRAM prices rising by 18-23% over the same short period....

Today’s deal features a gaming laptop with some reasonable hardware gaming specs at a budget price point. It’s certainly not going to blow any socks off with its gaming performance, but it will comfortably play the majority of current games on sensible graphics settings, and yes, it’s only $549, which is not a bad deal for a brand-new gaming laptop that’s not a refurb or open-box discount. Available atBest Buy for just $549, the Lenovo LOQ 15(model: 83JC0001US) is a great option if you’re hunting for a budget gaming laptop at an affordable price....

Insider Gaming’s Tom Hendersonhas confirmed that recent specs and performance leaks surrounding the rumoredPlayStation 5 Proare real. Henderson reports that the source material of these new leaks came from documentation leaked from a PlayStation developer portal sent out to third-party developers this week. The leak Tom Henderson refers to states that the PS5 Pro will feature 45% higher rendering performance and two to four times the RT performance of the outgoingPlayStation 5....

PC makers have been preparing to reduce reliance on hardware produced in China for years, and large computer suppliers likeDellandHP seem to have diversified their supply chains. For smaller system integrators, the situation is more complex. Recent U.S. government-imposed taxes on Chinese imports are driving up the cost of computer parts and there’s only so much they can do.Puget Systems publisheda blog post explaining that while it can absorb some of the price changes caused by tariffs, it will inevitably have to pass the higher costs on to its clients....

Shortly after thereport about the cancellation of Qualcomm’s Arm architecture license agreement(ALA) was published, the companies involved traded further accusations. Arm has confirmed that it decided to terminate Qualcomm’s ALA to ‘protect the unparalleled ecosystem,’ whereas Qualcomm accused Arm of anticompetitive conduct. “Following Qualcomm’s repeated material breaches of Arm’s license agreement, Arm is left with no choice but to take formal action requiring Qualcomm to remedy its breach or face termination of the agreement,” a statement by Arm reads....

When Qualcomm formally introduced itsSnapdragon X Eliteplatforms atComputexearlier this month, the company almost solely focused on the AI capabilities of these system-on-chips and only briefly touched upon CPU and GPU. But to take advantage of Qualcomm’s Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU), one needs AI software that can use it. Today, Qualcomm developed, optimized, and validated its AI models for its 45 TOPSHexagonNPU. The models are available at the company’s AI Hub to registered software developers who can use already trained models to build their artificial intelligence-enabled applications....

The Raspberry Pi B+ introduced four USB ports back in 2014 (previous models only had one or two ports), but it wasn’t until theRaspberry Pi 4that we saw USB 3 enter the mix. On the flagshipRaspberry Pi 5, and the previous Pi 4 we get two USB 2 ports, and two USB 3. But what if we want just a few more USB ports? Raspberry Pi has today announced its latest product, a $12 (£10) Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub, which converts one USB 3 port to four, and provides an external power input for power-hungry devices....

The AI boom has allowed the general consumer to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT to get information from prompts demonstrating both breadth and depth. However,these AI models are still prone to hallucinations, where erroneous answers are delivered. Moreover, AI models can even provide demonstrablyfalse (sometimes dangerous) answers. While some hallucinations are caused by incorrect training data, generalization, or other data harvesting side-effects, Oxford researchers have target the problem from another angle....

Today, we’re going to tackle the topic of how the RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 12GB compare — both GPUs that have been on our list of thebest graphics cardsat one time or another. TheNvidia RTX 40-series Ada Lovelace GPUshave been a bit of a mixed bag, particularly on the lower end of the price and performance ladder. TheRTX 4060was widely criticized for cutting back on the VRAM relative to itsRTX 3060 12GBpredecessor, resulting in a relatively minor increase in performance — or sometimes even a performance regression....

AnotherRTX 5090 has been reported with a melted 16-pin connector, adding to the already-long list of such incidents. Fortunately, the GPU-side connector remains intact, as verified by the Redditor. However, the yellow-tipped cable, which was ironically designed to aid users in seating the 12V-2x6 cable properly, was heavily charred, far more so than an overdone brisket. Based on the details we gathered, the Redditor was sporting an MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5090 powered by the Corsair HX1500i (ATX 3....