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Ahead ofCES2025, Nvidia is giving away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang. The trillion-dollar GPU giant has posted the first two GPU giveawayson X, featuring theGeForce 256and GeForce 8800 Ultra. The giveaway is under the “GeforceGreats” hashtag that Nvidia has set up for all of its CES 2025-related content. Both GPUs have been installed in a black display box featuring Jensen’s signature in gold handwriting at the bottom right....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Onkyo’s Creator Series speakers deliver capable audio in a mostly premium-looking package, with nearly every connectivity option you can think of, plus a built-in phono preamp, included (plastic) speaker stands, and ARC (HDMI) support on the GX-30ARC. Plethora of connection options Speaker stands included Solid sound for the price and size Visible seams around the enclosures Speaker stands are plastic GX-30ARC uses proprietary speaker cable Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

Black Friday is in full swing and we’re super excited to see that Prusa, one of the best and most popular 3D printer brands, is joining in on the sales. They’ve got tons of deals on their printers and are offering free shipping site-wide along with handfuls of gifts to go along with many of their offerings. Here’s a glimpse at some of our top picks from their Black Friday deals but you’re able to check out the full list of promotions over at the officialPrusa website....

Qualcomm has accused its longtime partner, Arm Holdings, of unfair business practices, taking the matter to U.S., Europe, and South Korea regulators. The allegations claim that Arm limits access to its technologies and changes licensing models in a bid to harm competition, according toBloomberg. Arm denies the accusations. Qualcomm has reportedly filed secret complaints against Arm with the European Commission, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Korea Fair Trade Commission....

Rapidus plans to install as many as 10 EUV lithography tools into its upcoming fabs in Japan, reportsTrendForce, citingNikkan Kogyo Shimbun. The tools will be used for mass production of chips on 2nm-class process technology starting in 2027. Rapidus plans to install 10 EUV lithography machines in its IIM-1 and IIM-2 semiconductor production facilities, according to Atsuyoshi Koike, the chief executive, who spoke with Nikkan. In December 2024, the first EUV lithography equipment for Japanarrivedat New Chitose Airport, marking a key milestone in Rapidus’s development and the revival of the Japanese semiconductor industry....

In an ideal world, words would flow directly from your brain onto the computer screen at lightning speed and you’d never need to move your hands. In the real world, we rely on keyboards – preferably one of thebest mechanical keyboards– to do our data entry and we use a pointing device such as a mouse to navigate through the UI. However, even the most comfortable mechanical keyboards on the market force you to pick up your hands to reach a mouse or trackpad and to get to your numpad....

The Raspberry PiCompute Module 5(CM5) has been spotted in the wild. This unannounced compact-optimized version of the Pi 5 is apparently on show at the electronica 2024 show in Munich, which runs until tomorrow afternoon. Twitter / X userFernandoshared a photo of the CM5 plus a glimpse of its IO Board, quickly retweeted by eminent Pi-aficionado Jeff Geerling. A Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 seems to be on public display at @electronicaFair 24 in Germany today… 👀 https://t....

AI expert Shyam Gollakota from the University of Washington, together with his team of researchers,found a way to use artificial intelligencein real-time active noise cancellation, which can remove specific sounds without altering the headphone’saudio. He presented this idea on May 16 at a conference held bythe Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association, where he showed a working prototype. Gollakota and his team used a smartphone-based neural network to identify, train, and filter 20 different environmental sound categories, such as sirens and alarm clocks, that one would typically hear daily....

High-performance cooling specialist Thermal Grizzly has launched the Intel Mycro Direct-Die Pro RGB V1. This is a direct-die (delidded) CPU cooling block for liquid-cooled setups based around Intel LGA1700 processors. Compared to its predecessor, this ‘Pro’ model, with the added sparkle of RGB lighting, delivers “up to 6 degrees Celsius lower temperatures.” It isn’t the RGB that makes the difference; of course, the key innovation is said to be a tweaked copper base plate design....

AnRTX 4090 Tiprototype has been reportedly discovered in a computer junk bin. The card sports a PCB mounted parallel to the motherboard and display connectors mounted on a separate daughterboard. Redditor This_Explanation_514 made this rare find and shared it on ther/nvidia subreddit(h/tVideoCardz), although the subreddit’s moderators have since deleted the original post. While there have beenother unreleased RTX 4090 Ti leaks, this is the first time we have seen the GPU’s PCB....

Baikal Electronics, a Russian CPU developer, has managed to produce and sell 85,000 of its processors between its founding in 2012 and the end of 2024. Although the company has designed CPUs for all types of applications, the majority of 85,000 units were low-end Baikal-T for embedded applications that the company obtained before 2022, reportsCNews. It seems the company’s management is looking to create more CPUs do address the need for domestic PCs...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanisn’t exactly known for thinking small, but his latest comments push the boundaries of even his usual brand of audacious tech talk.In a new post on X, Altman revealed that OpenAI is on track to bring “well over 1 million GPUs online” by the end of this year. That alone is an astonishing number—consider that Elon Musk’s xAI,which made waves earlier this year with its Grok 4 model, runs on about 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs....

A Singapore court has granted bail to three men accused of illegally smuggling high-performance Nvidia chips,reports Reuters. The case involves an alleged $390 million fraud linked to unauthorized exports of servers containing these chips to Malaysia. The individuals charged are Singaporeans Aaron Woon Guo Jie and Alan Wei Zhaolun, along with Chinese national Li Ming. Prosecutors allege that they deceived major U.S. technology suppliers, includingDellTechnologies and Super Micro Computer, by misrepresenting the final destination of high-performance servers equipped with advanced Nvidia chips....