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Earlier this year, Raspberry Pi Holdings PLC launched its IPO (Initial Public Offering) to great fanfare and it seems that this has translated into success, according to aCity AMreport and the interim results published on theLondon Stock Exchange. At the IPO launch back in June 2024, Raspberry Pi Holdings PLC raised approximately £179 million ($225 million), and according to the report, revenue “soared 61% to $144 million in the six months to June 30....

You can bring the safety andsecurityprovided by the minds of Aperture Laboratories into your home now thanks to maker and developer Reckless_commenter and his latestRaspberry Pi-powered creation. Using our favorite SBC, he’s brought to life the creepysentry turretfrom the ‘Portal’ franchise—albeit a stationary one without bullets that’s still sure to strike fear in anyone familiar with the ominous security drones. According to Reckless_commenter, the idea began simply as an opportunity to 3D print a unit for decoration....

A retail listing of Nvidia’s upcomingRTX 3050 6GBhas finally surfaced, and it seems to have all the details you could ever want to know for the low-end card (viaComputerBase). The retail listing not only describes every single specification for the 3050 6GB, but even includes pricing info and a rough launch date.Initial rumors for the RTX 3050 6GBexpected a regular 3050 but with just 6GB of memory, which would simply mean 2GB less memory and a 25% decrease in memory bandwidth, since losing 2GB of memory means only populating 96 bits of the 128-bit wide memory bus....

With the introduction of Nvidia’sRTX 50-series(Blackwell) GPU lineup last night, the trillion-dollar GPU manufacturer has updated itsSFF-Readylist of supported Nvidia GPUs to incorporate the new Blackwell GPUs. The updated list reveals that the RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the only RTX 5090 variant that qualified as an SFF-Ready product. Nvidia’sSFF-Ready guidelinesdictate that a 70-class NvidiaRTX 40 series(Ada Lovelace) or 50 series graphics card must not be taller than 151 mm, including the power cable bend radius, no longer than 304mm, and no thicker than 50mm or 2....

Ryzen Master has received amassive updatefeaturing several functionality upgrades and changes to the AMD-focused monitoring and overclocking application. The most significant additions areRyzen 9000desktop CPU support and EXPO memory enablement through Ryzen Master. EXPO profiles can now be manipulated within Ryzen Master, allowing users to turn on their memory overclocking profile within Windows. Best of all, the EXPO profiles can be turned on and off on the fly without restart, making it easy for anyone to enable EXPO on an AMD-based machine with EXPO capability....

In an unexpected turn of events, Samsungannouncedon Monday it had inked a $16.5 billion foundry deal with an unnamed partner, confirmed to be Tesla by Elon Musk, who says the company will produce its next-generation A16 chip. The deal represents a major win for Samsung Foundry, which has been lagging behind TSMC for a while. In addition, the deal is big news for Samsung’s fab in Taylor, Texas, where the system-on-chips (SoCs) will be produced....

Several AI companies are circumventing the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt) to scrape content from websites without permission, according to TollBit, a content licensing startup, reportsReuters. This issue has led to disputes between AI firms and publishers, with Forbes accusing Perplexity of plagiarizing its content.TollBit’s letter to publishers, obtained by Reuters, reveals that many AI agents are ignoring the robots.txt standard, which is used to block parts of a site from being crawled....

The Platinum P51, the successor to the highly acclaimed Platinum P41, has finally been introduced to the United States market. Initially unveiled in March of the previous year and subsequently launched exclusively in South Korea in December, the Platinum P51 traveled a long distance to reach this hemisphere, but they’re now here and SK hynix has priced the Platinum P51 very competitively: The 1TB version is available for$169.99, and the 2TB sports a$269....

Synopsys this week received approval from Chinese regulators to complete its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, removing the final obstacle to closing the deal, which happens July 17. The green light from Beijing follows prior clearances from U.S. and European authorities, but was granted with specific conditions. The combined company — which will retain the Synopsys name — will become a powerhouse offering tools that will span the full design spectrum of both chips and actual devices, which will open a lot of new doors both for Synopsys-Ansys and the industry....

If you’re upgrading your current setup or building a new rig, a PCIe Gen 4 SSD should be sufficient for most workloads, including gaming. An easily recommended option is the WD Black SN850X SSD, which tops our list of the best SSDs for the PS5 and is currently available at a reduced price on Amazon. The4TB variant is available at a discounted price of $280, while the2TB heatsink model is priced at $149for the Amazon Prime Day sales....

There’s not been a great deal of movement in the graphics card market for some time now, but we do know there are going to be some high-end cards releasing soon-ish from Nvidia in the early part of 2025 - prices are yet to be confirmed. So what do you do if you need a GPU now? Do you wait, not knowing a precise launch date and price, or do you pull the trigger and get something now?...

Right now atAmazon, you’re able to find theAsus TUF gaming VG27AQ3A monitorfor one of its lowest prices to date. It usually goes for around $249 but occasionally drops to $199 and today it’s back down to that excellent price again. This is the second lowest price we’ve ever seen for the display and a great offer for this particular monitor given its class and performance specs. It sports a QHD IPS panel, is AMD FreeSync Premium certified, and runs at up to 180 Hz performance....

According to news outletThe Information, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is developing two AI GPUs that will enter mass production by 2026. TSMC will make both products. Assuming that the information from an unofficial source is accurate, ByteDance will reduce reliance on Nvidia for AI hardware while staying within the U.S. export regulations. ByteDance’s lineup of AI GPUs, which are in the design phase and will enter mass production in a year, if not later, includes one for AI training and another for AI inference....