Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.
Alphabet rides AI wave
ChatGPT hasn’t killed Google’s cash cow
Alphabet is laughing all the way to the bank with another quarter of fat profits, proving the panic over chatbots eating Google’s lunch was premature.
Intel's slow-motion car crash
More layoffs, fab delays and yet another AI pivot
Intel is hacking away at its workforce and torching grandiose European fab plans in Germany and Poland in a last-ditch effort to look relevant.
Elsa AI rollout at US FDA sparks chaos
Stoned AI delivers hallucinations and headaches
The Trump administration is flogging artificial intelligence as the silver bullet for Washington’s health bureaucracy, but it is turning out to be more trouble than it is worth.
The 512GB (64GBx8) DDR5-6400 CL38 kit
G.Skill has announced its newest high-performance T5 Neo series DDR5-6400 CL38 512GB (64GBx8) overclocked DDR5 R-DIMM memory kit that is aimed to be used with new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO series CPUs and AMD WRX90 chipset motherboards.
Running a full-sized 360mm liquid-cooling AIO
Zotac has announced the new ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5090 ARCTICSTORM AIO, a liquid-cooled Geforce RTX 5090 graphics card that features a full-sized 360 mm radiator.
Entire Google Pixel 10 series lineup revealed
Courtesy of Google Play Store
Although Google is hosting the Pixel 10 event on August 20, where we expect to see the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, the entire lineup has now leaked online.
Maingear unveils its new Retro95 gaming PC
Limited edition PC as homage to '90s-era
Maingear has officially unveiled its new limited-edition gaming PC that is a tribute to the '90s-era of horizontal desktop PCs, taking us back to the time of LAN parties, unreliable networks, and floppy disks.
Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 announcement comes on August 5th
Same clocks but less memory
The upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 will launch on August 5th, according to leaks coming from Chinese media. As detailed earlier, Nvidia is bypassing restrictions by keeping the same clocks but reducing the memory down to 24GB.
Epyc chips fuel AMD’s stunning datacenter comeback
AMD has pulled off a massive comeback in the server CPU market, snatching half the pie from Intel in just a few quarters.