Nvidia shows off Blackwell GB200 and GB300 racks
Chipmaker talks modular MGX architecture and rack guts at Hot Chips 2025
Nvidia used Hot Chips 2025 to show how its Blackwell GB200 and GB300 systems are bolted together, highlighting its modular MGX platform and sprinkling in a bit of open compute virtue-signalling along the way.
SK hynix cranks out 321-layer QLC NAND
Chipmaker claims world’s first 300-plus layer QLC flash
SK hynix has started mass production of what it calls the world’s first 321-layer QLC NAND flash chip, a 2Tb storage device designed to push density well past anything seen before.
Pixel 10 forced battery throttle can't be switched off
Google locks users into slower charging and reduced battery capacity
Search giant Google has confirmed that its new Pixel 10 series phones will force users to accept automatic battery throttling through its Battery Health Assistance feature, which can't be disabled.
Mississippi law forces Bluesky to track kids
Social media age law demands surveillance lawmakers (probably) didn’t think through
Social notworking outfit, Bluesky has cut off access to everyone in Mississippi thanks to a sweeping new state law that not only demands age verification for social media users but forces platforms to track the movements and activity of minors.
Glorious people’s government secures ten per cent of Intel
10 per cent of capitalist chipmaker Intel brought into public ownership
In a heroic triumph of state planning over market chaos, the United States people’s government has secured a 10 per cent ownership stake in the formerly unaccountable capitalist chip monopoly, Intel, transforming it into a partially nationalised asset under the watchful guidance of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Comrade Howard Lutnick.