Pegatron boss shrugs off rare earth control fuss
Tong Zixian says tighter rules won’t hit Pegatron directly
Pegatron Chairman Tong Zixian insisted that the rare earth control's imposed by China would not directly affect his company.
be quiet! announces Dark Power 14 power supply series
Pure Rock Slim 3 CPU cooler as well
be quiet! kicked off this day with a double announcement of the new Dark Power 14 PSU series and the new Pure Rock Slim 3 CPU cooler. The Dark Power 14 PSU series will be coming in 850W, 1,000W, and 1,200W versions with 80 Plus Titanium rating, while the Pure Rock Slim 3 CPU cooler continues the legacy of the Pure Rock Slim series with a compact design suitable for compact systems.
Montech LightFlow ARGB AIO CPU liquid cooler starts at $64
Coming in 240 and 360 mm versions and two popular color options
Montech has announced its new LightFlow ARGB AIO liquid CPU cooler that will be available in 240 and 360 mm sizes and black and white finishes. Interestingly, it will go on sale at $64 and $70 for 240 mm and 360 mm versions.
NVIDIA Blackwell-based 1 PFLOP DGX Spark arrives to developers
Elon gets a special delivery from Jensen Huang
NVIDIA has announced that it will start shipping its NVIDIA DGX Spark, a 1 PFLOP Blackwell-based world's smallest AI supercomputer. NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, made a special delivery to Elon Musk at SpaceX.
AMD’s Soundwave Arm chips leak
Heading to handhelds
It looks like AMD’s having another go at Arm CPUs, this time with a range codenamed “Soundwave” and aimed squarely at the handheld and low-power gaming market.
Gelsinger warns Intel’s big equity wins mean bugger all
Flashy deals don't fill fabs
Troubled Chipzilla’s ex-boss, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger, has waded in on the firm’s latest equity-focused bromances with the US government and Nvidia, warning that none of it matters if they don’t result in chips getting made in Intel fabs.
Another RX 9070 XT fries its 16-pin cable
Sapphire joins ASRock in the GPU roasting league
Just when we thought the RX 9070 XT was immune to the melted connector circus, another premium board has gone full toaster. This time, it's Sapphire's Nitro+ edition that's joined ASRock’s Taichi OC in the "crispy connector" club.
Intel and AMD toast joint anniversary of advisory club
Acronyms everywhere
Troubled Chipzilla and AMD announced the one-year anniversary of their x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group which they claim is making the x86 architecture more compatible, predictable and less of a dog's breakfast
Nasty and it still works
Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data‑stealing browser attack and adapted it to Android so a malicious app can read pixels from other apps or websites.
Nanya says DDR4 shortage is helping it rake it in
Memory factory finds profit in what others abandoned
The general manager of Nanya Technology, Li Peiying, reckons there’s still life in the old DDR4 market, especially now that the big players have moved on and left a gap wide enough to drive a lorry through.