Unidentified Intel processor entries have appeared in PassMark PerformanceTest 11.1, with results that could belong to the upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop family.
ASUS has confirmed that its UGen Arc Pro B70 workstation graphics card is available in Germany and Austria for €1,799 including VAT. The card also appears in ASUS Switzerland at CHF 1,799.
A comparison of NVIDIA documents published in October with archived June material indicates that some listed Vera Rubin system bandwidth figures have changed. The reported revisions lower the listed HBM4 and NVLink bandwidth for several configurations, while increasing some networking figures.
A community-developed Linux utility called arc-rebar offers a way to enable a larger Resizable BAR window for Intel Arc graphics cards on some older systems that lack native BIOS support.
A purported AMD EPYC 9996 sample has appeared in Geekbench 7.1 results, offering an early look at the dense-core Zen 6c design. In a single-core run, the 256-core, 512-thread server processor reportedly scored 2,847 points while operating around 4.
Footage shared by Hong Kong hardware outlet HKEPC appears to show GeForce RTX 5090 cards being dismantled at Chinese workshops, with GPU dies and memory chips removed for use on custom accelerator boards.
AMD’s senior director of client product management, Travis Kirsch, has discussed the company’s rationale for dual-CCD 3D V-Cache processors in an interview summarized by IT之家.
Intel CTO Pushkar Ranade has warned that expanding the world’s advanced wafer production capacity by ten times would be unrealistic, even with ample funding. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, Ranade described a more plausible upper limit as approximately a doubling.
MSI has released the MPG COREFROZR AP15, its first air cooler with an integrated display. The screen shows three temperature readings at once: CPU, GPU and DRAM.
Micron has changed its NAND roadmap. At its recent technology and product webinar, the company announced a Generation 11 (G11) 3D NAND and left out a G10.ComputerBase notes that skipped generation numbers are common in the industry.
SK hynix has reportedly cancelled plans for a US initial public offering of its Solidigm storage business, citing volatile financial markets and recent share-price conditions.
MINIX demonstrated its EU738-AI ULTRA mini PC at Japan IT Week, featuring an integrated status display that shows system activity. The compact desktop uses Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H from the Panther Lake family and Intel Arc B390 graphics.
Super Flower has announced an inline protection accessory called the VGA 12+4PIN OCP DONGLE for graphics cards using a 12V-2x6 power connection. It sits between a compatible PSU cable and the GPU socket, monitoring the current on individual lines and warning about unusually high current or uneven distribution.
Download the AMD Chipset Drivers for Ryzen processors. AMD has rolled out a fresh Ryzen chipset driver package, and this one is very much a housekeeping release rather than a flashy update.