Kingston's NV3 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD drops to $156.99 at Newegg
The Kingston NV3 may not be built for heavy workloads, but its respectable gaming performance and low power consumption make this PCIe 4.0 SSD a compelling secondary storage upgrade.
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The E.U.’s AI Drive Undermines Its Own Chip Strategy
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press. The European Union’s push for technological sovereignty faces an uncomfortable contradiction. As the E.U. rolls out AI factories, gigafactories, and new data centers, it is creating a surge in demand for the advanced semiconductors that underpin artificial…
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live
Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi
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Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone
Adata's Urban Tapsafe portable SSD sports magnetic face plates, a metal mounting clip, the ability to unlock the drive with your phone, and share selective access with others via an app.
Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device
CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute
Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first
A dinner plate-sized magnetic core memory homebrew USB device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
In-memory compute with LPDDR5X
Samsung's new 2TB 990 SSD is 36% off at Amazon
Get 36% off the new Samsung 990 2TB SSD, a $190 saving.
The U.S. Is Building CHIPS Act Fabs but Neglecting R&D
On 6 August, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the state of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, a bipartisan federal law passed under the Biden administration to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and R&D. While manufacturing projects funded by the act are making notable progress,…
Peeling Apart That Supposed $120 Billion Chip Deal Google Inked With Marvell
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Crescent Island
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The Network Is More Of Nvidia’s Computer Than It Ever Was At Sun
Samsung Showcases P9 and P7 SSDs Featuring USB4 at Gamescom 2026
Samsung Electronics a global leader in advanced memory technology, today unveiled the P9 and P7, its next-generation portable solid-state drives (SSDs) featuring USB4 connectivity. The company introduced the new P Series at Gamescom 2026, the world’s largest gaming event, held in Cologne, Germany from Aug. 26-30.…
Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU stacks its entire cache on a separate 5nm die and narrows to 256-bit SVE2
Fujitsu gave us a detailed look at its 144-core Monaka server CPU at Hot Chips 2026 on August 24, confirming for the first time that the Arm chip runs dual 256-bit SVE2 vector units, down from the 512-bit SVE in its A64FX predecessor.
China’s Grip on Erbium and Yttrium Could Choke Data-Center Growth
There are 17 rare earth elements. While almost all of them have vital industrial uses, you could be forgiven for believing, based on news coverage, that there are only four that matter: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. To be sure, those are the essential ingredients in the powerful permanent-magnet…
Hot Chips 2026: High Bandwidth Flash promises massive bandwidth and capacity, but its usability is extremely limited
OXMIQ presented its High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) use-case scenarios at Hot Chips 2026, which dramatically narrow the circumstances under which HBF makes sense.
Crucial SSD owner offered $200 refund for 4TB drive now selling for over $500
Micron initially told a customer that no replacement Crucial X9 4TB SSDs were available and offered a refund based on last year’s purchase price, but a firm pushback ultimately resulted in a replacement.
Hot Chips 2026: Arm details AGI server CPU with two 70-core N3P chiplets
Arm reveals more details about its AGI processors with up to 136 cores, but fails to disclose performance.
Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu’s Monaka CPU
Building on a long history of HPC-focused cores, and looking beyond HPC
You Probably Forget How Cheap Memory Used To Be – And Is Not So Now
Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake
Intel's Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel's latest 18A node.
Apple launches new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple silicon chips — debuting in new Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Apple has announced new M6 and M5 Ultra chips, a new Mac mini, and a new Mac Studio.
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency’s main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in…
Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia breaks down 88-core Vera CPU
Nvidia has provided more color on its Vera CPU for agentic data centers at Hot Chips 2026, showcasing the benefits of spatial multithreading and the power benefits of the LPDDR5X memory system.
Stock up on Seagate hard drives with $30 off the 8TB Barracuda HDD — Its lowest price at Best Buy since April
Save $30 on an 8TB Seagate Barracuda HDD at Best Buy. The lowest price since April.
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Diamond Rapids
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Hot Chips 2026: Intel Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' comes with up to 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of last-level cache
Intel has pulled back the curtain on its next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon CPUs, packing up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 TB of last-level cache.
Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Wildcat Lake
All about making things affordable
Hot Chips 2026: IBM's first dual-ISA core natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same core; all cores run at 5.7 GHz base frequency
IBM is vastly expanding softwarte support on its mainframes with its first dual-ISA CPU core that natively supports z/Architecture and ARM instructions.
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V
CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.
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This article is brought to you by Emerson. I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry. And one lesson has stayed with me through every major technology shift: innovation always creates new complexity. In semiconductors, we have seen that repeatedly. Every generation has…
Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)
Machine learning workloads have an insatiable appetite for DRAM capacity. Flash memory is cheaper per gigabyte of capacity than DRAM. Could it offer a way out?
Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities
Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities
Poetry for Engineers: Safe Distance
How do I touch you across the ocean, across cold depths where light travels through glass. Not copper—fibers. Optical. Through liquid glass, through flickering light that carries you in fragments. Light broken into pulses. You say: it’s easier this way. What are we missing like this? You smile. Safe distance. I say:…
Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes
Maxell and Disk Union collaborate to release special edition UD-60U cassette tapes in Japan.
SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon
The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 expansion cards for the Xbox Series X|S are now available on Amazon starting at $249.99 for the 1TB variant. While gamers can use external drives to copy and backup games from the Xbox consoles, they need expansion cards like these from SanDisk or Seagate if they want to install more games.
Sandisk's new $2,200 NAS SSD lets you fill the drive every day for five years — 7.68TB M.2 flaunts eye-popping 14,000 TBW rating
Sandisk has announced the NAS 600 SATA and NAS 800 NVMe SSD lineups that target NAS environments.
Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600
A 30TB TLC enterprise SSD now costs $22,600, 6.5 times higher the $3,460 it fetched around this time last year.
Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building
Loudoun County recently changed its zoning policy which treated data centers as office parks. These projects now have to go through an approval process from the people and the local government, a significant change after more than 25 years of easy approvals.
AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors
IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum
MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
Cerebras Overclocks WSE-3 Waferscale Engine To Boost Inference Oomph In “Nexus” CS-4
Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture
Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale
Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.
Cisco Can Finally Sell Lots Of Supercomputers And Their Networks
From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as triaging problems, debugging code, and testing the software. At the…