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Nvidia is reportedly preparing a China-focused variant of its Blackwell B200 AI GPU, dubbed the B20. This will inevitably require some serious alterations and modifications to comply with U.S. export restrictions, which effectively cap performance at around 600 TFLOPS FP8 — the standard B200 is about 7.5 times that fast.

Tech baron Elon Musk has taken to Twitter/X to boast of starting up “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world.” Today, xAI’s Memphis Supercluster began AI training using 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected with a single RDMA fabric.

Best Buy has started selling the ROG Ally X despite the device not being available yet in Asus' in-house online retail store.

A leak has confirmed that Intel will utilize the Core Ultra moniker for its next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs and that Z890 will be the name of Intel's next-gen flagship chipset.

Asus' XG eGPU interface gets reverse-engineered, open-sourced, and applied to an older eGPU dock as a proof of concept.

Handheld console, eGPU, and laptop maker One-Netbook is venturing into the mini-PC space with the OneXPlayer M1.

A prominent hardware leaker has some bad news for enthusiasts impatiently waiting for Nvidia's next generation of consumer graphics cards. 'I think we won't see RTX 50 until CES,' wrote Kopite7kimi earlier today. Sprinkle liberally with the usual skepticism, naturally.

Last week's CrowdStrike crash was caused by the app's kernel level access to Windows. However, Microsoft cannot legally stop companies from that level of access because of an agreement it made with the European Commission in 2009.

The Nvidia RTX 3050 takes on the Intel Arc A750 in another budget GPU matchup, with both cards offering 8GB of VRAM. However, the two cards have very different ways of putting power to the pavement. We compare the GPUs on performance, price, features, power consumption, and more in this…

PC21.fr lists the retail prices for the Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and the Ryzen 9 9900X.

Intel refocuses its European efforts to Ireland, Germany, and Poland.