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Valve's aim for a console-like experience with its Steam Machine lands a little too close for comfort as one of the first cases of 'Red Line of Death' comes to light (Update: The machine survived)
News The issue eventually resolved itself.
Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
News Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.
SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
News That's $52 billion for a NAND plant and $13 billion for a chip packaging plant.
Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant
News HTGR does brrrr. CPU in PCs running the demo goes brrrr-er.
Rumours suggest Intel may be planning to join the club of hardware manufacturers reviving old product lines, all the way back to Comet Lake
News What a throwback.
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
News But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
News There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.
Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
News That could be a tough sell.
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