As sales of GPU-based AI accelerators remain as strong as ever, the immense demand for these cards has led to some server builders going off the beaten path in order to get the hardware they want at a lower price.… Read More »ASRock Launches Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT Cards for Servers
SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company’s plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded… Read More »SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Club Next Quarter
AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to launch next week, on July 31st. But citing quality issues that… Read More »AMD Delays Ryzen 9000 Launch 1 to 2 Weeks Due to Chip Quality Issues
Micron has introduced its Micron 9550-series SSDs, which it claims are the fastest enterprise drives in the industry. The Micron 9550 Pro and 9550 Max SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface promise unbeatable performance amid enhanced endurance and power… Read More »Micron Launches 9550 PCIe Gen5 SSDs: 14 GB/s with Massive Endurance
Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we’ve seen the introduction… Read More »JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications
HighPoint Technologies has updated their NVMe switch and RAID solutions with PCIe 5.0, and supporting up to eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (switch add-in card) and 7600 series (RAID adapters) are the successors to the SSD SSD7500… Read More »HighPoint Updates NVMe RAID Cards for PCIe 5.0: 50 GBps+ Direct-Attached SSD Storage
In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel’s Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger saga. Facing their biggest client chip instability impediment in decades, Intel… Read More »Intel Addresses Desktop Raptor Lake Instability Issues: Faults Excessive Voltage from Microcode, Fix Coming in August
Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox… Read More »Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole AI Processors: 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week said its revenue for the second quarter 2024 reached $20.82 billion, making it the company’s best quarter (at least in dollars) to date. TSMC’s high-performance computing (HPC) platform revenue share exceeded 52% for the… Read More »TSMCs Q2’24 Results: Best Quarter Ever as HPC Revenue Share Exceeds 52% on AI Demand
As mainstream power supplies continue to make their subtle shift to the ATX 3.1 standard, the pace of change is picking up. Already most vendors offer at least one ATX 3.1 unit in their lineups, and thanks to the relatively… Read More »The Corsair RM750e ATX 3.1 Review: Simple And Effective