ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began considering building its sixth DRAM fab in China to boost memory output in the coming years. If all announced projects proceed as planned, the company's production capacity could more than double in the mid-term future.
Hardware
Microsoft once recommended 32GB of RAM as a future-proof "no worries" upgrade for gamers, but it seems that it wants you to forget that it ever gave that suggestion. That's because laptop manufacturers, including Microsoft itself, has once again started selling models with a base configuration of...
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A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn't directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.
Save $750.99 on this powerhouse Gigabyte Aorus Master OLED gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB DDR5 for $1,999.
As cooling becomes a crucial element for economic efficiency of AI data centers, Frore claims that using is LiquidJet coldplate could increase efficiency of token generation by 15%.
Montech's TG3 is a marvelous value in the budget mid-tower space, with ample room for components and four included fans. It also offers solid noise-normalized cooling for the CPU and a good all-around noise profile
In a time of extreme memory and storage pricing, this Apple MacBook Pro deal from Best Buy slashes $900 off the 48GB M4 Pro machine.
The Glorious Wireless InfinitePlay offers solid sound, quality comms, and never-ending uptime at a reduced price. There’s a handful of trade-offs, but this headset has more wins than losses and is definitely worth considering.
A modder has attached a full-sized RTX 5060 graphics card to a ZimaCube 2 NAS server and achieved up to 8x faster performance in games. The jerry-rigged setup doesn't look the most polished, and the CPU is heavily bottlenecked, but it still, uh, exists.
AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.
Japanese technology supplier and distributor confirms that the Gigabyte graphics card will cost between 20% and 40% more due to a new price increase.
Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 com...
Kioxia and Sandisk introduce BiCS10 3D QLC NAND device with a record areal density of over 37 Gbit/mm^2.
Sandisk and SK hynix formally introduce HBF specification that promises up to 3 TB/s of bandwidth eventually, though only four companies are currently interested in the technology.
The company says it is honoring its earlier promise to reverse tariff-driven price increases, becoming one of the first PC hardware vendors to publicly roll back pricing after a major court ruling.
Ultimately, three markers will indicate whether China’s domestic DUV program is a legitimate rival or yet more state-sanctioned hot air.
Data center protesters are getting arrested for minor infractions, yet they continue pushing back against these projects. Aside from the arrests, there's also at least 12 instances (probably more) where the police were called to intervene between politicians and protesters.