NVIDIA's CMP 170HX GPUs have allegedly received a second life with a new tool that unlocks up to 80 GB memory, making them a viable AI solution.
The CMP 170HX GPU was launched all the way back in 2021. It was released at the peak of the mining craze and offered a cut-down A100 "Ampere" configuration with 8 GB and 10 GB VRAM options. The card found multiple uses after the crypto mining crash, but
Shortly after the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved , a few developers shared on LinkedIn that they had been laid off, sparking fears of another round of layoffs at developer Halo Studios . The studio once known as 343 Industries came unscathed out of the latest round of mass Xbox layoffs , but that could change quickly, especially since the game's early reception hasn't been great.
However, GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi reported that there haven't been any internal job cuts and that those people were external
NVIDIA's Rubin Ultra & Vera chips are subject to various "downgrade" rumors, but the company says that it is part of its optimization strategy.
Recently, there has been lots of online chatter surrounding NVIDIA's Vera , Vera Rubin , and Rubin Ultra platforms . Most of the discussion is centered around rumors of a potential downgrade that will cut the memory subsystem on these chips significantly.
Now, rumors surrounding downgrades, down-spec, and delays aren't new for NVIDIA chips. There have been similar
Just a few weeks after AMD inked a deal with Cerebras to boost the inference capabilities of the upcoming Helios rack-scale system, it has acquired Taalas, a startup that designs chips specifically for inference-related workloads.
AMD reported what should have been stellar earnings earlier this week, replete with data center revenue growing by 107 percent year-over-year, a 246 percent beat on the consensus EPS estimate, and a 13 percent growth in adjusted gross margin.
Combined with AMD's earlier disclosure of now controlling around half of the data center CPU market , the earnings announcement should have precipitated a euphoric reaction in the market. Yet, that did not happen, and there are a couple of reasons behind it
Today, Ubisoft celebrated the 25th anniversary of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by releasing a free title update for Ghost Recon Wildlands , called Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites .
Developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux , Last Rites presents a brand-new standalone mission set in a darker, more oppressive version of Bolivia. The Ghosts venture into a territory dominated by Los Penitentes, a zealous cult bound by faith, sacrifice, and brutal justice. Players must track down La Llorona , the cult leader, while navigating treacherous swamps and
Elon Musk was already aiming for an unprecedented degree of semiconductor-related vertical integration within the confines of the uber-ambitious Terafab joint project between Tesla and SpaceX.
Even so, the mega-billionaire has just dialled up his ambitions by a significant notch by also throwing in memory-related ambitions into this proverbial silicon cauldron.
For the benefit of those who might not
It’s well-documented that when an RTX 5090 is running at full tilt, it can end up melting the 12VHPWR connector due to its wattage-guzzling attributes. As powerful as it might be to deliver record-high framerates, this is one major trade-off that gamers have to watch out for. Fearing that the same fate will befall his GPU, one user has developed an open-source tool that automatically shuts down the PC if it detects that the graphics card is drawing
Too much of a good thing can become poison, as DeepSeek appears to be finding out now after it nipped OpenAI's nascent price war in the bud by aggressively cutting the price of its V4 Flash model, unleashing a demand tsunami that its infrastructure simply can't keep up with.
As we detailed recently, OpenAI launched a literal price war a few days back by discounting its GPT-5.6 Luna by as much as 80 percent , with input tokens now priced at just $0.2
Windows 11 will always benefit from having more memory, but the ongoing DRAM crisis forced Microsoft to make some amendments to its previous statements, such as 32GB being ideal for serious users. With these claims removed, the software giant can now focus on what’s important for the millions of users who have gravitated to the latest OS: RAM optimizations.
The details mentioned by Microsoft used to be available on the company’s Learning Center homepage. However, that material has now been removed, and if you
