IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself. Krishna said today’s figures for constructing and populating large AI data centers place the industry on a trajectory where roughly $8 trillion of cumulative commitments would require around $800 billion of annual profit simply to service the cost of capital.

The claim was tied directly to assumptions about current hardware, its depreciation

The Nvidia GeForce cards released in the mid-2010s were a pretty hot commodity. Many here will likely have fond memories of the massively popular GTX 970, 1070, and 1080 GPUs. All good things must come to an end, however, and the recently released Nvidia 590-series Linux beta drivers have confirmed what we'd already figured would happen: feature support for 900-series and 10

Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs. Under the partnership, which was announced on December 1, the two companies will co-develop tools intended to shift computationally heavy EDA tasks from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs.

Synopsys already dominates several segments of the chip-design software market, including generative AI for chip development , and its tools are used across the industry by CPU and

We've seen our fair share of GPU scams around here, with unlucky buyers receiving all sorts of fascinating oddities like rice and macaroni , or even a literal brick in lieu of the card they actually ordered. It's a tale as old as time, and, unfortunately, another Redditor has been shrouded in this narrative. After waiting for a while for GPU prices to come down, our victim finally bit the bullet, only to find sediment, and not

One of the cooler applications of Thunderbolt is the ability to connect external GPUs. However, you lose a lot of performance that way because PCI Express has to be wrapped in Thunderbolt, and that's inefficient. You get better performance if you simply run a wire for a direct PCI Express connection, which is exactly what the OCuLink standard is for, but you really don't see that on consumer hardware much. Well, thanks to the modularity and open-source nature of Framework

If you didn't manage to snag a bargain during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday mayhem, don't be too disappointed: as the sales frenzy begins to subside, there are still plenty of deals to be had. Price rises on RAM in particular have become ridiculous as the reality of AI and data centers gobbling up all the resources starts to have a knock-on effect on consumer products. Finding a prebuilt PC or parts bundle is now one way to offset those increased costs

Retro video gaming company My Arcade just launched the official Pac-Man 45th Anniversary retro arcade consoles. The company says that it will offer the Pac-Man 45th Anniversary Mighty Player and Pocket Player Max to retro gaming fans, both of which will come preloaded with Pac-Man (Classic), Pac-Man (Speed-Up), Pac-Land, Super Pac-Man, and Pac & Pal. These retro consoles aren’t as large as

Copper producers and market analysts are starting to outline a supply gap that arrives just as hyperscale AI campuses ramp toward record power draws. The International Energy Agency’s latest critical minerals outlook places copper on a path where existing and planned mines meet only about 70% of projected 2035 demand.

Wood Mackenzie expects shortages to appear far earlier, with a 304,000-tonne refined-copper deficit forecast for 2025 and a

It's no surprise to see modern AAA games occupying hundreds of gigabytes of storage these days, especially if you are gaming on a PC. But somehow, Arrowhead Game Studios, the developers behind the popular co-op shooter Helldivers 2 , have managed to substantially cut the game’s size by 85%.

As per a recent post on Steam , this reduction was made possible with support from Nixxes Software, best known for developing high-quality PC ports of Sony ’s