Chinese customs authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on Nvidia chip shipments, according to reporting by The Financial Times published October 9. The report says enforcement teams have been deployed at major ports to inspect data-center hardware, with a specific focus on Nvidia’s H20 and RTX 6000D — chips designed to comply with U.S. export controls but now under fresh scrutiny from Beijing.
The inspections, which began in recent weeks, are reportedly being coordinated by
Singapore-based companies have long been suspected of procuring restricted AI accelerators from Nvidia to ship them to China, bypassing U.S. sanctions. Although a few smuggling networks have been found , establishing a direct link has been tenuous. However, a recent New York Times investigation has revealed a company with clear Chinese connections, registered in Singapore, that spent roughly $2 billion on Nvidia AI processors and allegedly made them available for Chinese companies or re-exported them to China.
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Sony is finally spilling the beans on some of the hardware upgrades it will be bringing to its next-generation console. AMD's senior VP and general manager of computing and graphics at AMD, Jack Huynh, and Sony's PS5 Lead Architect, Mark Cerny, published a collaborative video discussing new technologies that are being worked on as part of their collaboration, Project Amethyst. Some of these technologies include massive upgrades to AI rendering and ray tracing performance. The new hardware
No worries if you didn't treat your Switch 2 to a pampering during Amazon Prime Day. The Lexar Play Pro 1TB is still a fantastic deal, offering excellent value for your money. It's one of the best microSD Express cards you can get for your Switch 2, now available at a special price of $157.96 at Amazo n — a new record low!
There are so many exciting Switch 2 games coming up soon. If you'
You’ve got one of the best 3D printers , and whether it's one of the best budget 3D printers , or something a little more spendy (like the Prusa CORE One ), you need tools to keep it running smoothly.
Yes, you get some tools in the box, but investing in a dedicated 3D printer toolkit will make short work of caring for your 3D printer.
Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day event is over, but there's a veritable flood of sales still ongoing at multiple 3D printer makers. In addition, there are still some deals to be had at Amazon, too! We're still tracking the great 3D printer deals, so there's still time to grab one of the best 3D printers and a few rolls of filament to
A recent episode of EarthSky highlights the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth. Key points covered in the video, embedded below, are that there are now around 20,000 objects tracked orbiting the Earth. Of these, 12,000 are working satellites, including 8,000 that form SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. In 2025, we are seeing a “couple of satellite re-entries
It's a fairly safe bet that on any given day, at least a good dozen IT departments are trying to convince their bosses and/or users about the vital importance of backups. Unfortunately, it seems that the argument was lost in the South Korean government, as the institution has completely lost the sizable amount of 858 terabytes of data, with 0 bytes of backups.
The event happened on September 26 and was caused by a battery fire at the National
Compute chiplets of AMD's next-generation Instinct MI450-series accelerators based on the CDNA 5 architecture set to be introduced in the second half of next year will be made on TSMC's N2 (2nm-class) fabrication technology , marking the first time the company will use a leading-edge manufacturing process for AI GPUs. Usage of the latest production node could give AMD a major advantage when competing against Nvidia's upcoming Rubin GPUs and systems on
As part of its recent Tech Tour US event, Intel took the wraps off its trio of upcoming Panther Lake SoCs . It also walked us through the improvements and expected performance of its new Xe3 graphics architecture, which is coming to market in the form of two integrated GPU tiles for Panther Lake. For more details on the three primary configurations of Panther Lake SoCs, as well as a more general overview of Panther Lake's CPU resources, check out our dedicated article.
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