Nvidia's H100 and H200 GPUs, despite being a generation old now, sell like hotcakes. Their demand is largely predicated on the overnight surge in demand for AI applications across the industry, along with Nvidia being essentially the only company that can supply high-quality AI accelerators at such a rate. Over the last week, various reports have described a shortage of H100/H200 GPUs, probably spurred in part by
German motorists facing ‘plague’ of electric car charger cable thefts – 70 charging points a day being gutted to sell for copper scrap
Electric car charging businesses in Germany are scrambling to combat cable theft, according to a report shared by Golem.de (machine translation). The “plague” is so bad that a reported 70 charging stations were gutted for their cabling in a single day. The scale of the problem is such that it has become difficult for repairers and cabling suppliers to keep up with the work. We saw ample photo and video evidence from annoyed German social media users, communicating
After locking out the U.S., China offers rare earth development assistance to Malaysia — country has estimated 16.2 million metric tons of elements worth $175 billion
Malaysian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sustainability Johari Ambud Ghani revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping offered the country technical assistance to develop its rare-earth processing capabilities. Digitimes reported that the leader of the Communist Party of China proposed this deal during his visit in 2024, but it came with one key condition: the cooperation will be limited to state-owned companies only, citing technology protection concerns.
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Nvidia dominates GPU shipments with 94% share — 27% surge in shipments likely caused by customers getting ahead of tariffs
The total number of GPUs sold for the second quarter of 2025 hit 11.6 million units, while desktop PC CPUs went up to 21.7 million units according to a Jon Peddie Research report. This is a 27% increase in graphics card shipments and a 21.6% jump in CPU shipments from the last quarter, which is a change from the usual drop in deliveries we’ve seen in recent years.
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TSMC swats away rumors that Jensen Huang visited to pressure company into revenue-sharing plan with Trump administration
Two weeks ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise visit to Taiwan where he met TSMC for a few hours. It was a short stay but it sparked customary rumors pertaining to why he was there. Originally, it was thought to be just a routine check-up on the upcoming Vera Rubin chips that TSMC is manufacturing for Nvidia. However, amidst the thought pool, a report had claimed that Huang was actually there to deliver a message from President
China subsidizes AI computing for small domestic companies — 'computing power vouchers' spread across multiple Chinese cities
China is continuing to expand access to AI computing power to its workforce, and has begun using its nationalized data centers to do so. Many of China's local governments have begun rolling out "computing power voucher" programs , aimed at helping SMEs (small and medium enterprises) access AI training power at heavily subsidized costs.
The voucher program has so far been seen in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Henan, Shandong, Chengdu, Shenzhen, and Ningbo. These cities have begun distributing
Crucial T710 2TB SSD Review: A Subdued Lion
Tom's Hardware Verdict
A worthy successor to the T705 if you care about power efficiency, but it doesn't come with significant performance improvements over its predecessor.
Pros
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Class-leading power efficiency
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All-around decent performance
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Good sustained write performance
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No standout performance area
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Cost
Making a 3D-printed custom GPU fan shroud with a DDR5 slot doesn't let you add extra VRAM, but at least it looks cool
Expandable memory has arguably been one of the most desired features users have wanted in GPUs over the past 20 years. GDDR memory stubbornly remains soldered, but some people apparently want the thrill of plugging a DIMM into a GPU regardless. Bitsandpcs.Tech on Facebook recently showed off the work of a modder who went the extra mile to 3D-print a fan shroud that incorporates a single DDR5 slot on the side.
Before you start second-guessing yourself,
Cloudflare blocks record-setting 11.5Tbps DDoS attack two months after the previous record-setting DDoS attack
Cloudflare announced today that it blocked a record-setting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which bombarded its target with 11.5 Tbps of traffic for approximately 35 seconds.
"Cloudflare's defenses have been working overtime," the company said in an X post. "Over the past few weeks, we've autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Bpps and 11.5 Tbps
ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
SK hynix and ASML early on Wednesday announced that they had assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at the company's fab M16 in Icheon, South Korea. The device will initially serve as a development vehicle for next-generation process technologies, but eventually it will be used for mass production of DRAM using leading-edge process technologies a few years down the line.
For SK hynix, the assembly of one