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Samsung reportedly slashes HBM3 prices to woo Nvidia — cuts could put the heat on rivals SK hynix and Micron as company attempts to spur AI turnaround

Samsung is reportedly slashing HBM3E costs to win back Nvidia and challenge rivals SK hynix and Micron. A ZDNet Korea report reveals internal pricing changes and packaging tweaks as Samsung aims to make its AI memory more competitive in a high-stakes battle for dominance in the AI hardware space.

Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025

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Nvidia's Maxwell and Pascal families of GPUs set new bars for performance and power efficiency when they first launched, but the world of real-time graphics has gone through massive shifts since their launches about 10 years ago. Even with those industry shifts, GeForce 10-series cards have soldiered on with solid enough performance in many games, especially the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and its 11GB of VRAM.

Despite Pascal's impressive longevity, Nvidia is ready

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China raises security concerns over Nvidia's H20 Chips — hardware may expose user data or hidden tracking functions

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Although Nvidia is now permitted to sell its H20 HGX GPU to Chinese entities without a mandatory U.S. export license, the company may face an unexpected roadblock. According to a Reuters report , China now questions the security of the processor. China's concerns stem from fears that the hardware might expose user data or contain hidden tracking functions.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently subpoenaed Nvidia for a meeting to explain whether the H20 processor includes any security

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Future Games Show announces hosts for Gamescom showcase — 'Metal Gear Solid' and 'Resident Evil' actors to present

The Future Games Show has picked video game actors David Hayter and Maggie Robertson to host its showcase at Gamescom on August 20.

RDNA 4's Unreal Engine 4 ray-tracing stutters may not be AMD-specific

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Recent Reddit reports discovered AMD's latest RX 9000 series GPUs are prone to severe stuttering issues in Unreal Engine 4 games with ray-tracing. YouTuber Tech Yes City published a deep dive on the subject, revealing that the issue is not entirely AMD-centric — as some reports have implied. Intel's Arc B580 also suffers from similar stuttering problems.

The YouTuber tested two ray-traced supported Unreal Engine 4 games on an RX 9070

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Researchers find automated financial traders will collude with each other through a combination of 'artificial intelligence' and 'artificial stupidity'

Researchers at Wharton and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have a working paper detailing the ways automated tools that rely on reinforcement learning can end up colluding with each other.

Meta's Zuckerberg outlines vision for 'personal superintelligence' in a letter — says that, unlike rivals, his approach isn't about automating everything

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Mark Zuckerberg has spent the better part of a decade chasing new computing frontiers, from VR to the metaverse. But today, the Meta CEO staked his next big bet on what he calls “personal superintelligence.” Unlike past efforts, this one isn’t just about virtual spaces or avatars: It’s about building AI that feels like an extension of yourself, and it’s going to require some of the most powerful hardware stacks on the planet.

In an open

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Acer's 32-inch 4K monitor drops to just $189 — 37% off this VA screen for back to school and basic gaming

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If you're currently shopping around for a monitor deal, you may have already spotted this pretty amazing deal on a 4K "gaming" monitor from Acer. It seems to have everything you could possibly want in a screen, but at a staggeringly low price. This monitor has an ultra-high definition resolution, 32 inches of screen real estate, and will only set you back $189.99; that's cheaper than some 1080

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Apple Silicon

Apple's M4 MacBook Pro hits record low — get $300 off the ultimate back-to-school companion

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Hot off the heels of an all-time low price on the MacBook Air, Apple's M4 MacBook Pro has also just hit a fresh new low at Amazon, just in time for the end of summer and heading back to school.

Right now, you can grab the M4 MacBook Pro (14-inch) for just $1,299 instead of $1,599, a $300 saving and the lowest-

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Chinese CPUs are closing the gap on AMD — next-gen Zhaoxin chips feature 96 cores, 12-channel DDR5 memory, and 128 PCIe 5.0 Lanes

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Zhaoxin , one of China's top fabless semiconductor companies, has announced the company's next-generation KaiXian KX-7000N and Kaisheng KH-50000 processors at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2025. The former is a new consumer chip for AI PCs, while the latter is a server chip with specifications that rival AMD's EPYC portfolio.

The Kaisheng KH-50000, the successor to

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