Micron this week announced its 9650 SSD, the industry's first solid-state drive with a PCIe 6.0 x4 host interface aimed at performance-hungry workloads and offering unprecedented sequential read speed and random performance. In addition, the company formally introduced its 6600 ION family of SSDs with capacities of up to 245 TB.
Micron's data center-grade 9650 SSD is based on a proprietary controller designed in-house
The Asus ROG G700 delivers strong performance across a range of configuration options. While its dated Wi-Fi and RGB limitations leave room for improvement, its core value is commendable.
Solid gaming performance
Well-put together
Liquid-cooled CPU at this price
Outdated Wi-Fi 6
Limited RGB customization
No room for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives
Excessive branding
XMP not enabled out of the box
Nvidia’s upcoming N1X SoC has made a fresh appearance— this time in FurMark’s benchmark database —offering a first look at the chip’s performance running natively on Windows 11 . While the numbers will certainly not grab headlines, they provide valuable insight into where the chip currently stands in its development cycle.
Identified as “JMJWOA” by FurMark, the N1X reportedly scored 4,286 points in the 720p stress test, averaging
Plans are afoot to create a massive new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that would consume more power than every home in the state combined, a staggering milestone in the ongoing race to meet the excruciating power requirements of AI. The project is expected to kick off with a 1.8 gigawatt facility that would be scalable to 10 gigawatts in the future, as reported by AP .
As the report about this colossal investment in AI computing notes, generally, a single gigawatt is
The trade agreement signed by the U.S. President and the President of the European Commission earlier this week imposes a 15% tariff on virtually all goods made in Europe and shipped to America, except several groups of products that include semiconductor production equipment, which will be subject to zero-for-zero tariffs. As a result, tools made by companies like ASML will not get more expensive in the U.S.
"We have also agreed on zero-for-zero
RAM capacity tends to be a bottleneck for numerous AI applications, but adding memory to host systems is sometimes not possible or complicated, so Enfabrica, a startup supported by Nvidia, has invented its Emfasys system that can add terabytes of DDR5 memory to any server using an Ethernet connection. The memory pool over the Ethernet system is designed for large-scale inference workloads and is currently tested with select clients.
Enfabrica's Emfasys system is a rack-compatible system based on the company'
The FBI in Dallas has seized millions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin from a member of the recently assembled Chaos ransomware group. According to FBI Dallas on X , the Bitcoin funds were allegedly owned by Chaos member "Hors," who has allegedly been responsible for multiple ransomware attacks against victims in the Northern District of Texas, as well as in other locations.
The full amount of Bitcoin the FBI seized was 20.2891382 coins, amounting to almost $
V-Color has announced its newest line of OC RDIMM DDR5 products, now offering registered DIMMs up to 256GB in capacity. Designed specifically for use with the new AMD Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series CPU family, kits of the new RAM have been tested to support as much as 2TB of memory in a single system.
V-Color's newest RAM offerings cover a wide gamut of needs and use cases for the new
The Ryzen 9000-series (codenamed Granite Ridge) processors have been around for more than a year now. However, based on a tip from hardware enthusiast momomo_us , the Pro versions are likely to be released soon as well.
As is customary with each generation of AMD processors, the mainstream models are released initially, with the Pro variants introduced shortly thereafter. They utilize identical silicon and occasionally share similar specifications. Nonetheless, the distinguishing factor of the Pro variants from