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For sale: Cheyenne supercomputer with 8,064 Xeon CPUs and 306TB of DDR4 memory — some assembly and maintenance required
The U.S. government is auctioning off the Cheyenne supercomputer that entered operation in back in 2016. It currently requires some repairs and maintenance, weighs about 26,000 pounds, and is in need of a new home. Current bidding sits at less than $30,000 — though the reserve has not yet been met.
Nvidia H100 GPU black market prices drop in China — banned by US sanctions but still available
Nvidia's "banned in China" H100 GPU is getting cheaper, even in China when looking at black market pricing. That's thanks to improving supply, despite the U.S. sanctions, coupled with the impending availability of H200 GPUs.
TSMC details 12.8 Tbps on-package optical communications — an efficient silicon photonics interconnect for AI
TSMC goes optical with a 3D stacked silicon photonics interconnect called COUPE — Compact Universal Photonic Engine. It could deliver up to 12.8 Tbps of on-package connectivity for future chip designs.
Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes — issues statement about recommended BIOS settings to board partners
Intel has provided guidelines for BIOS settings that it recommends its board partners apply to their motherboards by default. These settings are intended to improve 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 CPU stability, though the investigation is ongoing.
Enthusiast mods a 512GB QLC SSD into a 120GB SLC SSD — endurance and performance benefits charted
A computer engineer and tech enthusiast has converted his Crucial BX500 512 GB SSD from quad-level cell to single-level cell NAND, reducing capacity to 120GB in the process. Then he checked for endurance and performance benefits.
US justifies Huawei's Intel-powered AI laptops, saying chip bans aren't meant to hobble China's growth
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims the Chip War is not meant to restrict or hold back China, ignoring real-world impacts on Chinese industry and the claims of other U.S. lawmakers.
Nvidia has another RTX 4070 variant brewing — this one uses a down-binned AD103 GPU from the RTX 4080 Super
Nvidia has a new RTX 4070 variant coming, this one using AD103 silicon rather than the usual AD104 GPU. The RTX 4070 (AD103) will apparently have over 40% of the potential GPU cores disabled, along with one memory controller.
MSI Claw claims up to 150% added performance from new BIOS and GPU driver updates — 28% improvement on average across 19 tested games
MSI has updated its Claw handheld gaming PC with a new BIOS update as well as a new graphics driver update that boosts performances by up to 150%.
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