While the AI market has almost reflexively focused on NVIDIA’s Blackwell accelerators, SoftBank is attempting to redefine the playing field with a comparatively modest but strategically astute idea: hardware-level GPU partitioning for AMD’s Instinct accelerators. At the heart of this is close collaboration with AMD and the use of a proprietary orchestrator that divides AMD […]

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The next stage in the BIOS arms race has been reached. After 800W and 1000W versions, a 2500W XOC BIOS for the MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z is now circulating. What sounds like overclocking romance is, in practice, a high-risk experiment – especially for cards that were never designed for such power consumption. 600 watts […]

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The next bottleneck is approaching. After DRAM and NAND, it is now the turn of traditional hard drives. Western Digital has effectively announced that it is sold out for the 2026 calendar year. CEO Irving Tan confirmed during the Q2 earnings call that capacity is fully committed to firm orders. The key phrase: “pretty much […]

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A DIY project with a powerful message: YouTuber ETA Prime builds a kind of Steam Machine from a mining board – for around $150. The basis is the ASRock BC-250, a relic from the crypto euphoria, equipped with partially defective console chips. The result: surprisingly playable, but technically not a sure-fire success. PS5 chip, second […]

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The once spartan text editor is becoming a potential target for attacks. What used to be little more than a digital notepad is now packed with features – and that is precisely the problem. Microsoft closed the CVE-2026-20841 security vulnerability on Patch Tuesday in February. The CVSS score is 8.8, and the attack complexity is […]

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With Mesa 26.0, the free Linux graphics stack is experiencing one of the biggest ray tracing upgrades in recent years. Anyone running a Radeon based on RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, or RDNA 4 and using the Vulkan driver RADV will see dramatic performance gains in some cases – without the need for new hardware. This […]

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A used MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Super Ventus is currently causing a stir on Reddit. In the PCMR subreddit, user TwistedColossus describes how the card reportedly “instantly burst into flames” during a test run – including a burnt hole in the circuit board. This is not a melted 12VHPWR connector, as seen in previous discussions […]

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The latest figures from Mercury Research on the x86 CPU market for the fourth quarter of 2025 are more than just a snapshot. They mark a structural shift in the balance of power between AMD and Intel. AMD ends the year with a 41.3 percent share of server sales. This is not a statistical outlier, […]

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Microsoft is apparently rethinking the fundamentals of its subscription ecosystem. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft is in the early stages of testing ways to expand or structurally adjust the Xbox Game Pass lineup. No concrete decisions have been made, but the direction is clear: more bundling, more flexibility, and possibly less fragmentation. […]

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According to reports, China’s largest DRAM manufacturer, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), plans to convert around 20 percent of its total production to HBM3. That corresponds to around 60,000 wafers. This is not a symbolic gesture, but a strategic shift in capacity with a clear goal: AI. Capacity shift instead of cheap RAM For a long […]

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The threat of tariffs against TSMC appears to have been defused for the time being. According to information from the Financial Times, the US government is planning an exemption model that will spare the Taiwanese semiconductor giant from future US chip tariffs, provided that the massive investments in the United States are implemented as announced. […]

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