First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can’t power them
First Nvidia H200 shipments reach China, ByteDance and Tencent take deliveries as Beijing loosens its import block — most licensed chips must stay in Hong Kong, which can’t power them

Beijing wants most of each company’s U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.

Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC’s N2X node

Nova Lake desktop CPUs look to be the exclusive recipient of bLLC, Intel’s answer to AMD’s X3D, as the company looks to debut bLLC on mobile with Razor Lake-HX, and possibly Razor Lake-AX. As such, the Razor Lake family is also rumored to be manufactured on TSCM’s N2X process node.

Adata XPG Novakey RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — Turning salvage into pure performance
Adata XPG Novakey RGB DDR5-6000 C30 2x16GB Review — Turning salvage into pure performance

Amid the memory crunch, Adata unleashes its new XPG Novakey RGB memory kit series. But can the new lineup convince consumers to pick it up?

How to choose a new motherboard without overpaying — scoping out the features you need, and what you might never use as component costs soar
How to choose a new motherboard without overpaying — scoping out the features you need, and what you might never use as component costs soar

How much motherboard is too much? We look at what you actually get as prices climb — from VRMs and connectivity to premium features and diminishing returns.

Overclocker updates Hydra overclocking tool with VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs — new update gives up to +3000 MHz memory offset
Overclocker updates Hydra overclocking tool with VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs — new update gives up to +3000 MHz memory offset

Overclocker 1usmus has released a new update for their Hydra overclocking tool that features VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs.

Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy’s 60th Anniversary sale
Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy’s 60th Anniversary sale

Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.

Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX
Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX

CMP Unlocker enables previously disabled VRAM on Nvidia’s five-year-old CMP 170HX cryptocurrency mining graphics card.

Best Buy ‘repairs’ customer’s gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration
Best Buy ‘repairs’ customer’s gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration

A Redditor claims that Best Buy ‘repaired’ a blue-screen-afflicted under-warranty laptop by simply removing one of its two SODIMMs, and when it passed tests, simply sent it back with half the memory installed.

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399

Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.

Intel’s Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000
Intel’s Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000

Intel’s best Battlemage GPU is now even more expensive due to its large 32GB memory pool that’s very useful for AI workloads.