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Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.
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The Nvidia booth at QuakeCon 2026 is offering Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 GPUs at MSRP. Supplies are limited, though, so you should head out ASAP if you want to snag one right now.
Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti’s memory to 22GB, but if you don’t have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.
Apple reportedly as $1 billion worth of iPhone 18 processor wafers awaiting packaging, which hasn’t been completed due to DRAM shortages.
Samsung uses FMS to unveil three next-generation memory technologies — zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND — that target different markets, but all rely on advanced wafer-bonding techniques.
The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.
The Sandisk Optimus GX 7100M is the pinnacle of M.2 2230 SSD goodness. High performance, great power efficiency, and a well-supported drive up to 2TB.
Nvidia cancelled a Redditor’s Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began considering building its sixth DRAM fab in China to boost memory output in the coming years. If all announced projects proceed as planned, the company’s production capacity could more than double in the mid-term future.