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Elon Musk announced that SpaceXAI will deploy 660,000 additional Nvidia GB300 GPUs across three shipments this year, bringing the Colossus supercomputer complex to 1.44 million total processors in operation.
Tower Semiconductor and Japan's government will jointly fund a $4 billion expansion that will increase the company's optical connectivity output 40-fold by 2029, positioning it as a critical supplier for AI infrastructure.
Testing reveals that enabling DLSS 5 on Nvidia's flagship GPU drives power connector temperatures above 90 degrees Celsius and current draw to 10.1 amperes—exceeding safety specifications when connections are imperfect.
Four months after launch, the LX 7G100 graphics card shows performance on par with AMD's nine-year-old Radeon RX 580 but lags significantly behind current-generation Nvidia and AMD offerings.
The system builder is offering five pre-configured gaming PCs equipped with Nvidia's hard-to-find Founders Edition GPUs at steep discounts during Walmart's Nvidia GeForce Week promotion.
A Munich court has issued injunctions against Micron for infringing YMTC's 3D NAND patents, marking a significant victory for the Chinese chipmaker in an escalating three-year legal battle spanning multiple continents.
Patches to AMD's open-source Linux kernel driver reveal support for GDDR7 memory and new graphics IP blocks, suggesting the company is preparing software for its upcoming discrete graphics processors.
Beijing launched nine satellites including Supercomputing-1, designed to process Earth imagery in orbit rather than transmitting raw data to ground stations, signaling a shift toward distributed computing infrastructure beyond Earth.
