Podcast #765 – NVIDIA Blackwell, MAINGEAR ship PCs with Delidded 14900KS, first SK hynix Gen5 SSD, fresh DDOS attack methods, and more!

Another week, another podcast. This seems to be our destiny. In the words of Darth Vader, join us and we can rule the galaxy like…distant cousins? I think that’s what…

$106B SK hynix’s large-scale wafer fab construction is progressing smoothly, but the progress is slow

When an industry experiences a major slowdown, large companies tend to slow down mid- to long-term capacity-related investments. This is exactly what happened with SK Hynix’s Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, a…

ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB842MP-B, M.2 mobile storage

No hot swapping, but no performance penalty ICY Dock’s new ToughArmor MB842MP-B is a PCIe 3/4.0 card that can accommodate a pair of NVMe drives. It utilizes PCIe splits to…

Massive modules for massive servers

Micron announced this week that it has begun sampling 256 GB multiplexer combo (MCR) DIMMs, the company’s highest-capacity memory modules to date. These new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are targeted at next-generation…

Colorful Dylan Hengjin Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE

aRGB fans add interest to your system The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 GRE comes with three transparent fans, two 100mm and one 90mm in the middle. They’re also very…

Apple M series hardware security vulnerability, unfortunately you can’t get a patch

It’s not unpatchable, but the performance impact will be huge Those of you who are the proud owners of an M1, M2 or M3-based Apple device have had it tough.…

Micron has sold out all HBM3E supply in 2024 and most of 2025

Micron has the advantage of being the first company to launch HBM3E memory, and the company revealed that it has successfully sold its entire supply of advanced high-bandwidth memory for…

NVIDIA’s GPU IP integrated into MediaTek’s Dimension Auto SoC

MediaTek launched its new Dimensity automotive cockpit chip series this week, covering the entire market from entry-level to high-end. While automotive chip launches aren’t usually the most interesting things to…

AMD releases FSR 3.1: greatly improving upgrade quality

Last September, AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology package made a number of enhancements to FSR technology on Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 series graphics cards. But there’s no limit…

The number of members of the Ultra Ethernet Alliance increases to 55, and some details of the upcoming HPC backbone technology are revealed.

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) announced this week that the Next Generation Interconnect Alliance has grown to 55 members. As the group works to develop an initial version of the…