It's the calm before another storm: GPU prices look set to increase again
… However, according to a breakdown of the total cost of making a graphics card, certain GPUs are about to get a lot more expensive. …
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Team Group warns that increased costs in server memory could eventually impact consumer PCs
… While server product prices have already increased significantly, the general PC market is still relatively low at the moment. "However, demand for AI servers and general-purpose servers is very strong, and prices are actually rising at a rate of about 30% per quarter. …
You can now add the tiny ceramic capacitors in your computer to the list of things that AI has affected
… Thousands of MLCCs are required for just a single AI server board up to ten times more than a standard server , let alone the power supply units to operate a whole rack of them, and just as with memory, the demand for the tiny capacitors is so big that the industry as a whole has been struggling to… …
A Morgan Stanley estimate says a single Nvidia Vera Rubin rack costs over $7.8 million
… Us PC gamers and indeed, electronics enthusiasts everywhere have been putting up with massive price increases for pretty much any component using a memory module, as AI servers hoover them all up and constrain consumer supply. …
As consumer RAM prices soar, Micron unveils an eye-watering 256 GB of DDR5 AI server memory
… Sure, 16 GB of RAM is fine for most things I'd want to dive into, but the AI industry is playing a whole other ball game. Case in point, I am sweating just thinking about Micron's 256 GB DDR5 server module. …
Leaked new MSI Claw images hint at a handheld with some ROG Xbox Ally to it
… First look at the design of the new MSI CLAW 8 EX AI+: Alleged leaked promotional image from r/MSIClaw The Redditor who posted the image says, "The leak seems to originate from press images leaked through a Vietnamese media outlet, and I obtained it from the MSI Claw Discord server." According to m… …
Bytedance is planning to make its own CPUs to better support its AI pursuits
… As the AI industry reaches towards CPU-intensive 'inference', ByteDance's planned chip is intended to be deployed throughout its AI data centres and servers. This, in turn, will support ByteDance's agentic AI products, such as the company's development platform, Coze. …
Older Intel desktop chips could be in short supply as PC builders forced to buy new 18A chips
… It's said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC's fabs will be in short supply. Nikkei Asia says Intel's move is in response to "surging" demand for server CPUs thanks to good old AI. …
The first true Nvidia CPU has been benchmarked, beats everything—but only in Nvidia-sanctioned tests
… Phoronix also claims that Vera easily has the measure of pretty much any Arm CPU for servers, though figures weren't provided. …
Hackers are using fake interviews to sneak Trojan viruses into victims' PCs
… All that data is then placed in a ZIP archive and uploaded to a server. As is so often the case with viruses right now, this one primarily aims to steal cryptocurrency wallets. There is currently both a macOS and Windows version of the software available to download. …