Hardware

The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come out of left field, but the technology upon which they are built is a known commodity: the Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer architecture, which has expanded into multiple chips.  Back at CES, NVIDIA announced Project DIGITS, its

Following the launch of Blackwell-based GPUs in the consumer space for gaming, NVIDIA today expanded the reach of its latest-generation GPU architecture into various professional solutions for workstations, servers, and laptops, all of which fall under the RTX Pro Blackwell umbrella. In total, we’re looking at a dozen new SKUs to turbocharge AI workloads, 3D designs, complex simulations, and other tasks. “Software developers, data scientists, artists, designers and engineers need powerful AI and graphics performance

NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 is an absolutely monstrous processor with up to 10 petaflops of dense FP4 tensor compute and 192GB of lightning-fast HBM3e memory delivering 8 TB/second of bandwidth per GPU. That number, though, that 192GB, is still limiting for hyperscalers building the latest, greatest AI models. For those companies that need ever greater memory specs, NVIDIA has just revealed the Blackwell Ultra GB300 GPU. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced Blackwell Ultra today on stage

Just like Microsoft recently did with Skype and its Remote Windows app, Google has announced that it will replace its Google Assistant feature, but with Gemini. Google described the change as a “new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.” Since its launch in 2016, Google Assistant has played a vital role in helping users interact with their devices more naturally. Google has now emphasized that generative AI has presented a more helpful

Half-Life, one of the best first person shooters of all time, got its flowers with the amazing Black Mesa remake made by fans with Valve’s blessing. Half-Life 2 is now getting the same treatment, once again led by fans, with Half-Life 2 RTX. While the team initially debuted its effort towards the end of last year, it still needed more time in the oven. However, NVIDIA decided the time was right to give gamers a

Intel has achieved a significant early milestone in its Arizona semiconductor fabrication plant, with the first wafers successfully processed on its advanced 18A process node. This achievement, announced at the same time as its March 13th conference, signals positive momentum for the company’s manufacturing roadmap. The news first surfaced publicly via LinkedIn, where Pankaj Marria, an Engineering Manager at Intel and member of an internal team apparently known as the ‘Eagle Team,’ celebrated the achievement.

It’s been a month since we highlighted a bunch of deals on Google’s Pixel 9 family, including what qualified (at the time) as the lowest price ever for the Pixel 9 Pro. Well, it’s even cheaper now with a fresh batch of discounts, but that’s not the only Pixel 9 model to hit a new low. Same goes for the Pixel 9 Pro XL, which we included in our round of the top five smartphones

A dependable source has leaked photos of the entire iPhone 17 lineup in their metal mold form. Used for accessory and case manufacturers, these metal molds show off Apple’s answer to bringing some pizzazz into its phone designs by incorporating distinctively different camera bumps plus the new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air model. Sources also suggests that if the Air becomes enough of a success, Cupertino may bring a skinny port-less iPhone in the near future.

A leaker on X (formerly Twitter) claims Valve is getting release a version of SteamOS for desktop systems, which if true would effectively extend the Linux-based platform’s reach beyond the realm of gaming handhelds. The rumor surfaced just before Valve released its SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview build with some key tweaks to the operating system’s Desktop mode. It’s possible the leaker, @SadlyItsBradley, is conflating the two, though it doesn’t sound like it. In the same X

The last few weeks for AMD have been pretty remarkable. The chipmaker is firing on all cylinders: the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D have arrived to universal praise, the Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” processors finally launched to wide acclaim, and the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards brought the RDNA 4 architecture and a much-needed injection of sane pricing to a downright brutal graphics market. AMD’s David McAfee agrees, stating outright that it has