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Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The auction to get a piece of High-Performance Computing (HPC) history ended a few days ago, with the final bidder winning the Cheyenne supercomputer for $480,085 – a mere fraction of its $25-35 million development cost. The HPC system was one of the most powerful supercomputers ranked in the Top500...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ransomware criminals use children's phone numbers to coerce payments from parents
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Speaking at a Google Security Threat Intelligence Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco (via The Reg), Charles Carmakal, CTO of Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, said, "We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the phones of children of executives, and start making phone calls to executives,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Visa challenges the legitimacy of stablecoins as a payment technology
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Stablecoins have been hailed as the future of blockchain-based digital money due to their financial stability compared to Bitcoin and other "traditional" cryptocurrencies. However, according to Visa, more than 90 percent of stablecoin transactions aren't actually generated by real users of the technology.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's impossibly thin iPad Pro packs an M4 chip and tandem OLED technology
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The new iPad Pro is offered in two variants, one with an 11-inch display and the other sporting a larger 14-inch panel. Both utilize the brand new M4 chip, although specs vary depending on the chosen storage configuration.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM and pioneer of semiconductor scaling, dies at 91
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Dennard's claims to fame are enormous. He's the mind behind dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the ubiquitous memory that quite literally makes our computers and smartphones function. And that's just the start. This Texas-born extraordinaire left an indelible mark on the trajectory of semiconductor innovation.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PC market recovery leads to increased client CPU shipments, but server sales lag
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
According to a new report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the client PC CPU market reached 62 million units in Q1, 2024, representing a healthy 33 percent growth from the same period last year. However, the shipments are still down 9.4 percent sequentially from Q4, 2023, when the manufacturers shipped 69 million units globally.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Rare Super Famicom prototype zooms to $40k bid at auction
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The Super Famicom (known as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America) was the successor to the original Family Computer. That system debuted in Japan in 1983 before finding its way to American test markets as the original NES in late 1985. Nintendo wasn't in a hurry to release...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Leak casts doubt on Intel's Battlemage, Celestial GPU plans for 2024
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
According to a post by (typically) reliable leaker Golden Pig Upgrade on Weibo, there will be no "DG3" discrete graphics cards based on the Xe2 Battlemage architecture coming next year. For those not in the loop, Battlemage is slated to debut first in Intel's Lunar Lake "Core Ultra" CPUs expected...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
FurMark adds Raspberry Pi support, GPU fan monitoring
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
FurMark's latest release supports Raspberry Pi hardware as well as new GPU fan monitoring capabilities. In addition to bug fixes, it also incorporates the latest versions of GPU Shark2, GPU-Z and GeeXLab.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
DDR5 memory prices could rise 20% due to increasing demand for AI chips
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
According to analysts from market research firm TrendForce, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) prices are expected to rise 5-10 percent in 2025 due to exceptionally high demand from the AI sector, leading to a price increase for other types of DRAM. Unfortunately for PC builders, this will also affect the DDR5 market,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »