The HP OmniBook Ultra 16 is HP’s 16-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark notebook, a 0.62-inch-thick laptop built around NVIDIA’s N1X superchip and a 3K OLED display. We tested two units side by side: one with the full 20-core N1X, 128GB of LPDDR5X, and…
The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 puts the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X into a convertible: a 16-inch OLED touchscreen on a hinge that folds into tablet and tent modes, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and a 0.69-inch aluminum chassis. Our unit carries…
The Lenovo Pro 9n 15 is Lenovo’s 15.3-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark clamshell for creators, with a 165Hz 2.5K OLED display, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and an aluminum chassis 0.66 inches thick. Our unit carries the entry silicon: the 18-core…
Recent news and rumours have been flooding the tech space about the apparent discontinuation of Nvidia's flagship graphics card. With no new Nvidia 5090 GPU replacement anticipated before at least 2028, this could well be your last…
Being unable to procure EUV litho tools from ASML, China must develop such systems locally, so from time to time we learn about an EUV-related 'breakthrough' in China that will turn into an actual EUV scanner over the following several…
Gun rights activist Cody Wilson, known for creating the world's first 3D-printed firearm over a decade ago, has unveiled a new creation he claims is "the first AI-made gun." Dubbed the WASP, the weapon is 3D-printed and was designed by an…
Nvidia's RTX Spark is now generally available for immediate shipment at multiple retailers. Orders for RTX Spark from brands like Asus, Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, and Dell are live now, including the new Surface Laptop Ultra . Additional…
Leostream announced Leostream Cloud, a cloud-based remote access service, available now, that connects authorized users directly to physical and cloud-hosted workstations and other protected resources. The service combines identity-based…
XCENA showed two AI inference demonstrations built on its MX1 CXL computational memory at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose: a KV cache shared across inference servers through a CXL memory pool, and vector search for…
Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York's 15th congressional district has introduced the Power To The Players Act . This new legislation aims to protect consumers by directing the FTC to establish regulations on game ownership to curb…
At Computex 2026, we saw Gigabyte’s concept X870E Aorus Infinity Next motherboard using that incredible-looking space-age material for VRM cooling, along with something more practical: the X870 Aorus Infinity, a production board, not a…
It’s been a busy year for laptops. Apple’s value-priced MacBook Neo caused a major shakeup in the budget space, forcing Windows device makers to respond with their own premium , affordable offerings . Microsoft nixed its original 16GB…
It's been a few years since we've seen a Surface focused on performance. With Nvidia's entry into mobile SoCs, Microsoft is one of several hardware partners that have developed an ultra-premium PC designed around the RTX Spark . The…
Taiwan is raising at least $4 billion through the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association to build an industrial park in Texas. According to Bloomberg , the site is designed to support the countless smaller…
Epic Games says that it’s working on an update for its anti-cheat solution for Linux that would close the gap in capabilities with the Windows version of Easy Anti-Cheat. The company said that EAC Linux V2 will use existing Linux features…
YouTuber hardware enthusiast and Thermal Grizzly boss der8auer tested a two-year-old liquid metal thermal interface material (TIM) application with an electron microscope in his new video , discovering that it doesn’t dry out. Instead, the…
Are you looking to buy RAM for an upgrade or an existing PC? You've no doubt seen the news about the extortionate price rises on RAM and storage, thanks to the ongoing AI boom ruining the component market for PC enthusiasts; well, today…
After a few revisions of his position on AI-assisted contributions to the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds has posted his own first LLM-assisted patch. The development branch purports to fix an old issue with massive cache contention when many…
Thai authorities have reportedly busted an 'audacious' criminal gang scheme, in which hundreds of meters of fiberoptic cable were found running across the border of Thailand into Myanmar. The cable was found to be serving an online scam…
Over the past week, Ukraine attacked some of Yandex's biggest data centers, disrupting the operations of various Russian national applications and metropolitan digital services. Russia, which has itself targeted Ukrainian data centers in…
As RAM and SSD price hikes and shortages continue to bite PC builders, a pre-built rig remains one of the best ways to avoid some of the very worst in price inflation. Prices are still higher than they were a few months back, but there are…
The list of things a jailbroken PS5 can do gets longer, as Reddit user u/AdIllustrious7246 posted his fork of PS5LM, a llama.cpp port on the PS5 to run AI LLMs locally, with a massive improvement, allowing PS5LM to run natively on the PS5…
SP Industrial introduced six enterprise SSDs, spanning E1.S, U.2, M.2 2280, and 2.5-inch SATA form factors, aimed at AI and data center storage as well as enterprise boot drives. Every model in the lineup pairs 3D eTLC flash with DRAM and…
Veeam made Intelligent ResOps (iResOps) for Microsoft 365 generally available today, the first iResOps product to reach general availability since Veeam introduced Intelligent ResOps in May. It is an add-on for Veeam Data Cloud for…
Formlabs Form Studio 1 is the company’s first consumer-level resin printer, and it’s aimed at those looking to hit print, walk away, and come back to a finished print. The print simplicity and reliability come from years of company…
Original report follows: Reports that Solidigm was considering building a 3D NAND fab in the U.S. came as a surprise last month, as no company has manufactured NAND flash memory in America for years. However, the potential investment now…
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell…
Samsung is showing a CXL memory pool validated with AMD at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose this week, built on its CMM-D CXL memory modules and aimed at agentic AI inference. The companies worked together to validate CXL memory as a way…
Celestica introduced the DS6005 at the OCP Global Summit, a co-packaged optics (CPO) data center switch that puts 102.4Tbps of switching capacity and 64 optically enabled 1.6TbE ports in a 1.5OU, fully liquid-cooled chassis for Open Rack…
Buying a GeForce RTX 5090 , widely regarded as one of the best graphics cards on the market, was already extremely difficult because of price hikes and near-zero availability. Now, it will be impossible to get one. Amid recent rumors that…
Chromebooks have gotten a bad rap. The systems have often been seen as glorified web browsers designed only for schools. But with Googlebooks , Google is making a renewed push to show its laptops are designed to be full-on PCs, running a…
A Chinese rival to the DGX Spark and the Ryzen AI Halo, at least on paper, has emerged with Sipeed’s announcement of the MaixStation. The system, built on Axera’s new AX8860P, is in the same memory class with 128GB of LPDDR5X on a 256-bit…
The rising costs of components have led to a crisis in the consumer PC market. Prices on standard kits of DDR5 are through the roof , NVMe SSD prices are higher than ever , and worst of all, GPUs are also affected by the AI-driven…
The EU is currently in talks with China to lift restrictions the country imposed on Sindlhauser Materials GmbH, a German company in ASML’s supply chain, as the sanctions risk putting the company out of business. In return, the EU would…
Though OLEDs remain a premium gaming monitor category, there is no denying that they make up a large share of new model introductions. Looking over my reviews for the past two years, they represent just over half of the screens that have…
Russian bot traffic showed signs of slowing down after Ukraine bombed some of Yandex’s biggest data centers . Unfortunately, while the attacks have slowed down overall bot traffic from Russia, Cloudflare reports that malicious bots…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark platform with the grand ambition to “reinvent the PC” back at Computex 2026. By pairing the GB10 Superchip with a version of Windows on Arm tailored for the secure and contained execution of…
ASML this week reported record quarterly revenue of $13.06 billion (€11.66 billion) and profitability of nearly $5.79 billion (€5 billion) as demand for advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment continues to accelerate and investments…
Newegg combos have been one of the best ways to score a good deal on RAM during the AIpocalypse, but the deals have been few and far between over the past couple of weeks. Fast forward to yesterday, and they released some fresh combos that…
ASML has said that the unprecedented spending and investment brought about by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is not slowing down at all, as customers are already lining up to place orders for its advanced chipmaking tools for 2029…
Published October 14, 2026. Five PCIe accelerators ranked on one vLLM container and one model set, with the H100 NVL in Also Tested; the H200 NVL carries a power note explained below. Every accelerator ranked on this page has been through…
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built for the servers most enterprises already own. It is a single-slot, passively cooled, 165W board with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set…
Astera Labs has announced Orion, a rack-scale reference design that lets a neocloud or enterprise pick its GPUs and CPUs after the rack is built. Accelerators arrive as PCIe plug-in cards, and a 320-lane PCIe switch fabric scales a pod…
Supermicro announced an expanded line of Open Compute Project Accepted systems, racks, and rear door heat exchangers, all delivered through its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) program and on display at booth B4 at the OCP…
MSI is showing a 48RU NVIDIA MGX rack at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose this week, built from four liquid-cooled CG681-S6093 servers stacked under an NVIDIA Spectrum-4 SN5600 switch and an SN2201 out-of-band switch. Each 6U server takes…
Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative…
IBM and Red Hat said on October 6 that Lightwell, the open-source security program the two companies funded with $5 billion in May, has found, fixed, and backported patches for more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely…
Marvell announced its second-generation Structera X CXL memory expanders at the OCP Global Summit, moving the line to six memory channels, four-host sharing, and a PCIe 6.0 x16 host link. The Structera X 3406 drives 18 DDR4 RDIMM slots for…
IBM announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob on October 1, bringing its agentic software development platform to on-premises, private cloud, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments. Bob runs on infrastructure the customer…
Microsoft unveiled Azure Maia 300 today at the OCP Global Summit, the third generation of its in-house inference accelerator and the first built as a multi-chiplet part. Each accelerator pairs a TSMC N2P compute die with eight HBM4 stacks…
Intel today gave Crescent Island its product name at the OCP Global Summit. The Intel GPU D-series is built on the Xe3P architecture and pairs up to 480GB of LPDDR5X with 1.5TB/s of memory bandwidth and 1.3 petaflops of FP8 compute, all…
Micas Networks announced three 102.4Tb/s Ethernet switches today, all built on Broadcom Tomahawk 6 and all running SONiC: a 4RU air-cooled switch with 128 ports at 800G, a 2RU liquid-cooled switch with 64 ports at 1.6T, and a 1RU…
Airrived has been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Coolest Vendor Innovations in Agentic AI Security report, published October 2. The Dublin, California firm sells what it calls an Agentic OS, a platform for building, orchestrating, and…
Brian sat down with Chris Sullivan, Director of Research and Academic Computing in Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, for a live podcast at Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas. This is an audio-only episode…
NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans today for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), an optical module format built for 400Gb/s-per-lane Ethernet in AI fabrics. The first planned transceivers put 16 full-duplex lanes in a footprint…
AMD introduced Helion today, an open rack reference design for agentic AI that builds on its Helios rack-scale platform. Helion comes in two versions: a CPU-only rack for hyperscalers with up to 32,768 Zen 6 cores from 6th Gen EPYC 9006…
KIOXIA America announced the CM9-DLC today, a set of direct liquid cooling (DLC) models in its CM9 Series of PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSDs. The E3.S drives mount adjacent to cold plates in liquid-cooled servers and also run just fine in…