Anthropic has announced the general availability of its Claude AI models on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs. Anthropic & NVIDIA Bring Claude AI Models to Microsoft Azure - Running on NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GB300 Platform As Agentic workloads continue to drive the AI segment, NVIDIA is working with leading firms to deliver faster and expanded capabilities to end-users. Today, NVIDIA partnered with Anthropic to deliver Claude models on Microsoft Azure. With the general availability of Anthropic's Claude models, Microsoft Azure provides billing, authentication, and governance controls. The two models that are available today are Claude Opus 4.8 […]

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CXMT has reportedly signed a long-term agreement to supply memory worth almost $3 billion to Tencent. CXMT & Tencent Lock-In $3 Billion Worth of Memory, Signaling That China's Premier Memory Maker Is No Different Than The Rest Memory shortages are sky-high, and they are affecting regional markets, including China, which is going through a revolution in the adoption of AI as it races with the United States to secure the lead in the segment. This has created a boom in the number of AI firms that are showing up, leading to massive demand for compute, memory, and AI-related infrastructure. To […]

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Samsung, SK Hynix & Micron are facing a class action lawsuit in the US as memory prices spiral out of control due to persistent shortages. Consumers File A Class Action Lawsuit Against Samsung, SK Hynix & Micron Alleging That The Memory Trio Restricted DRAM Supply To Inflate Prices Memory prices have reached a historical high due to ongoing shortages as demand continues to outstrip supply. The worst is yet to come, but as the situation continues to evolve, consumers are getting fed up and have filed a private class-action lawsuit in the US against the three big DRAM manufacturers. The […]

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AMD's Zen 6 CPUs are the main focus in the latest AIDA64 8.30 beta release, adding support for various upcoming lineups. AMD Zen 6 CPUs Are Coming Soon, & AIDA64 Is Fully Prepped With Support For Multiple Lineups FinalWire has released the latest version of its popular system monitoring software, AIDA64. The new version (8.30.8332 beta) comes with various updates, with the main release highlights being preliminary and improved support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 CPU families. The full changelog is listed below: There are five AMD Zen 6-specific families listed for the new release. These include Mustang Peak (K1A.18), Olympic […]

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Jim Keller isn't bothered by Cerebras's recent IPO and says that he welcomes it, but Tenstorrent will still beat them on everything. Tenstorrent CEO, Jim Keller, Signals Deal With Intel or Qualcomm While Promising To Beat Cerebras "on everything" Tenstorrent recently introduced its latest BlackHole Galaxy server, a system with which it can disrupt the entire AI segment, with performance levels that crush the competition. We covered the announcement last month when the company demoed its Blackhole server undercutting a NVIDIA GB300 with up to five times better TCO. Keller Accepts The Challenge To Beat NVIDIA, Cerebras & Others At […]

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Memory prices are all set to rise further in the coming quarters of 2026 as persistent shortages continue to grip the market. Memory Prices Will Continue Going Up, Massive 50% Hike In Q3 2026 Followed By Another 40% In Q4 Ongoing memory shortages continue to result in higher prices across the tech industry. With no positive outlook presented by the big three DRAM makers, Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, and China's CXMT not being the savior that the industry hoped for as the "Cheap Chinese Memory" narrative was nothing but a myth, analysts expect the prices to see a sharp increase […]

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards continue to cause trouble, as the latest case shows a 16-pin connector that's blown out. NVIDIA 16-Pin Connector Issues Continue To Mount With The RTX 5090, New Case Shows The Worst Kind of Damage We've Seen Yet Ever since the RTX 40 series, the 16-pin connector has been killing many graphics cards. Most cases are specific to the higher-end GPUs such as the RTX 4090 and the latest RTX 5090, which consume lots of power, mainly between 450-600W. But we have also seen similar cases emerge on AMD's RX 9070 XT variants that feature […]

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NVIDIA has gained the top spot in the datacenter ethernet switching segment for the first time as the market swells to a record $15.4b in Q1 2026. Not GPUs, Not CPUs, This Time NVIDIA Is Topping The Datacenter Ethernet Switching Market With Record Revenue The GPU market, mainly AI accelerators and consumer chips, is dominated by NVIDIA. The green team is also set to post record revenues with its Vera CPUs, making it one of the top suppliers of the current fiscal year. But there's a new market that NVIDIA is topping, & that shows further trust in NVIDIA's ecosystem. […]

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Marvell has set out to utilize every bit of available memory through its Structera CXL, which compresses data to solve capacity & bandwidth challenges. Up To 3.64x Data Compression Is Achieved With Marvell's Structera CXL Accelerators - Boosting Memory Capacity & Bandwidth As AI workloads continue to consume massive amounts of memory, the need for high capacities and bandwidth is ever more important. But at the same time, the AI and tech segment as a whole is facing widespread memory and storage solution shortages. This has prompted tech companies to come up with innovations to mitigate the capacity/bandwidth requirements for […]

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