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AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
AMD will announce the highly anticipated Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards on February 28, seven days from now, at 8 AM ET via its YouTube channel.
PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 'helper' to enable full performance
As Nvidia has dropped support for PhysX in legacy games on its RTX 50 GPUs, a Redditor has bought a separate RTX 3050 as a dedicated PhysX card.
Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected
Used Seagate's IronWolf Pro HDDs are also sold as new.
Ionic Wind explores ionized air for cooling servers, claims a 60% cost reduction
Ionic Wind Technologies is experimenting with solid-state ionized air cooling that can simplify the cooling of data centers.
Nvidia explains the missing ROPs
Nvidia says that a few RTX 5090 / 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs shipped with defective ROPs, telling affected users to contact the manufacturer for a replacement.
Chinese chipmaker unveils Optane-like storage class memory
Numemory has 64Gb and 128Gb storage class memory devices with industry-standard NAND interface that could be used for SSDs, expensive SSDs.
Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard
A Redditor has shared a story claiming that the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 'caught on fire' with images of the damage.
ASE developing square packaging substrate tech to replace round wafers
ASE to explore panel level packaging ahead of possible switching to glass substrates.
