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Chinese GPU manufacturer Zephyr confirms dead RDNA 2 GPU chips due to cracking, bulging, or shorting — Company says it has replaced several dead Navi 21 cores under warranty (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get Navi 21 → | tags: brand, cores, dead

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Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Aaron Klotz | get Nvidia RTX 5080 → | tags: gpus, hardware, likely

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Arch Linux kills off Nvidia Pascal GPU support — users still running GTX 10-series graphics cards will have to manually install older drivers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Aaron Klotz | get GTX 10-series → | tags: arch, gpus, linux

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Former Chinese gaming company with China govt ties accused of smuggling banned AI GPUs — Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asia customer exposes the limits of U.S. AI export controls (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: china, controls, export

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Hassam Nasir | get GPU → | tags: gpus, moore, moore threads

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You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-20 | by Jowi Morales | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 → | tags: gpus, hardware, older

128.

Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | get Nvidia HGX → | tags: fabric, gpus, host

129.

Pixel 10 finally gets its long-promised GPU driver upgrade, but the real test starts now (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-18 | get GPU → | tags: android, driver, google

130.

Arctic launches MX-7, its best-performing thermal paste to date (techspot.com)

2025-12-16 | get Thermal paste → | tags: applications, applications including, arctic

131.

Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-15 | by Ram Iyer | get Gaming GPU → | tags: china, chinese, chips

132.

Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-10 | by Sunny Grimm | get DeepLearning → | tags: china, deepseek, gpus

133.

AMD’s next-gen “FSR Redstone” brings big gains, as long as you’re using a new GPU (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-10 | get GPU → | tags: gpus, image, nvidia

134.

How Google’s TPUs are reshaping the economics of large-scale AI (venturebeat.com)

2025-12-10 | get Tensor Processing Units → | tags: cloud, google, gpus

135.

Texas authorities have made multiple arrests in an NVIDIA GPU smuggling operation (engadget.com)

2025-12-09 | get NVIDIA GPU → | tags: advertisement, china, chips

136.

Intel Arc B370 Xe3 iGPU appears on Furmark 2 — Panther Lake graphics fall 14% behind last-gen Xe2 Arc 140V (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-08 | by Aaron Klotz | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: graphics, igpu, intel

137.

Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-06 | get Kernel Float → | tags: float, float unlocking, gpu programming

138.

Nvidia reinstates 32-bit PhysX support for RTX 50 series as part of its latest Game Ready driver rollout — 9 titles included in initial release (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-04 | by Kunal Khullar | get PhysX → | tags: arkham, gpus, latest

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First ARM-supported 3D driver for discrete gaming GPUs emerges from China — Lisuan 7G106 runs 3DMark on a Windows 11 ARM machine (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-04 | by Aaron Klotz | get Lisuan 7G106 → | tags: discrete, driver, gpus

140.

Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series GPU driver restores PhysX support for popular games (theverge.com)

2025-12-04 | by Tom Warren | get PhysX → | tags: games, gpus, nvidia

141.

Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-02 | get Graphics Card → | tags: gpus, machine, radeon

142.

I Know We're in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-29 | by Pete Warden | get AI Bubble → | tags: better, dollars, gpus

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TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | get Tensor Processing Units → | tags: cloud, google, gpus

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Chinese startup founded by Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU chip for AI — custom ASIC reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020, 42% more efficient (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-27 | by Jon Martindale | get Tensor Processing Unit → | tags: chip, google, gpus

145.

AMD could increase graphics card prices by 10% due to memory shortage crisis (techspot.com)

2025-11-24 | get Graphics Card → | tags: affects, affects gpu, ai demand

146.

Nvidia sales are 'off the charts,' but Google, Amazon and others now make their own custom AI chips (cnbc.com)

2025-11-21 | by Katie Tarasov | get Custom AI Chips → | tags: chips, custom, google

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Nvidia is king in AI chips, but Google and Amazon want to catch up by making their own (cnbc.com)

2025-11-21 | by Katie Tarasov | get AI Chips → | tags: chips, custom, google

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AMD's Linux kernel patches suggest enablement of next-gen Instinct MI400-series AI GPU accelerators (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-21 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: generation, gpus, instinct

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Four Americans charged with smuggling Nvidia GPUs and HPE supercomputers to China face up to 200 years in prison —$3.89 million worth of gear smuggled in operation (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-21 | by Anton Shilov | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: china, export, gpus

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Feds charge four with illegally smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China (theverge.com)

2025-11-20 | by Jay Peters | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: china, export, gpus