NVIDIA was on the eve of unleashing its next-generation GB200 Superchip inside of new AI servers, until rumors of a "flooding" occurred.

UDN is reporting that the key water-cooling components from "major international manufacturers have been shipped out" causing water leakage inside of the GB200 AI server cabinet. The outlet reports that Taiwanese manufacturers like Shuanghong and Qihong are expected to come on-board for emergency rescue and receive transfer orders.

NVIDIA's issues with its new GB200-powered AI server cabinets seems to be coming from outsourcing some of the water cooling components, including the branch pipe, quick connector, and hose. If an issue happens through one of these components, as they're all related to the movement of coolant, a leakage can happen. That's not good for a top-of-the-line $3 million GB200 NVL72 server cabinet.

The Chairman of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and SK Group, Chey Tae-won had some choice words to say at the recent 47th KCCI Jeju forum.

The SK Group chairman compared the AI boom to the gold rush, adding: "When there was no more gold, the sellers became unable to sell pickaxes. Without making money, the AI boom could vanish, just as the gold rush disappeared".

Chey expects that NVIDIA will continue to be one of the biggest companies by market capitalization over the next three years. The AI boom recently led NVIDIA to a record $3.3 trillion market cap.

Tenstorrent has just launched its new Wormhole high-performance AI chip featuring the RISC-V architecture, with chip legend Jim Keller's fingerprints all over the Wormhole AI chip.

The new Tenstorrent Wormhole AI chip will be a cost-effective and scalable solution for AI customers. The company is also unveiling AI workstation solutions dedicated to its new Wormhole platform, meaning it offers consumers a full AI package.

Tenstorrent's new Wormhole AI chips will be offered in PCIe cards in two different configurations: the Wormhole n150 and Wormhole n300. The new Wormhole n150 features a single processor with 72 Tensix cores, with the company saying each Tensix core features 5 RISV-C baby cores, allowing scalability with multi-chip development much more efficiently.

Intel has very quietly just introduced new LGA1700 socket processors in its growing 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" range of CPUs, featuring only Performance Cores (P-Cores) without Efficient Cores (E-Cores).

The company says its new 14th Gen Core CPUs are for embedded systems and not intended for consumer use, but there's no reason at all that gamers couldn't buy one of these new CPUs. The new flagship Core i9-14901KE processors feature 8 P-Cores and no E-Cores at all, which is the trend with all of these new CPUs... they only feature P-Cores with no E-Cores at all.

Intel's new Core i9-14901KE processor features a higher base clock than the consumer CPU by over 600MHz, up to 3.8GHz, but a lower boost clock of 5.8GHz versus 6.0GHz. Intel has no F-variants of its new 14th Gen Core CPUs, so there are no integrated graphics, while the T-models of these new CPUs are 45W variants versus the 35W spec found in the consumer models.

AMD's next-generation RDNA 4 GPU architecture is still in the ovens, but we're hearing rumors of RDNA 4's new and enhanced Ray Tracing engine for Radeon RX 8000 series graphics cards, and Sony's beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro console.

In a new post on X, leaker "Kepler" said that some of the new RT features coming with RDNA 4 will "most if not all" be found inside of the PS5 Pro console, not just RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs. Kepler shared some details of the ray tracing enhancements expected with RDNA 4:

AMD will not be beating NVIDIA's next-gen Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs with the likes of the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 to be next-gen performance powerhouses. AMD will compete under those GPU power levels with its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs, with enhanced ray tracing (RT) performance and power efficiency being the key features included with RDNA 4.

AMD will launch its next-gen Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs on July 31, with ASUS and its beefed-up X870E motherboards ready with some exclusive BIOS support for the Zen 5 chips.

A member of the HardwareLuxx forums who created the popular thread featuring AGESA updates, has provided an overview of what ASUS is cooking for its new ROG STRIX X870E-E Gaming motherboard, with features not yet supported by ASUS on its motherboards. This includes:

ASUS will allow increases to fan point adjustments to 8, compared to 4 on the previous-gen motherboard in the ROG STRIX X670E-E mobo. ASUS will also include new DDR5 memory OC and Curve Shaper support, which will also be coming to the 600-series motherboards.

AMD is just days away from unleashing its next-generation Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs, with some leaked pricing on the family of Zen 5 processors leaked: flagship Ryzen 9 9950X costs $499.

The new pricing information on the new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs is coming from AnandTech forum member "Hail the Brain Slug" which knows someone who works at BestBuy. The purported BestBuy employee leaked that the Ryzen 9000 series CPUs are currently in stock, and ready for the huge retail launch on July 31.

The BestBuy staffer said there are plenty of Ryzen 9 990X and Ryzen 7 9700X processors, while there's reportedly not many (at least according to this particular BestBuy staffer) of the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors. Here's the pricing breakdown of the Ryzen 9000 series CPUs:

ASUS has launched its fleet of AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APU-powered laptops, introducing the VivoBook Pro 16, ZenBook 16 Air, ProArt 13, and ProArt 16 laptops.

The company is rolling out new designs and powerful specs inside of its new laptops, which are aimed at virtually everyone: consumers, office laptops, gaming laptops, and more... all aimed at the growing "AI PC" family of laptops on the market this year.

ASUS has its new ZenBook 16 Air with a 16-inch 2.8K resolution and smooth 120Hz refresh rate on a gorgeous OLED panel, with a 1.1cm thin design and weighing just 1.49kg. ASUS has designed a new body material called Ceraluminum, which uses an aluminum shell with a ceramic compound for a beautiful new look.

Blizzard has just announced the 41st hero in Overwatch 2, a new "Space Ranger" that was teased back at BlizzCon 2023, with the new support hero called Juno. Check Juno out below:

Juno is a new space cadet support character that enters Overwatch 2 in full at the drop of Season 12 on August 12, with a few hero trials over the weekend. Juno has a burst-fire primary weapon called the Mediblaster, which heals teammates and damages enemies, with a secondary Pulsar Torpedoes that lock onto allies and enemies, healing your teammates and damaging your enemies. Very cool.

The passive ability with Juno comes in the form of her Martial Overboots, which allow the space cadet to double jump and then hover in the air like she's kind of (but not fully) flying. The passive ability gels beautifully with Glide Boost, an ability that lets Juno glide above and around the battle horizontally.

On Friday, independent cybersecurity company CrowdStrike rolled out a driver update that knocked millions of Windows PCs offline, resulting in airlines, telecommunications providers, banks, emergency services, and many other facets of society being disrupted.

The outage was truly global, affecting multiple countries and critical infrastructure in various regions. CrowdStrike promptly responded with a workaround for the faulty driver that caused Windows machines to enter infinite boot loops with dreaded blue screens of death (BSOD). Unfortunately, the workaround requires physical intervention with the machine, as a user must boot into Safe Mode or Windows Recovery to delete the faulty driver.

For companies that rely heavily on Windows machines for day-to-day operations, this manual remedy will prove extremely time-consuming. With so many Windows machines affected by the outage, it begs the question of exactly how many Microsoft-powered devices were affected. Microsoft recently took to its blog to reveal the first internally estimated number. Redmond said it estimates 1% of its total Windows machines were affected by the CrowdStrike update, or approximately 8.5 million machines.

It was only a few days ago that Microsoft's new Game Pass pricing was brought up by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a recent filing

The FTC filed a document with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that claims Microsoft's decision to increase the price of Game Pass was a strategy that demonstrated it "exercising market power" after its acquisition of Activision-Blizzard. The FTC document went as far as to claim Microsoft's Game Pass price increase is evidence of "product degradation," which is tied to the company's "reduced investments in output and product quality via employee layoffs."

Both of these points represent Microsoft exerting its power on the market, according to the FTC document. Now, Microsoft has responded to the FTC filing, saying, "It is wrong to call this a 'degraded' version of the discontinued Game Pass for Console offering." The Redmond company cited the lack of multiplayer functionality with the discontinued Game Pass tier, and that gamers wanting multiplayer access would need to spend an additional $9.99, making the total cost $20.98.

The world experienced one of, if not the biggest IT outage in history over the weekend, as independent cybersecurity company CrowdStrike rolled out a faulty driver update that caused millions of Windows PCs to be hit with the dreaded blue screen of death.

The IT outage affected numerous facets of society, including emergency services, hospitals, airlines, supermarkets, payment systems, telecommunications companies, stock exchanges, and more. The problem was traced back to a faulty driver that was pushed out by CrowdStrike, and since the issue resulted in affected PCs entering boot loops the fix has to be performed manually, which poses a real issue to businesses and companies that heavily rely on multiple Windows PCs.

Microsoft has now taken to its blog to recognize the outage, writing that while it wasn't the outage isn't the company's fault, it's working with CrowdStrike to remedy the situation for affected customers.

It was six years ago when Bethesda published the official teaser trailer for the next installment in The Elder Scrolls franchise, and since then, hardly anything has been revealed for the highly anticipated release of The Elder Scrolls IV.

The hint for The Elder Scrolls IV's setting was discovered on Reddit and cites a Pinterest account owned by a Bethesda Game Studios employee. The account contained many pins of concept art that appear to be inspiration for The Elder Scrolls IV. Judging from the saved pins, it appears the next Elder Scrolls game will be set in the west of Tamriel in the province known as Hammerfell.

This region of Tamriel contains vast jungles, wooded mountain ranges, subtropical grasslands, swamps, and deserts. Reports indicate that past rumors suggested Hammerfell as one of the possible locations for the game, and this recent discovery of the Bethesda employee-owned Pinterest account has only reignited those theories.

The CrowdStrike update that knocked millions of Windows PCs into boot loop cycles and blue screen of death error (BSOD) messages is truly a historic time for IT chaos, and with chaos comes people wanting to take advantage of the vulnerable.

An update containing a faulty driver was mistakenly verified and added to CrowdStrike's production line, which was then pushed out to millions of Windows computers around the globe. The millions of Windows PCs stuck blue screening have disrupted an exponential list of industries and critical infrastructure. For example, airlines were grounded, hospitals were knocked offline, and payment systems have fallen. The outage has disrupted banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, and more.

Unfortunately, the fix for this problem must be done manually. A user must reboot the affected machine as many as fifteen times to enter Windows Recovery or boot to Safe Mode. From there, the user must locate a file and delete the broken driver. Then, simply reboot. With millions of PCs affected around the world and people searching for a workaround to fix their affected system or systems, users must be careful not to fall for scams claiming to have solutions.

The world's largest IT outage is currently being felt across the globe as millions of Windows PCs are stuck with the dreaded blue screen of death.

The IT outage has brought down critical infrastructure across the planet. An update issued by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity software company that provides Microsoft with security solutions for Windows, contained a faulty driver that caused all affected systems to boot Windows incorrectly, resulting in the now rampant blue screen of death (BSOD).

Millions of systems were disrupted, including banks, airlines, emergency services, supermarkets, payment systems, telecommunications, businesses, hospitals, stock exchanges, and more. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella took to X to comment on the recent outage, saying Microsoft is aware of this issue that is occurring globally and is working with CrowdStrike to provide "customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online."

The world's most significant IT outage is happening right now, and numerous countries and critical infrastructures are still recovering from or suffering from the dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

Millions of Windows PCs across the planet are being hit with the BSOD, with the affected systems disrupting banks, airlines, emergency services, supermarkets, payment systems, telecommunications, businesses, hospitals, stock exchanges, and more. The problem was traced back to CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity software company that issues solutions to Microsoft for its Windows operating system. CrowdStrike issued an update on Friday to its security platform, Falcon, which caused the "Falcon Sensor" component critically failing.

More specifically, a faulty driver update identified as "C-00000291.sys" is the culprit behind the outage. This driver addressed invalid memory space, causing Windows to boot incorrectly and, ultimately, the BSOD. Luckily, there is already a fix for the issue, but it appears it will have to be done manually, as it involves booting the affected PC in Windows Safe Mode or Windows Recovery.

The world is still recovering from one of history's most disruptive IT outages. Millions of critical Windows-based systems across the globe are experiencing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The system crashes affect banks, airlines, emergency services, supermarkets, and businesses, putting computers into an endless boot loop with no immediate recovery means.

The issue was quickly traced to CrowdStrike, which creates security software. An update to its popular security platform, Falcon, broke, leading to one of history's most extensive IT failures. The 'Falcon Sensor' component critically failed, resulting in no access to Windows. Critical systems used for point of sale, emergency services like 911, and airlines managing flights were rendered useless.

With the affected systems being Windows PCs, many have pointed fingers at Microsoft. However, the issue looks specific to CrowdStrike software and its update to 'Falcon Sensor.' So then, how did this crash Windows when other apps that fail Crash to Desktop (CTD)? And how can you fix the CrowdStrike BSOD issue? Let's dig in.

This week on the TT Show, Jak and Kosta discuss the ongoing saga with Intel's 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, specifically the flagship 13900K and 14900K models that have been plagued with instability issues for several months. Over the past week, things have fired up with reports of game developers switching servers over to AMD and data showing that these Intel CPUs are failing at an alarming rate.

Speaking of AMD, the company announced its new game-specific tech that can reduce install sizes by up to 70% - and yeah, Jak and Kosta cannot wait for this to become available. For reference, that would bring Call of Duty's install size down from 150 GB to under 50 GB.

In the world of AI, it's come to light that companies like Apple and NVIDIA have been using YouTube videos from popular channels and creators for AI training, which goes against Google's terms of service. Also, Microsoft has confirmed that it has created an AI voice generator that sounds indistinguishable from the real thing - and for that reason, it won't be released.

AMD's latest graphics driver brings support for Anti-Lag 2 to a second game - namely Dota 2.

The tech first arrived in Counter Strike 2, and it reduces input lag (like the rival NVIDIA Reflex feature), so clearly enough it's an important addition for competitive online games - and with Adrenalin version 24.7.1 it's available for Dota 2 addicts, too.

Anti-Lag 2 offers the option to turn on an overlay on-screen that shows the latency of the game you're playing (hit ALT+SHIFT+L), then you can hold right CTRL down to see the difference between running the game with the tech on, or off. Pretty nifty, and hopefully it'll make a sizeable difference to Dota 2 gamers.

Xbox Game Pass is expected to make up to $5.5 billion in revenue next year, analyst firm Ampere Analysis predicts.

Microsoft's recent Game Pass price hike will lead to a spike in earnings, at least that's what analysts are predicting. Ampere Analysis head of research Piers Harding-Rolls gave an interesting prediction regarding Game Pass revenue forecasts, with the subscription service expected to achieve a whopping $5.5 billion in annual earnings in 2025.

The reason? Ultimate's price increase is undoubtedly a catalyst for this growth, however it's the perceived value fracturing of the subscription tiers--the entire removal of the Console tier and its "degraded" Standard tier replacement--that will ultimately (pun intended) urge users towards the more expensive $19.99/month tier. Note that this estimate reflects the totality of Xbox Game Pass, including options on console and PC, as well as revenues earned via cloud gaming access.