According to industry reports, prices for rare metal gallium (Ga) have increased tenfold in less than a month. The price increase follows a supply decrease following the August 1st-imposed export restrictions by China.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-export-restrictions-lead-to-exploding-rare-metal-prices
Redditor repurposed his Ryzen 5 4600G into a 16GB VRAM GPU to run Stable Diffusion.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dollar95-amd-cpu-becomes-16gb-gpu-to-run-ai-software
Scientists with the University of California, berkeley have managed to reconstruct a three-minute clip from Pink Floy'd "Another Brick in the Wall" by translating the brain signals from patients listening to it. But questions must be asked.
Supermicro's fourth annual Open Storage Summit brings together leading storage experts from across the industry to discuss the latest in storage technologies and how they will solve tomorrow's data challenges from the data center right out to the intelligent edge.
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/all-flash-innovation-for-next-generation-storage-solution
Igor highlighted a quality control issue with AMD's new Radeon Pro W7600 single-slot graphics card, which can cause the screen to blackout under heavy use.
Huawei, JCET, Verisilicon, NationalChip, and Tongfu can support Chinese chiplet efforts.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-ramps-multi-chiplet-efforts-with-industry-heavyweights
TSMC reportedly wants to launch 2nm production at two fabs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-forms-task-force-to-accelerate-2nm-chip-production
A faulty SSD’s data was accessible again when G-glamped at a certain spot. Now it is fully repaired thanks to hot air rework.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/enthusiast-salvages-faulty-ssd-data-using-woodworking-tools
Intel's latest Arc drivers have a new code path that can boost performance in DirectX 11 games by 19% on average. It's working to validate more titles, and also has a new PresentMon GUI and performance metrics that are now available.
The Addlink S91 is another good option for embedded devices. It performs well enough and is efficient, all while letting you add up to 2TB of internal storage to your Steam Deck or ROG Ally.