The Hot Take: Monopolies doing what monopolies do.
Micron is reportedly pulling the plug on its 2 GB (16Gb) GDDR7 memory chips, ending production and sales of both the 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps variants. According to an X post by UNIKOās Hardware, the chips ā some of which shipped on some GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards ā are now designated as āEnd of Lifeā on Micron's site. Tomās Hardware can confirm that the pages for module norms return āNo results found.āMicron just began supplying its 2GB GDDR7 to Nvidia earlier this year, with Samsung and SK Hynix being the main GDDR7 suppliers. As a result,ā¦
The Hot Take: I'm gonna take a guess because we don't own it, we just license it is why.
More games are taking advantage of the free-to-play model, and Microsoft is building systems designed to deliver ads without disrupting the gaming experience. According to Respawn First, the system would first give players some ad-free playtime, which could either be based on time or in-game progress, such as levels and bosses. Once this expires, the company will then open a window and briefly serve āpromoted content.ā However, this system will not just show ads out of the blue. Instead, it will work with the game engine so that they will onlyā¦
The Hot Take: Will have to see how this works and if the fidelity is good.
Ā AMDĀ has shown a ray tracing trick that slashes memory and acceleration-structure costs while keeping hundreds of millions of animated triangles moving in real time.
AMD Fellow Holger Gruen demonstrated the technique using a terrain scene containing about 25,000 independently animated plants. At maximum level of detail, the vegetation represents roughly 2.8 billion triangles.
After level-of-detail selection, the system ray-traces about 500 million animated triangles each frame using primary and shadow rays. AMD says the scene runs at moreā¦
The Hot Take: More and more ASICs coming to market! Nvidia only has so much longer to price gouge with funneling it all to Ai.
South Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions has expanded its neural processing units (NPUs) across four commercial SK Telecom services, with the infrastructure now processing about 14 million real-time requests and more than 4 billion tokens a day.
A report says NVIDIA GPUs contain multiple embedded RISC-V cores that handle work outside shader computation, including functions related to graphics-driver execution.
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| September 21, 2026 | Apple, ARM, Hardware
The Hot Take: Well now....
A supposed Geekbench result for an unreleased M6 Pro chip surfaced this week, but it is likely fake.
Geekbench creator John Poole informed MacRumors that he uncovered "internal inconsistencies" that lead him to believe that the M6 Pro result might not be legitimate. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman previously reported that Apple plans to skip M6 Pro and M6 Max chips entirely.This article, "M6 Pro Chip Result on Geekbench is Likely Fake" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| September 18, 2026 | Hardware, Intel, x86
The Hot Take: Nice to see it but with no memory available for these newer chips above 6000MT/s, no purpose to upgrade to me.
As Intel prepares for the upcoming Nova Lake S desktop processors, motherboard vendors have started preparing their next-generation of motherboards. Several ASRock Z990 Motherboards Appear in NBD Shipping Manifest, Including Creator, Steel Legend, Pro, and Challenger Series As Intel schedules its next-gen Nova Lake processor lineup for late 2026 or early 2027 launch, its partners have started preparing their next-gen motherboard lineups. With the launch of Intel Nova Lake-S desktop processors, you can expect multiple motherboard vendors toā¦
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| September 18, 2026 | ARM, CPU, Hardware
The Hot Take: ARM seems to be coming along as a server chip. This one is on the Top500 list too.
Fujitsu will start selling its Monaka processors, and servers packing them, in November. The Japanese giant started talking about Monaka way back in 2023, when it teased the processor as being derived from the silicon it designed for the Fugaku supercomputer, but adapted for datacenter use. Fugaku was the worldās most powerful supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, and remains in ninth place on the Top 500 list six years after its debut. Who wouldnāt want the tech that powered that behemoth in their datacenter? Yet as The Register reported earlierā¦