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Nvidia Profile Inspector 3.0 modernizes the popular driver profile editor

Nvidia Profile Inspector lets you view and edit hidden driver profiles and settings. Version 3.0 delivers its biggest update in years with a redesigned interface, faster profile browsing, and support for newer features including DLSS overrides and RTX Dynamic Vibrance.

By Ivan Franco, July 6, 2026, 1:18 PM

Hardware Gaming

Nvidia's RTX 3060 returns to store shelves at its original 2021 price

Facepalm: A "new" Nvidia graphics card has hit US and European retail stores. But it's not the RTX 5000 Super series, unfortunately: it's the five-year-old RTX 3060, and it carries the same price it did in 2021. The Ampere-era GPU has been slowly making its return since the start of 2026, a response to the memory crisis that has turned the industry into a nightmarish hellscape.

Full story By Rob Thubron, July 6, 2026, 7:47 AM 10 comments

Tech Culture Industry

Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction

The auction estimate puts Huang's jacket in the same ballpark as some Nvidia AI hardware

In brief: These days Jensen Huang is better known for turning Nvidia from a beloved gaming company into a somewhat disliked AI supercorporation. But he used to get a lot of attention for his leather jacket. Now, one of those famed items of clothing is going up for auction, and it's expected to raise $40,000 to $60,000 – for charity, of course.

Full story By Rob Thubron, July 3, 2026, 11:37 AM 11 comments

Hardware Industry

Singapore charges two people over a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China through a $42 million property deal

Singapore accounts for 28% of Nvidia's revenue but only 1% of its GPU shipments

By Skye Jacobs, July 3, 2026, 6:18 AM

Hardware AI

OpenAI debuts Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip to cut ChatGPT costs and reduce Nvidia dependency

The Broadcom-built ASIC is optimized for AI inference

By Skye Jacobs, June 25, 2026, 8:06 AM 9 comments

Industry Hardware

Nvidia's banned AI servers are selling for $1.1 million on China's black market

Washington's AI chip crackdown is squeezing supply, but demand for Nvidia hardware remains intense

By Rob Thubron, June 25, 2026, 6:06 AM

Does the Nvidia App Hurt Performance? We Benchmarked It.

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, June 25, 2026, 5:06 AM TechSpot Gaming

Does the Nvidia App really hurt gaming performance? We benchmarked its background app, overlay, recording, and filters to see what affects frame rates and whether it is worth keeping installed.

Hardware AI

Google is spending billions to turn its TPU chips into a real challenger to Nvidia

Google backs $3.2 billion data center deal to get its chips into Anthropic's hands, mirroring Nvidia's playbook

By Skye Jacobs, June 22, 2026, 6:15 AM

Hardware Industry

Samsung's foundry is booming as TSMC struggles with demand – bags Nvidia, Tesla, and Qualcomm as new clients

Google and AMD could also get their next-generation chips manufactured by Samsung

By Kishalaya Kundu, June 17, 2026, 1:23 PM

Hardware Tech Culture

Intel CPUs with Nvidia RTX integrated graphics are targeting an early 2028 release

Codenamed Serpent Lake, the chip would pair Intel Titan Lake CPUs with Nvidia RTX iGPUs to take on AMD's Strix Halo

By Daniel Sims, June 15, 2026, 6:55 PM 12 comments

Hardware

AMD claims next-gen Zen 6 server CPU will deliver 330% of Nvidia Vera's performance per rack

AMD counters Nvidia-controlled benchmark with internal performance calculations

By Daniel Sims, June 10, 2026, 11:08 PM

Hardware Industry

Intel stock jumps after report claims Google ordered 3 million AI chips

Google, Nvidia and Tesla are all exploring or committing to Intel

By Skye Jacobs, June 9, 2026, 8:08 AM

Hardware AI

AMD welcomes Nvidia to the local AI PC race, points to Gorgon Halo's 192GB memory advantage

AMD says the CUDA advantage is shrinking

By Skye Jacobs, June 7, 2026, 9:12 AM 15 comments

Hardware Gaming

Nvidia RTX 5000 Super series tipped for 2026 launch despite memory crunch

Nvidia's Super refresh may not be dead after all

By Rob Thubron, June 5, 2026, 5:15 AM 19 comments

Hardware Software

AMD CPUs hit another Steam survey record as Intel gap shrinks to all-time low

Team Red closes the Steam CPU gap again while Nvidia's RTX 3060 remains the most-used GPU

By Rob Thubron, June 4, 2026, 6:04 AM 9 comments

Hardware AI

Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs 128GB unified memory and Nvidia's new Arm chip for local AI

Microsoft's new dev box runs 120-billion-parameter AI models locally

By Skye Jacobs, June 3, 2026, 10:50 AM 12 comments

Hardware Gaming

Nvidia brings back the RTX 3060 12GB for $350 as GPU market gets weird again

Colorful seems to be shipping a refreshed RTX 3060 12GB in China as Nvidia turns back to older hardware

By Rob Thubron, June 2, 2026, 9:13 AM 9 comments

Hardware Industry

China's military obtained Nvidia chips despite US export controls, report claims

Are Washington's chip controls really stopping advanced hardware from reaching China?

By Rob Thubron, June 2, 2026, 8:19 AM

Software Gaming

DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction arrives this August to make ray tracing look cleaner and more stable

The update launches with support for 27 games and promises better image quality without a major performance penalty

By Rob Thubron, June 1, 2026, 6:51 AM

Hardware Industry

Nvidia RTX Spark CPU is now official: "superchip" will power Windows laptops and desktops

Nvidia wants to make your Windows PC an agentic and creator powerhouse

Why it matters: Nvidia just announced what it calls the most efficient PC chip ever built. RTX Spark is a Grace Blackwell system on a chip, 70 billion transistors on TSMC 3nm, with a Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Arm CPU built with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory. It is purpose-built for agents, and it runs full RTX gaming and creation on the same thin-and-light laptop. It is a genuinely impressive piece of silicon.

Full story By Ryan Shrout, June 1, 2026, 12:45 AM 46 comments

Hardware

Nvidia's first consumer CPU in over a decade is coming – and it has RTX cores built in

Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm tease "new era of PC" at Computex

By Daniel Sims, May 31, 2026, 5:35 AM 33 comments

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Apple's on-device AI dream is running into the hard limits of what a phone can do

A hybrid Siri will route more complex requests to Google's servers – Apple hopes you won't notice

By Skye Jacobs, May 29, 2026, 6:15 AM

The Nvidia App Settings You Should Actually Be Using

FEATURE By Tim Schiesser, May 28, 2026, 5:20 AM TechSpot Software

The Nvidia App has evolved far beyond basic driver updates. From monitor tweaks, to DLSS overrides and recording tools, these are the settings PC gamers should actually be using.

Hardware Industry

Taiwan just busted an alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling ring using Japan as a cover

Taiwan investigators are examining whether AI servers were quietly rerouted to China through a key US ally

By Skye Jacobs, May 27, 2026, 2:06 PM

Hardware Industry

Nvidia Vera CPU impresses in early Nvidia-sanctioned benchmarks

Controlled tests show strong results against Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc

By Daniel Sims, May 26, 2026, 6:49 PM 8 comments