This $60 Aliens Switch game becomes unplayable as servers shut down, with no refunds offered
Owners are being offered a discount on the Switch 2 version instead
Thousands of server motherboards are vulnerable to controller flaws that could give attackers hardware-level control
Baseboard management controllers remain riddled with exploitable flaws
AMD's Helios rack is finally shipping, and it's coming for Nvidia's AI dominance
AMD claims 20% better performance than Nvidia's Vera CPU with new Epyc chips
Nvidia is challenging 20 years of datacenter CPU design with new Vera chip
Nvidia joins the battle of making the CPU interesting again
The big picture: Nvidia lifted the embargo on its Vera CPU deep dive this week, and the disclosure amounts to a direct challenge to two decades of x86 datacenter design philosophy. This is the most detail the company has shared on the chip since it first appeared on the Rubin roadmap, and it confirms something I have suspected for a while: Nvidia is not treating the CPU as an attach story anymore. It is treating it as a battleground with a lot of potential dollars at play.
IBM's stock just had its worst day since 1968
IBM warns clients are skipping mainframes to stockpile AI chips and memory instead
AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI
It also provides a glimpse of the architecture that will power future Ryzen chips
First look: AMD will give its first public look at Epyc Venice CPUs this month, showcasing the new Zen 6 architecture at the Advancing AI 2026 summit in San Francisco on July 22. The demonstration will highlight performance for AI workloads, with AMD claiming a major speed increase over current Epyc chips.
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
Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware
Old smartphones are piling up as e-waste, but wait... 25 phones can match a single server CPU
Forward-looking: Researchers at the University of California San Diego are testing whether retired smartphones can still do useful work instead of ending up as electronic waste. Working with Google, the team is trying to turn retired Pixel smartphones into a low-cost data center. The goal is to keep working hardware in use instead of throwing it out after a few upgrade cycles.
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
Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with 288 E-cores on 18A node, teases Diamond Rapids for 2027
Intel just shipped its most ambitious server chip yet, Diamond Rapids promises PCIe 6.0 and twice the memory bandwidth next year
Final Fantasy XI was supposed to decline, instead the 24-year-old MMO is growing again
The MMO's 24th anniversary includes an unlimited free trial and hints of future expansion content
Ripple effect: Final Fantasy XI is having an unlikely moment. The 24-year-old MMO is not just hanging on to a loyal niche, it is sustaining growth. Pushing up against technical limits dating back to the PlayStation 2 era, now Square Enix is looking for ways to open up new parts of its world to a much larger audience.
AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance
Zen 7 is already in the works
Next-gen MRDIMM standard nears completion targeting 12,800 MT/s DDR5 transfer rates for AI and data center workloads
MRDIMM is going to be even faster, although it's not for consumers
Former Google and Meta engineers build memory-first AI server to challenge Nvidia's GPU dominance
Majestic Labs claims 1,000x the memory capacity of GPU systems with its new Prometheus AIU server
AI is now taking over game servers, and Stormgate is the first casualty
AI workloads are competing with games for the same cloud infrastructure
Facepalm: Multiplayer servers for the real-time strategy game Stormgate will go offline at the end of the month after the infrastructure provider that hosts them was acquired by an AI company and began winding down its gaming services. The shutdown shows how AI infrastructure expansion is now affecting not just PC hardware supply, but also the backend services that many modern games rely on.
Memory spiked first, CPUs followed, now PCBs could be the next victim of the AI boom
In a nutshell: The ongoing AI boom has already inflated the cost of memory, storage, and processors, with effects spilling over to electronics incorporating those components. The impact of AI data center expansion is not expected to subside anytime soon, and to make matters worse, the conflict between the US and Iran threatens to worsen supply chain disruptions while creating new ones.
It's not just memory anymore: AI data centers are taking all the CPUs, too
Expect prices to increase further this year
Ripple effect: Ongoing AI datacenter construction has created shortages of DRAM and NAND that manufacturers say will impact prices for years, but memory isn't the only component that datacenters require. Recent reports indicate that manufacturers are also facing shortages of CPUs that might further increase prices.
MSI plans to raise prices by up to 30% amid memory crunch
The company is hoping to profit on premium products and AI data centers
Steam delivered 100 exabytes of data last year, about 274 petabytes per day
The platform's data traffic has grown roughly 30% each year since 2020
Diamond-cooled AMD Instinct MI350X servers get major $300 million customer
Synthetic diamond heat spreaders aim to boost performance per watt
Only one of these tech "sports" is real. Can you guess which?
Have you heard of the Quantum Cable Untangling Contest, or the VR Headset Balance Race? How about the World Server Throwing Championship?
Apple plans to mass-produce its first AI server chips in 2026
Cupertino is bringing its silicon playbook to the cloud
Critical vulnerability in React JS framework has a near 100% chance to be exploited
A "perfect ten" security flaw that requires immediate patching on web servers
Intel Granite Rapids-WS coming for Threadripper 9000WX with up to 86 cores and 336 MB L3 cache
Will it be enough to regain the lead in the high-end desktop market?
HighPoint's Rocket 7638D is the first PCIe switch to support Nvidia's GPUDirect storage technology
The missing link between AI models and ultra-fast, GPU-accelerated inferencing workloads