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Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250 — 55% increase over MSRP in a year's time

Nvidia now sells the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards for $13,250, while partner offerings start at $11,359.99.

Intel reportedly preparing surprise return to DDR4 systems with 'Raptor Lake Next' — LGA 1700 platform apparently slated for first half of 2027, takes a page from AMD's book by extending budget platform longevity

The name came up a few times during our conversations at Computex. Intel has declined to comment on it.

AI summary По неподтверждённым данным, Intel планирует выпустить в первой половине 2027 года процессоры Raptor Lake Next, которые станут третьей итерацией семейства Raptor Lake и будут использовать платформу LGA 1700 с поддержкой DDR4. Информация была подтверждена несколькими источниками, включая производителей материнских плат, однако Intel официально не комментирует эти слухи.

Nvidia preps to sell its Vera CPUs into China as its GPU sales stay frozen — customers encouraged to place orders for CPU shipments as early as August

Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its Arm-based Vera server CPUs could be available as soon as August.

AI summary Nvidia ha informato i clienti cinesi che le sue CPU server Vera basate su architettura Arm potrebbero essere disponibili già ad agosto. L'azienda incoraggia l'invio di ordini per questi processori, mentre le vendite di GPU in Cina rimangono bloccate. Fonti indicano che la mossa rappresenta un tentativo di aggirare le restrizioni sull'export di chip AI.

Radeon RX 9070 XT finally appears in Steam Hardware Survey — RDNA 4 flagship surprisingly lands just behind RTX 5080

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has finally penetrated the Steam Survey video card results table, going straight in at position 25.

AI summary The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has appeared in the Steam Hardware Survey for the first time, more than a year after its launch, ranking 25th with 1.33% of users, just below the GeForce RTX 5080 at 23rd place. The standard Radeon RX 9070 ranks much lower at 80th place with 0.18%.

Nvidia's high-speed AI data center storage servers break cover, touting 2.9 petabytes of storage and extreme PCIe 6.0 performance — Wiwynn shows off SCADA server with GPU-accelerated storage

Wiwynn is among the first to demonstrate Nvidia SCADA server that promises to offer AI systems petabytes of ultra-fast storage thanks to GPU-accelerated storage acceleration.

Various vendors add AMD EXPO Ultra-Low Latency to 600-series motherboards in latest BIOS updates — tech tightens memory subtimings on compatible kits, boosting FPS by up to 4%

New BIOS updates featuring AMD EXPO Ultra Low Latency support are being released across a plethora of 600-series motherboards by multiple vendors.

Get 32GB of DDR5 RAM for only $255 in this 2-item combo from Newegg — just $514.99 gets you Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM and a Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite motherboard, 26% off

Newegg slashes ~$185 off this 2-item combo, dropping the RAM to an affordable $255 - just $514.99 gets you a solid Gigabyte X870 motherboards, and 32GB of RAM in this incredible Newegg combo deal.

Memory famine compels GPU vendors to re-release 2020 graphics cards — GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 return to Asian market

Graphics card manufacturer Manli adds new GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 SKUs to its portfolio.

Crushing shortages force Biwin into $1.86 billion NAND deal for SSDs — multi-year agreement locks in fixed pricing as spot market threatens to dry up

Biwin signs a 24-months supply agreement with an unknown NAND maker to get memory worth $1.86 billion.

Massive 8TB SD cards are set to ship 'shortly' after a two-year delay — mind-blowing storage at possibly bank-breaking prices

Notebookcheck reports that 8TB SD cards will soon hit the retail market, although an exact launch date and pricing remain a mystery.

Louis Rossmann is suing Samsung after firm offers $330 refund for defective SSD while selling the drives on Amazon for $949 — spat over 4TB 990 Pro SSD is headed to court

Right to Repair activist Louis Rossman threatens to sue Samsung after the SSD maker failed to replace his dead 990 Pro 4TB SSD under warranty.

Intel's upcoming Z970 and Z990 flagship chipsets will reportedly consume up to 14W at peak load, courtesy of more PCIe 5.0 support — Nova Lake motherboards may feature a 22% smaller PCH than Z890

The Z990 PCH for Nova Lake motherboards is apparently 22% smaller than Z890, despite featuring a higher power maximum power draw of up to 14W. The leaked picture of the PCH shows a 11.15 x 6.5mm die and 25 x 24mm package, but we're unsure what motherboard it actually comes from.

AMD fires back at Nvidia, claiming 256-core Zen 6 'Venice' CPU beats Vera by 3.3x in rack-level performance — company shares first estimated EPYC Venice benchmarks

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.