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Semiconductors, foundries, advanced packaging and the global silicon supply chain, covered by The Silicon Ledger.
Leaked images of a blower-style variant of Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 have surfaced online, showing units packed for distribution from a Chinese facility. The discovery has sparked concerns about unauthorized distribution and whether the cooling design can handle the card's substantial power draw.
By switching to intrusive reflow soldering in partnership with Sony, Raspberry Pi has dramatically reduced product returns while speeding up production and cutting carbon emissions.
Nvidia's latest graphics cards are finding their way to MSRP in the German market, with entry-level and mid-range models now available at or below list price. The RTX 5090 remains the sole exception, continuing to command premium pricing.
User reports documenting defective Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors have climbed past 100 cases, with the majority occurring on ASRock motherboards, though some incidents may stem from firmware issues rather than hardware defects.
Micron is raising prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory, with increases expected to extend through 2025 and 2026 as artificial intelligence and data center demand intensifies.
AMD's forthcoming RDNA 4 consumer graphics cards will ship without official ROCm backing, marking another chapter in the software platform's struggle to keep pace with hardware releases.
The chipmaker has extended its timeline for the $100 billion Ohio One site, with the first manufacturing module now expected to begin production between 2030 and 2031, though the company says it can accelerate if demand requires.
Hydra Host has detailed its role in constructing the Exacluster, a system featuring 18 Lenovo machines equipped with 144 Nvidia H200 GPUs and custom networking infrastructure designed for both training and inference workloads.
