Tom's Hardware

Analysts halve Nvidia Blackwell cabinet shipment forecasts for 2025 — prediction contrasts AI boom

Unnamed industry analysts quoted by DigiTimes have cut their 2025 forecasts for Nvidia GB200-based NVL72 machines by over 50%, which contradicts almost all shipment projections for AI hardware this year. One important catch is that the analysts slashed sales forecasts only for machines based on Nvidia’s Arm processors. Sales of x86-based machines with B200 GPUs… Read more

GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility

GlobalFoundries announced that it will build an advanced packaging and testing facility at its Malta, New York fab to support the growing demand for silicon built entirely within the United States. GlobalFoundries said that this extension will also provide assembly and testing for silicon photonics, a tech that combines optical and electrical components to deliver… Read more

AM5 copper guard stops you from making a mess on your Ryzen CPU — also improves heat dissipation

PC parts and accessories manufacturer Ainex, based in Japan, just launched the MK-04C AM5 CPU guard plate. This device, made using copper, fits around the heat spreader of AM5 chips, allowing users to cleanly apply thermal paste without a considerable chunk falling off the edge. Ainex said on its X (formerly Twitter) account that the… Read more

AMD preps 32-core and 64-core Threadripper 9000 CPUs — Shimada Peak resurfaces once again

(Image credit: AMD) Several months have passed since a Ryzen Threadripper 9000 (codenamed Shimada Peak) tip hit the rumor mill. However, a new one has emerged, featuring key specs on upcoming variants. Everest on X discovered a shipping manifest featuring 64-core and 32-core SKUs with a 350W TDP. The Threadripper 9000 series is the successor… Read more

RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090 — exceeds 500K points in Geekbench

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s RTX 50 series will debut with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 starting January 30. While official reviews, including ours, are under embargo, a potential leak has surfaced that suggests a modest 30% improvement over the last generation. The RTX 5090 has reportedly been benchmarked in Geekbench 5 (via Benchleaks) using… Read more

This Raspberry Pi handheld emulator looks like a Nintendo Switch but it can play many more games

Retro gaming on the Raspberry Pi is cool enough on its own but it’s even more exciting to see the neat housing makers come up with for their retro gaming rigs. Today we’ve got an awesome build put together by a maker known as BBoHK. Using the latest Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5), he’s… Read more

Bureaucracy and distance mean TSMC’s U.S. fabs may always be behind Taiwan

(Image credit: TSMC) Now that Taiwanese regulations allow TSMC to export its latest process technologies to its fabs overseas, the question is whether TSMC can do this and wants to do this considering the fact that all of its production nodes are developed in Taiwan. C.C. Wei, chief executive and chairman of TSMC, says that… Read more

Thermalright Grand Vision 360 Review: It’s not a competition, it is a massacre (again)

The last time I used the title of it’s not a competition, it is a massacre was when Thermalright released its Phantom Spirit 120 EVO air cooler . To this day I consider it one of the best options in air cooling. And after testing it, I’m equally impressed with Thermalright’s latest AIO, the Grand… Read more

Apple joins UALink Consortium for open-standard AI accelerator interconnections

(Image credit: Google) Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink) on Tuesday said that Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys have been elected to its board of directors, which allows the companies to influence development of UALink, a technology designed to enable connectivity of AI and HPC accelerators and meant to compete against Nvidia’s NVLink. The announcement outlines… Read more

TSMC’s Arizona Fab 21 mass produces 4nm chips at a higher price than Taiwan

(Image credit: Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) TSMC on Thursday officially confirmed that its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, had begun high volume production of chips after months of rumors and a confirmation from the U.S. Commerce Secretary earlier in January. The company emphasized that it is producing chips on one of its N4 process… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 5090, 5080 reportedly have the same L1 cache size per SM compared to RTX 4090, 4080

L1 and L2 cache specs for Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 have cropped up. HardwareLuxx reports that the RTX 5090 and 5080 have the same L1 cache capacity per SM as the 4090 and 4080, and the 5090 has 36% more L2 cache compared to its predecessor. L1 cache capacity per SM reportedly… Read more

China investigates whether CHIPS and Science Act harms its chip companies

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced it has received complaints from domestic companies about unfair subsidies provided by the Biden administration to U.S. chipmakers under the CHIPS and Science Act, reports state-owned GlobalTimes. As a result, China launched an investigation into U.S. government subsidies, claiming they harm Chinese chipmakers that produce chips on mature… Read more

China-tailored RTX 5090D has AI and cryptomining limiters — multi-GPU config is also locked

Nvidia’s upcoming China-focused RTX 5090D is purportedly locked down, preventing users from using the Blackwell GPU for specific workloads. A user on the Chiphell forums reports that after “3 seconds,” the RTX 5090D locks itself, preventing users from running particular workloads, overclocking the GPU, adjusting power limit parameters, and even using the GPU in multi-GPU… Read more

G.Skill releases DDR5-6400 C30 96GB memory kit — 64GB and 48GB kits are also in the works

G.Skill has announced new DDR5-6400 CL30 RAM kits that combine high memory capacities with fast speeds and low latency to compete with the best RAM. The kits, launched under the Trident Z5 RGB and Trident Z5 Royal series, will feature 96GB (2x48GB) capacities, with smaller 64GB and 48GB variants also in the works. The DRAM… Read more

Ryzen Z2 Go is seemingly 10% slower than Ryzen Z1 Extreme — Legion Go S clashes with ROG Ally X

AMD recently announced the Ryzen Z2 Go APU, so there are a lot of questions about the amount of performance it brings to the table compared to the Ryzen Z1 series. Thankfully, our curiosity was fulfilled by Fps VN when they shared the FPS test results of the Lenovo Legion Go S versus the Asus… Read more