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  • Get Ready for Another Nvidia GPU Crunch

    Get Ready for Another Nvidia GPU Crunch

    Gamers may enjoy a ready supply of Nvidia GPUs, but that may soon change as the AI market heats up.

    During the pandemic and crypto heyday, Nvidia’s GPUs were in short supply. The sudden uptick in demand for personal computers and crypto mining rigs combined to drive the price of Nvidia’s GPUs through the roof and make it almost impossible to actually buy one.

    Those days may return faster than anyone — except Nvidia, of course — may like. At the GTC 2023 Keynote yesterday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made it clear that Nvidia is all-in on AI.

    “We are at the iPhone moment of AI,” Huang said during his keynote, in which he touted the number of companies rolling out Nvidia’s AI systems. The list of companies includes Atos, AWS, Cirrascale, CoreWeave, Dell, Gigabyte, HPE, Lambda, Lenovo, Oracle, QCT, and Supermicro.

    As TechRadar’s John Loeffler points out, the increased demand for Nvidia’s chips in the AI market could eventually force the company to choose between the consumer gaming market and the more profitable commercial market. This could lead to a significant reduction in available GPUs, or it could lead to Nvidia pulling out of the market altogether.

  • IBM Is Raising Storage Prices

    IBM Is Raising Storage Prices

    IBM is raising the price of storage for customers outside the US, the latest indication of the effects of growing inflation.

    IBM has announced storage price increases for customers in Canada, Europe, Japan, the Caribbean, and regions in Africa including South Africa and Morocco, according to TechRadar and The Register.

    Customers will see 5% to 10% increases for FlashSystem 5000, FlashSystem 7000, IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS), IBM SAN Volume Controller, and IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).

    While IBM has not officially commented on the reason for the price increase, rapidly rising inflation is likely the cause.

  • Instagram Down for Millions

    Instagram Down for Millions

    Instagram appears to be experiencing major problems Monday, with users reporting being locked out and having their accounts suspended.

    According to Downdetector.com, the issues started showing up around 9:00 AM Monday. The issues seemed to progress throughout the day, with many users locked out of their accounts and others being told their accounts were suspended.

    A Meta spokesperson gave the following statement to TechRadar:

    “We are aware that some Instagram users in different parts of the world are having issues accessing their Instagram accounts. We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and apologize for the inconvenience.”

  • Microsoft Killing Auto-Play Web Videos In Edge Update

    Microsoft Killing Auto-Play Web Videos In Edge Update

    Microsoft is putting auto-play web videos in its crosshairs, turning off the feature by default in an upcoming Edge update.

    One of the most frustrating aspects of browsing the web is videos that start auto-playing as soon as you land on the site. Especially if you have music or other programming playing in the background, the videos can be unwelcome intrusions.

    An upcoming update to Microsoft Edge will tackle the problem, turning off video auto-play by default. First spotted by TechRadar, the feature is listed in Microsoft’s 365 roadmap.

    To help you maintain your focus online, we have changed the default for auto playing media to Limit from Allow, beginning with Microsoft Edge version 92.

    The feature will be rolling out in July.

  • Apple Testing Two Different Foldable iPhone Designs

    Apple Testing Two Different Foldable iPhone Designs

    Apple has tasked its top supplier, Foxconn, with producing two different prototype designs for a foldable iPhone.

    Foldable phones are considered the next evolution of modern smartphones. Foldable designs allow for phones that can more easily be carried in a pocket, yet expand to offer the screen real estate of a small tablet. While Microsoft, Motorola and Samsung have released foldable phones, Apple has yet to embrace the trend. Many believe Apple has been working to perfect the design and avoid the problems other companies have faced.

    Apple’s plans may be closer to fruition, if the rumors are to be believed. According to TechRadar, citing Taiwanese website United Daily News, two prototype designs have passed the necessary durability tests to be considered for production.

    One design is evidently the traditional clamshell style, such as those sold by Motorola and Samsung. The other design is reminiscent of the Microsoft Surface Duo’s dual-screen design. It’s unknown whether Apple will eventually release both designs, or consolidate around a single one.

    Obviously, Apple testing foldable designs doesn’t provide a lot of concrete information, but it’s further evidence that Apple will likely enter the market once they are convinced they can do so with their usual panache.

  • AMD’s Ryzen 5000 Is More Bad News For Intel

    AMD’s Ryzen 5000 Is More Bad News For Intel

    The reviews of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips are in, and it’s more bad news for Intel.

    AMD’s Ryzen is one of the company’s most successful line of chips and has been making significant inroads against Intel. The popular Ryzen 3000 chips challenged Intel on the desktop.

    AMD next went after Intel’s mobile market with the 4000 line of chips. Mobile chips is an area where Intel had always been unmatched, offering a combination of performance and efficiency AMD couldn’t match. For the first time, the Ryzen 4000 put AMD in a competitive race with Intel for the mobile market.

    AMD followed up with the Threadripper Pro CPU, designed to take on Intel’s Xeon line. Like the Xeon, Threadripper Pro is aimed at the workstation market.

    Now AMD is going after the gaming industry with the Ryzen 5000 series. As TechRadar points out, AMD has long had the advantage in multi-threaded performance, while Intel was the king of single-threaded tasks. The Ryzen 5000 changes, with the end result being a line of processors that has almost every advantage over Intel.

    With the Ryzen 9 5900X, along with other processors in the lineup, like the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, there is no reason to buy an Intel processor for your next gaming PC. Not only does AMD have the better performance across the board, but because Intel still hasn’t implemented PCIe 4.0 support, AMD processors are more fully-featured and future-proof, too.

    Intel has had a string of issues. The company has struggled to keep up with demand, to move to 10nm and 7nm processors and is even considering outsourcing their manufacturing. Meanwhile, Apple is moving away from Intel in favor of its own chips. AMD’s Ryzen 5000 is just the latest evidence that Intel is no longer the undisputed king of the chip business.