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4 days ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale
Imagine finally getting your hands on the elusive (and expensive) Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU and bringing it home, only to discover that what you really have is a junk-filled box. As Videocardz notes, this happened to a Redditor who alerted the Micro Center in question—which then found more than 30 boxes missing their RTX 5090s. According to Redditor JamesFerg650, a trip to the Santa Clara, Calif.
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5 days ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Credit: Jon Martindale/ExtremeTech Windows 11 is Microsoft's latest and most fully featured operating system to date, and it runs just as well inside a virtual machine as with a native install. If you're looking to test an application, run some files that you aren't sure about, or just want a simple way to quickly access another operating system at any time, installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine is a great idea. We'll walk you through the straightforward steps to do just that.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale
Credit: Nvidia With no end in sight for the tech industry’s AI hardware appetite, Nvidia is planning the next generation of its AI server rack system. Nvidia expects to have 1 megawatt (MW) IT racks ready around 2027, and it is planning a massive power boost to support the new architecture. That will come in the form of its 800V HVDC power system. At the moment, AI centers feature 54V DC power in racks that have power needs as high as 200 kilowatts (KW).
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
AMD is going to launch its own cut-down AI graphics card exclusively for the Chinese market. Based on the AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700, this card will compete directly with Nvidia's RTX 5000-series GPUs and some of Huawei's homegrown AI hardware. The Chinese market has become increasingly important for GPU sales, and not just because of its huge gaming scene. The explosive growth of AI investment around the world has also seen Chinese firms buying up huge quantities of graphics cards.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: Alienware We’re not quite to the halfway point in the year, and it’s already clear that 2025 will be known for the upheaval from US-imposed tariffs. But a forecast from analyst firm IDC (by way of 9to5Mac) suggests that global PC volume will grow 4.1% this year. Unfortunately, its expectations for 2026 are lower.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Microsoft is all set to roll out new features in Windows 11 24H2, which will bring quite a few changes for both standard Windows 11 PCs and the Copilot+ PCs, as reported by TechRadar. The update is currently available as an optional preview for May and will become a full release in June 2025. One of the main features is Cross-Device Resume, which lets users pick up OneDrive files on their PC after using them on their phones.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Intel's next-generation Nova Lake desktop processors may use similar socket dimensions as existing Raptor Lake and Arrow Lake CPU sockets, suggesting that coolers should be compatible between generations. This comes despite the new socket, termed LGA 1954, sporting more pins than older LGA 1700 and 1851 standards. AMD's Ryzen CPUs aside, it's been traditional that CPU sockets tend to only last a couple of years or generations, which means anyone upgrading will need a new motherboard.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Josh Gulick
Video game retail outlet and premier meme stock GameStop has announced it has purchased over $500 million worth of bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. Before this announcement, the GameStop share price had risen to just over $35, the highest it's been in several years, but a far cry from the $500 or so it was at its meme-share peak. However, it has since fallen back to $31 as investors reacted to the investment. GameStop is many things to many people.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale
The White House appears to be considering imposing tariffs on semiconductors, and an array of industry players are speaking up. System builders like Dell and HP submitted letters in response to the US Commerce Secretary’s request for comments as part of an investigation that weighs the effects of importing semiconductors on national security.
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1 week ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale
Credit: TSMC TSMC plans to open a design center to support its fab in Germany, according to a report by Reuters. Unlike a fab, which requires years of construction, the design center is (comparably) easier and faster to launch. In fact, TSMC expects to open the center in the next several months.
