Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
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Beijing’s patience snaps

Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.

Blackrock sinks billions into Meta’s Louisiana AI project
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AI gold rush burns through even more cash

BlackRock has thrown billions into Meta’s latest AI adventure, backing a massive private-debt deal that could fund a mega data centre.

ASUS announces new Radeon TUF Series RX 9070 XT Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition
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Limited edition to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

ASUS has announced yet another limited edition graphics card, the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Edition, designed in cooperation with AMD and Activision.

NVIDIA slips in new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell SKU
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With 72GB of GDDR7 ECC memory

NVIDIA has silently introduced a new version of the RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU that comes with 72GB of GDDR7 memory.

JEDEC announces near completion of LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 standard
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Low-profile LPDRAM modules for data center AI applications

JEDEC has announced it is nearing completion of JESD328: LPDDR5/5X Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module (SOCAMM2) Common Standard, which is a new standard for low-profile LPDRAM modules for data center AI applications.