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‘Never in your life buy a 5090 Founders Edition’: repair tech slams Nvidia’s flagship card design for train wreck melting 16-pin power connector


The GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is Nvidia’s own-brand flagship GPU for consumers, but one repair technician says it comes with a hidden flaw that makes it “one of the worst designs in the history of… GPUs,” he’s seen. In a teardown uploaded to the Northridge Fix YouTube channel, the card was declared unrepairable after damage to an internal connector — one that, the technician claims, cannot be replaced or sourced.

The card in question was sent in after it stopped outputting video…



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Micron has disclosed another major postponement for its fabs near Clay, New York, which will pull out the facilities coming online only in late 2033, reports Syracuse, citing recently released documents from Micron. The delay, if true, marks a major struggle for a major semiconductor production cluster that was once set to start production in 2025 in the state of New York. But while the company delays its fabs near Clay, it is accelerating its Idaho fabs and reallocating CHIPS Act funding to that… Source link

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Leading action-and webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps to its most valued employees. SCMP reports that this generosity has become something of a tradition in recent years at the Shenzhen, China-based imaging technology firm. On ‘Programmer’s Day’ last month, for example, 21 keycaps were gifted, worth up to $45,000 each. The firm’s practice of sharing out golden gifts reportedly started around four years ago. This likely coincided with the firm gaining traction and a good… Source link

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As an unprecedented DRAM crisis unfolds, artificial intelligence is sowing chaos on another front: storage. Data centers using nearline HDDs are switching to SSDs to avoid lead times, which has led to a supply squeeze for NAND flash memory — one that’s set to only worsen as the insatiable appetite for AGI continues to grow. As reported by Digitimes, Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua confirmed that NAND prices have more than doubled in the past six months and that he expects it to stay this way for a while…. Source link