The major challenge that hampered the development and adoption of SOT-MRAM is now in the rearview mirror.

In Brazil, a dead RTX 5070 Ti fell victim to a lightning surge so abhorrent, it burned a hole through the PCB. Thankfully, it was saved by a donor RX 580 by carefully siphoning power from its VRMs to resuscitate the Nvidia GPU. The repair job is temporary at best, but the technicians behind it tease refinement to make the Frankenstein GPU eventually benchmark.

Seagate’s enterprise-grade Ironwolf Pro is on sale for $17 per terabyte for this 28TB HDD

The Dutch government has taken control of the Chinese-owned Nexperia, an automotive and consumer chip production company, for national security reasons. It’s claiming that to prevent key technologies from leaving European and Dutch soil, it needs to put hard blocks in place.