Chip manufacturers are warning of a shortage in DRAM, NAND and probably HBM memory chips because demand from cloud providers is outstripping supply. The problem is compounded by the Trump administration’s recent ban on Chinese factories manufacturing these components. The largest component manufacturer, Samsung, announced last week in the Korean press that it was going…
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Nvidia GPUs have been suffering since the Windows 11 October updateThe Microsoft patch meant some PC games ran slower than expectedNvidia has deployed an emergency hotfix to resolve these issuesNvidia GPU owners who’ve been having problems with sluggishness affecting some games in the past month now have a fix for these performance woes in Windows…
The UK government’s Autumn Budget contained no major announcements of significance to the tech sector, but there were a few developments that continue progress on existing digital policies. Chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves announced £300m of additional capital investment in NHS technology, intended to “boost productivity, support staff and improve patient outcomes, driving the…
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SAP has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to support it in its strategy to transform its internal IT through enterprise-wide cloud and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The German business software giant has worked with TCS for 20 years, which has included a project to transform SAP’s business model from licence-maintenance-based…
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AMD is rumored to be enacting a 10% price hike on all Radeon GPUsSupply issues around VRAM are pushing up the price of memoryThe cost will be passed on to consumers, so Black Friday might be as cheap as GPUs get for quite a long timeIf you’re thinking about buying a graphics card, there have…
RAM price hikes are now worryingly hefty at retailersSome RAM kits are double or closer to triple the cost they were just a couple of months agoThis could have a knock-on effect on the Steam Machine, but rumor has it Sony has played it smart by building up RAM supply for its consoleThere’s a new…
Windows 11’s October update may have introduced a nasty gaming bugIt affects Nvidia GPUs, and Team Green rushed out a hotfix last weekWe didn’t realize how bad the bug was, though, and testing shows the frame rate hit can be huge – in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it slows performance by 33% to 50%Nvidia pushed out…
Rumor suggests Nvidia could stop supplying partners with video RAMNormally, VRAM is bundled with the chip when sold to card makersIf true, Nvidia would leave the sourcing of VRAM to the individual makers – and that could be a real problem for smaller firmsNvidia might stop providing video RAM (VRAM) alongside its GPU chips when…
UK banks must act like big tech companies and less like startups if they want to emulate the success US banks have had with artificial intelligence (AI). According to research from Evident, which tracks financial services AI adoption, US banks lead the way. In its latest banking AI adoption index, six of the top 10…
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Whitehall’s ability to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology risks being hamstrung by the government’s reliance on an unknown amount of legacy IT, according to the output of two separate House of Commons committees this week.The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which exists to examine the output and policies of the Department for Science, Innovation and…
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