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Jon Porter

Jon Porter

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    Stay safe Nvidia.

    AMD wants you to know its new GPUs won’t have the same issues as Nvidia’s RTX 4090, which has been hit by reports of melting power cables.

    Marketing director Sasa Marinkovic tweeted a picture of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX’s industry standard dual 8-pin connectors, no Nvidia-style adapter required.

    Burn.

    Jon Porter
    Jon Porter
    The UK’s getting protective over its chips.

    Over a year ago Nexperia, a subsidiary of Chinese company Wingtech, acquired the UK’s largest microchip factory. But now the British government wants the deal unwound, citing national security concerns.

    Bloomberg notes that it’s the second acquisition by a Chinese company to be blocked under the UK’s new National Security and Investment Act. Nexperia says it disagrees with the decision, and will appeal.