Nvidia cooks up chip-tracking tech
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GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

AMD releases Software Adrenalin 25.12.1 WHQL driver
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Brings support for AMD FSR4 Redstone

AMD has released its newest Software Adrenalin Edition 25.12.1 WHQL driver, adding support for AMD FSR4 Redstone as well as support for new Radeon AI PRO GPUs and several bug fixes.

Nvidia’s new CUDA Tile sparks chatter about the end of software lock-in
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Tiling makeover could open the door to rival GPUs

Nvidia has rolled out one of the biggest updates to its CUDA software stack in years, and chip design legend Jim Keller reckons it might even spell the end of its long-guarded exclusivity.

Nvidia slams the door on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
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Game-ready drivers stop at 590

Nvidia has done the deed and cut game-ready driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta cards, leaving even the once-mighty GTX 1080 Ti staring at a future of security patches and not much else.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 does well on Steam Hardware Survey
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Passes GeForce RTX 4070 with 2.23 percent

NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5070 has now passed the Ada-based RTX 4070 in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, making it one of the top-placed RTX 50 series graphics cards.