Today, Yamaha announced that two limited-edition models of the ZG01 gaming mixer, developed in collaboration with "NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a," will soon be available in the US market. The ZG01 042 and ZG01 153 draw inspiration from the "Pods" that accompany the main characters, 2B and 9S, in the universally acclaimed anime series.

In addition to featuring all of the capabilities of the original ZG01 model that was released in 2022—including intuitive controls and immersive 3D surround sound—the limited-edition ZG01 models will feature "NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a"-inspired designs across the mixer, packaging box, start guide, and ZG Controller application (Windows/Mac compatible). The ZG01 042 will include a white-based color scheme that accompanies 2B, while ZG01 153 features a black-based color scheme that accompanies 9S.
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(PR) Arctic Announces Freezer 4U-M Cooler for Threadripper 7000 Series
Yesterday AMD released the new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX series for socket sTR5. With the Freezer 4U-M, ARCTIC provides a strong cooling solution for the power-hungry CPUs with up to 96 cores, 5,35 GHz and 350 Watt TDP. With the new generation of workstation processors also known as Storm Peak, AMD offers a significant performance boost compared to the previous series. The ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M was specifically tested by AMD for these high-performance CPUs and met the specified performance values with plenty of margin.

To enable maximum airflow, the single-tower cooler with push-pull fan setup is specifically optimized for the east-west socket orientation (back-exhaust setup) of most Threadripper and EPYC boards and, unlike other cooler manufacturers, offers direct airflow in desktop - and server cases. The Freezer 4U-M is also compatible with AMD's SP6, SP3, TR4, sTRX4 and sWRX8, as well as Intel's LGA4189 and LGA4677 sockets.

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(PR) EK-Pro Line Gets Tube Clamps for Added Safety
EK, the world-renowned manufacturer of premium water-cooling equipment, is launching tube clamps for the EK-Pro series of Barb fittings. EK-Pro Clamps come in two different sizes to correspond with tubing barb sizes. They are made of steel to meet the harsh safety and quality requirements of the EK-Pro line.

The tube clamps are designed to grip the soft tube after it's installed over a barb fitting. They come in the following sizes:
  • 6/12 - for tubing that has a minimum diameter of 10 mm and a maximum of 12 mm
  • 10/17 - for tubing that has a minimum diameter of 15 mm and a maximum of 17 mm

EK-Pro Clamps cover all EK-Pro Barb fittings and tubing options and can be purchased in packs of either 20 or 100 pieces. They are manufactured from hot-rolled low-carbon steel sheets characterized by their excellent formability.
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(PR) NVIDIA AI Now Available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Training generative AI models just got easier. NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software are now available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace, making it possible for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers to access high-performance accelerated computing and software to run secure, stable and supported production AI in just a few clicks. The addition - an industry first - brings new capabilities for end-to-end development and deployment on Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can get started from the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to train models on DGX Cloud, and then deploy their applications on OCI with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Oracle Cloud and NVIDIA Lift Industries Into Era of AI
Thousands of enterprises around the world rely on OCI to power the applications that drive their businesses. Its customers include leaders across industries such as healthcare, scientific research, financial services, telecommunications and more. Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a catalog of solutions that offers customers flexible consumption models and simple billing. Its addition of DGX Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise lets OCI customers use their existing cloud credits to integrate NVIDIA's leading AI supercomputing platform and software into their development and deployment pipelines. With DGX Cloud, OCI customers can train models for generative AI applications like intelligent chatbots, search, summarization and content generation.
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(PR) NVIDIA and AMD Deliver Powerful Workstations to Accelerate AI, Rendering and Simulation
To enable professionals worldwide to build and run AI applications right from their desktops, NVIDIA and AMD are powering a new line of workstations equipped with NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation GPUs and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series CPUs. Bringing together the highest levels of AI computing, rendering and simulation capabilities, these new platforms enable professionals to efficiently tackle the most resource-intensive, large-scale AI workflows locally.

Bringing AI Innovation to the Desktop
Advanced AI tasks typically require data-center-level performance. Training a large language model with a trillion parameters, for example, takes thousands of GPUs running for weeks, though research is underway to reduce model size and enable model training on smaller systems while still maintaining high levels of AI model accuracy. The new NVIDIA RTX GPU and AMD CPU-powered AI workstations provide the power and performance required for training such smaller models, as well as local fine-tuning, and helping to offload data center and cloud resources for AI development tasks. The devices let users select single- or multi-GPU configurations as required for their workloads.
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(PR) Paradox Interactive Announces Astral Planes, New Expansion for Stellaris
Today, Paradox Interactive announced Astral Planes, a new narrative-focused expansion for its sci-fi strategy game Stellaris, coming later this year on PC. Thanks to new reality-breaking technologies and systems, in Astral Planes players will explore alternative dimensions and encounter creatures and phenomena in numerous parallel worlds. They will chart their own path through the unknown in self-contained and fully branching narratives, adding new depth and agency to player choices.

Navigate wonders and dangers through the different features included in Astral Planes:
NEW CORE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Unlock new Technologies, Actions, and Relics to manipulate space and interact with the galaxy in unexpected ways. Explore new realms filled with mysteries and opportunities.
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Lords of the Fallen Gets New Patches, Latest Patch 1.1.207 Brings Stability Improvements
Lords of the Fallen got plenty of patches in the last few days, with two of them, Patch 1.1.199 and 1.1.203, launched yesterday, and the latest, Patch v1.1.207, launched earlier today. The previous two fixed GPU crashes on AMD graphics cards, as well as a big fix for the issue in communication between the drivers and DirectX 12. The Patch 1.1.203 also brought a reduction in VRAM usage that should provide additional headroom for GPUs operating at the limit, which in turn should provide a substantial performance improvement, at least according to Paradox Interactive.

The latest Patch 1.1.207 brought further stability improvements, fixing several crash issues as well as implementing various optimization, multiplayer, gameplay, AI, Quest and other improvements. The release notes also note that the fix for the issue that causes the game to crash on Steam Deck has been fixed, and should be published as soon as it passes QA.
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(PR) Intel Launches Industry's First AI PC Acceleration Program
Building on the AI PC use cases shared at Innovation 2023, Intel today launched the AI PC Acceleration Program, a global innovation initiative designed to accelerate the pace of AI development across the PC industry.

The program aims to connect independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) with Intel resources that include AI toolchains, co-engineering, hardware, design resources, technical expertise and co-marketing opportunities. These resources will help the ecosystem take full advantage of Intel Core Ultra processor technologies and corresponding hardware to maximize AI and machine learning (ML) application performance, accelerate new use cases and connect the wider PC industry to the solutions emerging in the AI PC ecosystem. More information is available on the AI PC Acceleration Program website.
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