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Nvidia's board of directors reportedly approached Rene Haas, chief executive of Arm and a long-time Nvidia veteran, in CEO search.

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A techie turned a $2,500 CMP-170HX 8GB mining card into a full-fat $20,000 A100 80GB by carefully blowing onboard fuses to unlock entire VRAM and shader modules.

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