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Breaking OpenAI partners with Malta to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens as government AI strategy Chips Elytone Electronics expands AV design services, deepens magnetics and power tech portfolio Market India Missed Out on AI and Now Its Run as Market Darling May Be Over Market S&P 500 extends weekly win streak despite weak Trump-Xi summit signals Funding Law Firm OS, Defense Tech, and Cell-Based Alternatives Lead Weekly Startup Funding Flow Breaking Google Sunsetting reCAPTCHA, Launches Cloud Fraud Defense for Enterprise Bot Detection Breaking Ubuntu Pivots to Local AI Over Cloud-First Strategy; Canonical Bets On-Device Processing Market Global Inventory Race Intensifies on Iran Tensions; Suppliers Prioritize Nearshoring Market Cerebras IPO Revives AI Chip Startup Fever; Hardware Segment Eyes 2026 Rebound Chips RTX 5090 gaming PC bundles hit market under $4,000 as GPU-inclusive pricing strategy emerges Breaking Anthropic adds Routines to Claude for code automation workflows Funding Destinus in €200M funding talks as European defense drone makers vie for scale Chips Intel abandons Core Ultra 9 290K Plus over marginal performance gap with 270K Funding Anduril leads $3.7B in weekly funding rounds; venture activity remains strong Market Cerebras blockbuster IPO revives AI chip startup funding appetite Breaking OpenAI partners with Malta to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens as government AI strategy Chips Elytone Electronics expands AV design services, deepens magnetics and power tech portfolio Market India Missed Out on AI and Now Its Run as Market Darling May Be Over Market S&P 500 extends weekly win streak despite weak Trump-Xi summit signals Funding Law Firm OS, Defense Tech, and Cell-Based Alternatives Lead Weekly Startup Funding Flow Breaking Google Sunsetting reCAPTCHA, Launches Cloud Fraud Defense for Enterprise Bot Detection Breaking Ubuntu Pivots to Local AI Over Cloud-First Strategy; Canonical Bets On-Device Processing Market Global Inventory Race Intensifies on Iran Tensions; Suppliers Prioritize Nearshoring Market Cerebras IPO Revives AI Chip Startup Fever; Hardware Segment Eyes 2026 Rebound Chips RTX 5090 gaming PC bundles hit market under $4,000 as GPU-inclusive pricing strategy emerges Breaking Anthropic adds Routines to Claude for code automation workflows Funding Destinus in €200M funding talks as European defense drone makers vie for scale Chips Intel abandons Core Ultra 9 290K Plus over marginal performance gap with 270K Funding Anduril leads $3.7B in weekly funding rounds; venture activity remains strong Market Cerebras blockbuster IPO revives AI chip startup funding appetite

Chips Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 06:46 PM

AMD GPU drivers cause temperature spike; Microsoft patches Windows Update driver downgrade flaw

AMD GPU owners reported a fan control issue with the latest driver update, where the Zero RPM feature inadvertently allows GPU temperatures to rise by disabling cooling prematurely. The problem affects RDNA-based cards and has gained traction on Reddit as users discover unexpected thermal behavior in compute and gaming workloads. AMD has not yet published a public advisory or timeline for a fix.

Separately, Microsoft is developing a fix to prevent Windows Update from downgrading GPU drivers, using multiple hardware IDs to detect incompatible driver versions. The two issues highlight ongoing friction in GPU driver distribution and the complexity of coordinating thermal management across driver updates and hardware revisions.

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