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MNT Research Hits Back at AI Bubble Price Hikes, Parts Shortages with a Raspberry Pi CM5 Adapter

MNT Research, the company behind the MNT Reform family of open-hardware laptops and an upcoming tablet, has announced a plan to help address the increasing price of components including RAM chips and Arm processors: a "relatively low-cost" adapter to put a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) or compatible computer-on-module into any MNT Reform.

"Due to the memory shortage caused by the AI [Artificial Intelligence] industry, Arm module prices have risen and some are hard to get, causing longer lead times," the company explains in its most recent update. "To mitigate this situation, we're developing a successor to our compute module adapter RCM4, the RCM5. The idea is to offer a relatively low cost adapter for existing Arm processor modules, primarily targeting the Raspberry Pi CM5 and the Radxa CM5 with [Rockchip] RK3588S2."

MNT Research is facing component price hike and shortages, and is planning a Raspberry Pi CM5 adapter...

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European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act The European Commission has reached the preliminary position that Azure and AWS should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The gatekeeper designation would mean requirements imposed on the cloud giants, with fines of up to 10

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Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli

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China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole point. China is encouraging its

REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handled monstrosity

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: They say AI-generated images are becoming harder to spot, but that's not always the case. A recent Instagram ad for outdoor gear retail giant REI Co-op, for example, included a bike

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European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handled monstrosity