On September 12, 2012, Apple said farewell to its clunky 15-pin connector and brought in a sleek, smooth, reversible 8-pin connector called the Lightning plug. It served the Apple ecosystem well ...

AMD claims that it had given a thought to use the high-power 16-pin power connector for its latest GPUs. ... Nvidia's RTX 4090 connectors are melting, and we still don't know the exact cause.

Currently, some RTX 4000 graphics cards sport a 16-pin connector, but not all of them by any means, particularly at the lower-end of the GPU spectrum where older 8-pin connectors are still the ...

The original 12VHPWR connector used on the RTX 4090, among other Nvidia GPUs, has been a source of controversy, with wide-ranging reports of smoking graphics cards and melting GPU power connectors ...

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and… ...