Researcher Unlocks NVIDIA Mining Card VRAM Using Voltage Fault Injection
11/13/2026 — 11/13, 16:16·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A foreign researcher successfully unlocked the disabled VRAM and computing units of an NVIDIA CMP 170HX mining card using voltage fault inje…
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According to cnBeta, a foreign researcher named Kate used voltage fault injection to successfully unlock the disabled memory and computing units on an NVIDIA CMP 170HX mining card. The modification turned an 8GB mining card into an A100-class compute card with 80GB of VRAM.
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