
Nvidia gives Micron SOCAMM gig
Memory market braces for shake‑up
Nvidia is moving to disrupt the memory market again, planning to deploy between 600,000 and 800,000 SOCAMM modules in 2025 and handed the entire contract to Micron.

Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.

Zotac shows new Geforce RTX 5090 ArcticStorm AIO graphics card
Running a full-sized 360mm liquid-cooling AIO
Zotac has announced the new ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5090 ARCTICSTORM AIO, a liquid-cooled Geforce RTX 5090 graphics card that features a full-sized 360 mm radiator.

Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 announcement comes on August 5th
Same clocks but less memory
The upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 will launch on August 5th, according to leaks coming from Chinese media. As detailed earlier, Nvidia is bypassing restrictions by keeping the same clocks but reducing the memory down to 24GB.

TSMC's US fabs cost Big Tech more
AMD and Nvida forced to swallow higher prices
Getting cutting-edge chips out of TSMC’s US fabs is proving far pricier than sticking with its tried-and-tested Taiwan plants, but big tech doesn’t have much choice right now.

SK hynix preps 24 Gb GDDR7 for beefier GPUs
Kicks off HBM4 supply
SK hynix is cranking up the memory arms race, confirming it’s building 24 Gb GDDR7 modules to give next-gen GPUs fatter VRAM buffers while lining up HBM4 for AI and HPC workloads.

AMD's triple-slot RX 7000 cooler leaks
Three 8-pins, three slots, and three years too late
Sometimes cancelled products often reveal more than those that launch. A leaked Radeon RX 7000-series cooler, unknowingly bought on a Chinese marketplace, has dwarfed an RX 7900 XTX when compared.

Nvidia’s H20 chip ban is lifted, but the production mess is just beginning
Supply chain pressed snooze
The much-hyped lifting of the US ban on Nvidia’s H20 AI chips sounds like a win, but the reality is a lot messier.

Nvidia makes CUDA play nice with RISC-V
GPU giant eyes open silicon for edge
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia dropped a bombshell by revealing that its CUDA software platform will now run on RISC-V CPUs.

Musk hunts for another $12 billion to fuel xAI’s AI arms race
Looking down the back of the sofa
Elon Musk is scraping together yet more billions to keep xAI from falling behind in the blood-soaked artificial intelligence arms race.