Elon, Altman and Huang trot out for Redmond’s power play
Software King of the World, Microsoft flexed its cloud muscle this week, wheeling out its AI mates and fresh software toys in a pitch to dominate the artificial intelligence land grab.
Nvidia ramps up Blackwell AI rack shipments
Suppliers fix mess, shipments rise, and Jensen breathes easier
Nvidia's kit partners have finally sorted out the mess that was delaying its flagship Blackwell AI server racks, and now the silicon is flowing just in time for the chipmaker’s next earnings pitch to the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.
Intel, Micron, Qualcomm say tarrifs could blow up their supply chains
Troubled Chipzilla has joined forces with Micron and Qualcomm to tell the Trump administration to pack in the semiconductor tariff sabre-rattling.
China creates x86 supercomputer monster
AMD lets Hydons be Hygons
China has stirred the silicon pot again, and fused CPU design and server manufacturing into a single beast with ambitions far beyond web hosting.
Chipzilla shows off CPU watercooling slab
Prototype microchannel cooler targets 1,000W heat
Troubled Chipzilla is playing with water again, this time showing off an in-package liquid cooler at its Foundry Direct Connect shindig. Rather than slapping a chunky block on top of an IHS, this design squirts coolant directly over the silicon, using copper microchannels to hit only the bits that get seriously toasty.
AMD chucks AI at FSR Redstone
Catching up with Nvidia DLSS
AMD is finally catching on that AI might actually be useful for something more than buzzwords. At Computex 2025, the chipmaker gave gamers a glimpse of FidelityFX Super Resolution Redstone, the next big leap for its upscaling tech that’s been trailing Nvidia’s DLSS for years.
Troubled Chipzilla hit by €776,000 fraud
Cooked up by insider and dodgy supplier
Troubled Chipzilla has found itself embroiled in a financial scandal in Israel after a former employee and a crooked component supplier allegedly siphoned off more than NIS 3 million, or about €776,000, in a long-running scam that went unnoticed for more than a year.
Tactile buttons and retro cool bite Job’s Mob where it hurts
The TCL Flip 4 5G is proof that touchscreens didn’t cure cancer, no matter how much Job’s Mob tried to convince the world otherwise. The so-called revolution of endless swipes and all-glass phones has started to wobble, and in strolls the humble flip phone with a smug little click.
Nvidia RTX 5090 prototype guzzles 2,400W
Leaked card sample is more power station than GPU
An engineering prototype of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has surfaced. This early design, posted by Twitter/X user @yuuki\_ans, sports four 16-pin power connectors and looks like something a Bond villain would use to light up a volcano lair.
Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors
Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks.