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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Navi 5X aims to undo the damage RDNA 4 did to AMD’s reputation

It looks like AMD has remembered it used to compete in the high-end GPU space and will reintroduce a proper halo-tier card after RDNA 4 meekly surrendered the enthusiast market to Nvidia.

N1X SoC delayed thanks to Microsoft, weak demand, and design tweaks

Nvidia’s big leap into Windows on Arm is already hitting speed bumps.

Chip giant warns of tariff risks despite surging demand

TSMC stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street on Thursday with a 61 per cent year-on-year jump in second-quarter profit, smashing records and beating expectations thanks to relentless demand for artificial intelligence silicon.

AI chip boom lifts orders, but tariffs and uncertainty bite

Dutch chipmaking kit supplier ASML has shrugged off some tariff fears with better-than-expected results, though it is hardly brimming with confidence about the future.