AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
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Reckons it can still slug it out with Nvidia's Blackwell

AMD has decided it no longer wants to be the budget option in AI hardware and is slapping a 70 per cent price hike on its high-end Instinct MI350 AI accelerator.

AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
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Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives

Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.

Nvidia gives Micron SOCAMM gig
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Friday, 25 July 2025 11:22

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 ramps up SOCAMM modular memory production
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Headed for AI PCs and servers

Nvidia is preparing up to 800,000 LPDDR-based SOCAMM modules this year ahead of a next-gen SOCAMM 2 launch designed to give its AI products superior performance and higher efficiency while remaining easily upgradeable.

Nvidia has only won a brief reprieve in the US–China chip war
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China troubles are not over

Nvidia's joy after the Trump administration loosened export restrictions, allowing the AI chip giant to sell its H20 processors in China, might be short lived, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump bends on Nvidia chip sales to China
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Beijing visit by CEO prompts rare reversal

Nvidia has wrung a rare concession out of the Trump administration, securing permission to flog its H20 artificial intelligence chip in China after a tense few months of uncertainty.

Pants Nvidia RTX 5060 tops Steam charts
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Low performance but laptops keep flying off shelves

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 may have landed with a thud in late May, but the budget Blackwell GPU is now topping the Steam charts anyway, thanks almost entirely to its laptop variant.

Nvidia to launch stripped down AI chip for China
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Chipmaker sidesteps US export bans with a neutered Blackwell

Nvidia is plotting to flog a China-specific AI chip in September. It's a lobotomised version of the Blackwell RTX Pro 6000, tweaked just enough to duck under the US's tightened export controls.

Geopolitics strangling AI server growth
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Tuesday, 08 July 2025 10:06

Geopolitics strangling AI server growth


Tariff fears and supply chain turmoil hit forecasts despite big tech spending spree

AI servers may be the backbone of today’s tech boom, but global shipment growth forecasts are slipping thanks to geopolitical headaches and tariff threats.

Foxconn shifts gears as Nvidia's GB300 server demand explodes
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AI server gold rush trumps smartphone season in Taiwan's supply chain

Nvidia's Blackwell GB300 AI servers are shaking up the production lines in Taiwan, with contract manufacturers ditching their usual priorities to chase the new silicon gravy train.