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Cambricon cashes in on anti-Nvidia orders
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Beijing's AI chip pipsqueak rakes in the yuan

Chinese chip upstart Cambricon is laughing all the way to the bank after netting a record profit on the back of Beijing's vendetta against Nvidia.

Intel warns about Trump’s partial nationalisation
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US government stake could be a poisoned chalice

Troubled Chipzilla has admitted that the US government’s shiny new 9.9 per cent stake in the firm might be more of a liability than a lifeline.

Huawei working on HBM-free AI SSDs
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Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

IBM Power11 gets speed boost and AI smarts
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Uses Samsung's enhanced 7nm node with 2.5D stacking

IBM has wheeled out its Power11 server CPU at Hot Chips 2025, giving it higher clocks, AI acceleration, and a taste of Samsung’s iCube 2.5D packaging.

AMD blames mobo makers for AM5 socket meltdowns
Published in PC Hardware


Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest

AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.