
Nvidia tightens grip on GPU market with 94 per cent share
Tariff panic sends buyers scrambling for cards
Nvidia has gobbled up 94 per cent of the GPU market as shipments jumped 27 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, a spike analysts reckon was fuelled by punters panic-buying ahead of looming tariffs.

OpenAI jumps into chipmaking with Broadcom
ChatGPT outfit wants to ditch Nvidia addiction
OpenAI is moving into chip manufacturing next year in a bid to feed its AI addiction and loosen its ties with Nvidia’s pricey silicon.

Nvidia Geforce NOW getting Blackwell RTX upgrade next week
Geforce RTX 5080-class streaming and 17 new games
Nvidia has announced that its Geforce NOW streaming platform will be getting Blackwell RTX update on September 10th, offering Geforce RTX 5080-class power streaming from the cloud, over 2,200 new Install-to-Play titles and more, as well as 17 fresh games this month and Battlefield 6 in October.

Acer announces Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation with Nvidia GB10 Superchip
You can pair two at $3,999 each
Acer has unveiled its version of an AI workstation based on the Nvidia GB10 Superchip, the Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation. Featuring the Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, it delivers up to 1 PFLOPS of FP4 AI performance and starts at $3,999.

Intel splurges $16 billion on R&D without much to show
18a dream node keeps swallowing cash as rivals surge ahead
Troubled Chipzilla is still burning cash at an alarming rate, sinking more than $16 billion into research and development last year, yet it has little to brag about.

32GB of RAM about to dethrone 16GB on Steam
Falling DDR5 prices and bloated AAA titles drive the move
Valve’s monthly Steam hardware survey shows that 32GB of RAM is about to shove 16GB off its throne as the default spec for PC gamers.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems outfit trousers cash to fire up fusion reactor
Bill Gates and Nvidia back Commonwealth’s plan to bottle a star
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has hoovered up another $863 million in fresh capital to fuel its dream of turning nuclear fusion into a commercial energy business that doesn’t melt the budget.

Alibaba whips out AI chip to dodge Nvidia squeeze
China’s silicon brigade tries to fill the GPU hole with homebrew parts
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has wheeled out a shiny new AI chip, hoping to plug the silicon hole left after Nvidia was kicked in the export rules by Uncle Sam.

Trump’s stake deal was all about locking Intel into foundry
Real countries have fabs
Intel has been strong-armed into holding on to its bleeding foundry business after Donald Trump’s administration tied subsidies to an equity grab.

Nvidia’s Rubin chips hit the fabs
More coming
Nvidia has confirmed that its next-generation Rubin AI chips are already in the fabs and ready to hit volume production in the second half of 2026.