Both sides rejigging their offerings

Nvidia and AMD are frantically revising their next-gen AI designs in an effort to out-muscle each other, with power budgets and memory bandwidth figures spiralling upwards.

Tenfold efficiency claim

TSMC said that AI-driven design tools have lifted its AI chip energy efficiency by about ten times.

Nvidia’s cash and Washington’s chequebook shift the mood

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC is about to shove cash towards its rival Intel.

Radeon 9000, 7000 and Ryzen AI kit now less useless 

AMD has delivered on its Computex 2025 promise to make PyTorch work on Windows for consumer GPUs and APUs.

Hopes Job’s Mob can bail it out of financial quagmire

Troubled Chipzilla is reportedly rattling the tin at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, hoping the iPhone maker might toss a few billion its way to keep the lights on at Intel Foundry Services.

Beijing blocks RTX Pro 6000

China has told some of its biggest tech outfits, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to stop messing about with Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 chips.

HBM4e push

Micron has started throwing its weight around in the memory arena again, claiming that its new HBM4 samples are not only the fastest around but sip power better than anything rivals have to offer.

Chipmaker plans to bank roll a glut of AI data centres

Nvidia has decided to fling up to $100 billion at OpenAI in what is being dressed up as a grand AI infrastructure partnership.

US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant

Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.

Nvidia price slide continues

While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.