China’s AI fever sends Moore Threads shares into orbit
Beijing’s chip hopeful rockets on debut
AI mania has China in a proper lather as punters pile into homegrown AI chip designer Moore Threads.
Nvidia’s grip on AI chips starts to loosen
A growing pack of rivals eyes the crown
One company has sat on the AI chip throne for a decade, but the ground beneath Nvidia is starting to shift.
Nvidia slams the door on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
Game-ready drivers stop at 590
Nvidia has done the deed and cut game-ready driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta cards, leaving even the once-mighty GTX 1080 Ti staring at a future of security patches and not much else.
Nvidia insists the AI gravy train won’t derail any time soon
Shrugs off bubble talk while bragging about Rubin
Nvidia is trying to calm the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street again, this time with its chief bean-counter insisting that fears of an AI bubble are nonsense.
Micron kills off Crucial because AI giants pay far more
DIY RAM buyers lose out as hyperscalers hoover up every wafer in sight
Micron has decided that flogging low-margin RAM to ordinary punters is no longer worth the candle and will axe its Crucial consumer brand in 2026 after 29 years.
PC makers bleed cash as AI giants hoard memory supplies
Shrinking margins force next year’s machines towards painful price hikes.
Global tech titans are gorging on DRAM and flash to feed their AI obsessions, leaving the humble PC market to scrap for leftovers as unit prices rocket.
AWS grabs Nvidia gear to muscle into the big AI leagues
Amazon arms its cloud with chip tech while rivals circle.
Amazon’s AWS outfit is strapping Nvidia’s prized NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 chip as it tries to lure heavyweight AI customers onto its cloud turf.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 does well on Steam Hardware Survey
Passes GeForce RTX 4070 with 2.23 percent
NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5070 has now passed the Ada-based RTX 4070 in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, making it one of the top-placed RTX 50 series graphics cards.
NVIDIA DLSS comes to more games, including Where Winds Meet
Giving away ARC Raiders-themed GeForce RTX 5090
NVIDIA has added a few more games to its DLSS list, including Where Winds Meet and Forest Doesn't Care. It is also giving away a custom-wrapped, ARC Raiders-themed RTX 5090 graphics card as part of The Season of RTX.
MediaTek spins TPU gold into a sharper Dimensity 9600
Google’s Ironwood finally gives Nvidia a real worry
Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 has rattled the AI hardware world by emerging as the first ASIC able to trouble Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and spark scrutiny.