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.
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.
Nvidia shows off Blackwell GB200 and GB300 racks
Chipmaker talks modular MGX architecture and rack guts at Hot Chips 2025
Nvidia used Hot Chips 2025 to show how its Blackwell GB200 and GB300 systems are bolted together, highlighting its modular MGX platform and sprinkling in a bit of open compute virtue-signalling along the way.
China turns off Nvidia over loudmouth US trade chief
Beijing tells tech giants to dump AI chip after US boasts spark fury
The Middle Kingdom is quietly telling its top tech outfits to give up on buying the H20, a neutered AI chip from Nvidia, after a senior US official’s remarks left Beijing fuming.
Nvidia to bring Blackwell architecture to Geforce NOW in September
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5080-class GPUs on the cloud
Nvidia prepared quite a few big announcements for Gamescom 2025, and one of the more important ones is the update to its Geforce NOW cloud gaming platform, which includes the addition of Blackwell architecture to the platform, the introduction of Install-to-Play, new Cinematic Quality Streaming Mode, more devices, and Discord integration. Nvidia is also adding a few new connectivity and mobile network partners.
China leans on Nvidia chip buyers
Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon
The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.
Nvidia straps Blackwell GPUs into more enterprise servers
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell heads for mainstream 2U systems
Nvidia is stuffing its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs into the world’s most popular enterprise server designs, claiming it will help companies ditch slow CPU-only boxes for faster, more efficient accelerated computing.
Why Huang giving Trump a kick back was Nvidia's only move
It is unclear if it is actually legal
Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.
Beijing gives Nvidia a kicking over H20 chip
Claims of tracking tech and remote shutdown
Nvidia’s charm offensive in China has taken a nosedive after Beijing summoned the firm to explain what it claimed were “serious security issues” buried in its made-for-China AI chips.
AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
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.