NVIDIA slips in new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell SKU
With 72GB of GDDR7 ECC memory
NVIDIA has silently introduced a new version of the RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU that comes with 72GB of GDDR7 memory.
Intel bends the knee to Blackwell in hybrid AI rack stunt
Bundles Gaudi with Nvidia to stay in the game
Troubled Chipzilla has admitted it can’t beat Nvidia in the AI silicon war, so now it’s joining them by stuffing its own Gaudi 3 chips into a rack-scale server alongside Team Green’s mighty Blackwell B200 GPUs.
TSMC shows off its Arizona fab in rare factory video
Twinscan EUV kit and shiny wafer robots steal the show
Wafer-maker-in-chief TSMC has released a glossy video giving the world a look inside its Fab 21 plant in Phoenix, Arizona, and it’s stuffed with chip porn for the semiconductor-curious.
Nvidia uses radical cooling trick for Rubin Ultra AI chips
Ditches traditional liquid cooling
Nvidia is preparing a major rethink of how it cools its next-generation Rubin Ultra AI chips, reportedly moving to a new microchannel cover plate system to stop its silicon beasts from overheating.
Amazon jams Alexa+ into everything
Generative AI shoved into Echos, Fire TVs and doorbells
Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ across a pile of its hardware, effectively welding generative AI into daily life whether people want it or not.
Chinese government tells firms to bin Nvidia AI chips
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.
AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Hopes devs finally look at its software stack
AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.
Microsoft forks out $30 billion on UK
Trump’s visit coincides with Nvidia, Google and others throwing cash at Britain
Software King of the World, Microsoft has promised to dump $30 billion (€28 billion) into the UK by 2028 as it tries to beef up its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing
AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”
Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU targets AI inferencing arms race
Rack-sized monster to crush token counts
Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.