AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.
Nvidia gives Micron SOCAMM gig
Memory market braces for shake‑up
Nvidia is moving to disrupt the memory market again, planning to deploy between 600,000 and 800,000 SOCAMM modules in 2025 and handed the entire contract to Micron.
Nvidia ramps up SOCAMM modular memory production
Headed for AI PCs and servers
Nvidia is preparing up to 800,000 LPDDR-based SOCAMM modules this year ahead of a next-gen SOCAMM 2 launch designed to give its AI products superior performance and higher efficiency while remaining easily upgradeable.
Nvidia has only won a brief reprieve in the US–China chip war
China troubles are not over
Nvidia's joy after the Trump administration loosened export restrictions, allowing the AI chip giant to sell its H20 processors in China, might be short lived, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump bends on Nvidia chip sales to China
Beijing visit by CEO prompts rare reversal
Nvidia has wrung a rare concession out of the Trump administration, securing permission to flog its H20 artificial intelligence chip in China after a tense few months of uncertainty.
Pants Nvidia RTX 5060 tops Steam charts
Low performance but laptops keep flying off shelves
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 may have landed with a thud in late May, but the budget Blackwell GPU is now topping the Steam charts anyway, thanks almost entirely to its laptop variant.
Nvidia to launch stripped down AI chip for China
Chipmaker sidesteps US export bans with a neutered Blackwell
Nvidia is plotting to flog a China-specific AI chip in September. It's a lobotomised version of the Blackwell RTX Pro 6000, tweaked just enough to duck under the US's tightened export controls.
Geopolitics strangling AI server growth
Tariff fears and supply chain turmoil hit forecasts despite big tech spending spree
AI servers may be the backbone of today’s tech boom, but global shipment growth forecasts are slipping thanks to geopolitical headaches and tariff threats.
Foxconn shifts gears as Nvidia's GB300 server demand explodes
AI server gold rush trumps smartphone season in Taiwan's supply chain
Nvidia's Blackwell GB300 AI servers are shaking up the production lines in Taiwan, with contract manufacturers ditching their usual priorities to chase the new silicon gravy train.
Nvidia banks on governments to bankroll AI boom
Chipmaker shifts focus from Big Tech to nation-state billions
While the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street keep panicking over a slowdown in Big Tech’s AI spending, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang is busy shaking hands with heads of state and stacking up contracts that might make Silicon Valley look like small change.