Panic buying boosts shipments 

Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.

Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers

The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.

Adds curvy new Odyssey G7 to its display arsenal

Samsung has decided gamers still aren’t clicking enough buttons per second, so it’s unveiled the Odyssey OLED G6, which it claims is the world’s first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor, alongside two new Odyssey G7 models.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D shipments halted

AMD appears to have pulled the plug on its Ryzen 7 5700X3D, ending the run of X3D CPUs for the company’s long-lived AM4 platform.

Navi 33 silicon gets another spin for gamers and workstations

AMD has added two new cards to its line-up, the Radeon RX 7400 for gamers who like to keep their wallets intact, and the Radeon Pro W7400 for the workstation crowd.

Protection money

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the Trump administration 15 per cent of revenues from their China chip sales in return for export licences.

Korean overclocker "Phantom" to blame

G.SKILL was keen to brag about a new overclocking record of its DDR5 R-DIMM memory, where a renowned Korean overclocker has managed to hit DDR5-8400 frequency with CL38 timings on a high-capacity 256GB (8x32GB) kit. The overclocking was done on the Asus Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard and the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9985WX processor.

Oxmiq aims to gut the GPU ecosystem and build it back from scratch

Intel's former GPU supreme Dalek, Raja Koduri has popped up at a new startup, Oxmiq Labs, where he plans to reinvent the entire AI GPU market with a so-called “software first” plan that seems hell-bent on killing off CUDA’s stranglehold.

In the darkness bind them

AMD is getting chummy with Microsoft again and is cooking up a custom chip that will run the next-gen Xbox console, and PCs and handhelds. 

Santa Clara outfit fails to impress investors with sluggish data centre gains

AMD fluffed its lines again in the AI chip race, posting second-quarter data centre revenue that barely moved the needle despite the market frenzy around artificial intelligence.