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US giants queue up for TSMC's Arizona silicon
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TSMC's stateside fabs are in hot demand

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, Supermicro, Nvidia, and Broadcom are all shoving each other to the front of the queue for production capacity at TSMC’s Arizona factory.

Nvidia pulls plug on China-only H20 GPU
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Friday, 22 August 2025 10:17

Nvidia pulls plug on China-only H20 GPU


Nvidia backs away as Chinese market turns sour

Nvidia appears to be winding down its H20 GPU line for China, as the economic and political winds continue to blow straight in its face.

Nvidia tapes out Rubin chips
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Friday, 22 August 2025 10:12

Nvidia tapes out Rubin chips


Huang reckons Rubin will reshape compute from the ground up

Nvidia supreme dalek Jensen Huang has confirmed that his outfit is already elbows-deep in its next big AI architecture, Rubin, which is apparently going to be a full-blown “revolution” for the compute world.

AMD leaks FSR 4 source code
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Thursday, 21 August 2025 09:57

AMD leaks FSR 4 source code


SDK update locks features behind DLLS

AMD had a bit of a senior moment this week when it accidentally dumped the FSR 4 source code on GitHub before yanking it offline when it realised they’d left the safe open.

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
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Tuesday, 19 August 2025 11:37

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push


Ramps up in-house CPU plans

Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.

Nvidia jacks up H20 chip prices to pay Trump tax
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Price increases passed on to China

Nvidia is hiking the price of its H20 AI chips by 18 per cent to bankroll a Trump-approved shake-down of its Chinese business.

Nvidia to bring Blackwell architecture to Geforce NOW in September
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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.

Nvidia RTX and DLSS 4 coming to more big games and apps
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Nvidia claims over 175 DLSS 4 games and apps available

As a part of its big Gamescom 2025 reveal, Nvidia has announced that DLSS 4 is now available in over 175 games and apps, and both ray tracing and DLSS 4 support will be coming soon to some big titles like Resident Evil Requiem, Phantom Blade Zero, and Borderlands 4.

Nvidia bundles Borderlands 4 with Geforce RTX 50 graphics cards
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Geforce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and Geforce 5070

Nvidia has announced its latest bundle, giving a copy of the Borderlands 4 game with select Geforce RTX 50 series desktop and laptop graphics cards.

Asus teases upcoming Geforce RTX 5090 ROG MATRIX graphics card
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30th anniversary limited edition

Asus has now confirmed it will launch its next-generation ROG MATRIX graphics card, one based on the Geforce RTX 5090. The card comes as Asus' celebration for the 30th anniversary of its first graphics card.