Intel goes begging to Apple
Hopes Job’s Mob can bail it out of financial quagmire
Troubled Chipzilla is reportedly rattling the tin at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, hoping the iPhone maker might toss a few billion its way to keep the lights on at Intel Foundry Services.
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.
Micron flexes "fastest" HBM4 DRAM
HBM4e push
Micron has started throwing its weight around in the memory arena again, claiming that its new HBM4 samples are not only the fastest around but sip power better than anything rivals have to offer.
Nvidia throws $100 bn at OpenAI
Chipmaker plans to bank roll a glut of AI data centres
Nvidia has decided to fling up to $100 billion at OpenAI in what is being dressed up as a grand AI infrastructure partnership.
Former Intel board members call for Chipzilla to go private
US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant
Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.
ASUS RTX 5070 dips below MSRP
Nvidia price slide continues
While Nvidia's RTX 50 series finally has enough cards in the wild, prices are dipping with some falling below their original MSRP.
Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split
Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, making it a number two shareholder
Deal will bring RTX GPU chiplets to Intel x86 SoCs
Nvidia and Intel have announced a "collaboration" to develop multiple generations of datacenter and PC consumer products. Tucked in the PR announcement is that Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a price of $23.28. Both CEOs will conduct a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time).
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.