Intel’s 18A node may become more than just internal salvation

Nvidia is eyeing Troubled Chipzilla’s foundry business to manufacture gaming GPUs—marking a potential inflexion point for Intel’s battered but still-breathing manufacturing arm, according to GuruFocus.

Putting the screws on Intel, Nvidia, and other chipmakers

Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s administration has dusted off its national security megaphone again and added another 80 companies and organisations to the US export blacklist.

Availability faceplants immediately

AMD’s Lisa Su is popping champagne corks this month after the Radeon RX 9000 graphics cards sold like hotcakes — 10 times more units than their predecessors, and all in the first week.

New colors, lower latency, and AMD optimizations

KLEVV has announced new updates to its DDR5 Gaming/OC memory lineup, including new color options for the FIT V and BOLT V series, enhanced performance with lower latency SKUs, and new "Optimized for AMD" kits in its DDR5 OC lineup.

Tariffs aren’t a tech bro’s best friend

Chipmakers had a rare moment of joy this week after reports suggested that Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump might not slap the semiconductor industry with another round of wallet-crushing tariffs on 2 April.

Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia   

Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.

Half of this went to Nvidia

The semiconductor industry in 2024 was an all-you-can-eat buffet for AI chipmakers, with the top ten fabless firms raking in a cool $249.8 billion—nearly half of which was trousered by Nvidia.

Claims it is available  

AMD has declared that it has sorted out all the supply issues with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D  -- arguably the best gaming chip on the market.

Enters the AI upscaling race

Troubled Chipzilla has finally pulled its finger out and released the XeSS 2 SDK, hoping to claw back some relevance in the AI upscaling arms race.

Extreme speed and large capacity kits

G.Skill has announced a couple of new DDR5 memory kits aimed at the AMD platform, including an extreme-speed DDR5-8000 48GB kit and a large-capacity DDR5-6000 192GB kit.