AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
Flaming expensive
More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.
AMD cosies up to Rapt AI to claw into Nvidia’s turf
Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry
Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.
Micron jacks up the prices
Chipmaker banks on AI boom
Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.
Nvidia mulls Chipzilla deal for gaming GPU fabs
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.
Trump blacklists more tech firms
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.
AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 series explodes out of the gate
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.
KLEVV brings new DDR5 memory lineup
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.
Chip stocks rally after Trump flip-flops
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.
Oracle buys 30,000 AMD AI chips
Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia
Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.
Top fabless chipmakers rake in $249.8 billion
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.
