Trump's 25 per cent cut of Nvidia sales is "nuts"
Only helps China
US President Donald Trump's cunning plan to get a 25 per cent cut of Nvidia's AI chip sales to China by allowing the outfit to sell behind the bamboo curtain has been dismissed as nuts.
Nvidia cooks up chip-tracking tech
GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets
Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.
Nvidia slams the door on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
Game-ready drivers stop at 590
Nvidia has done the deed and cut game-ready driver support for its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta cards, leaving even the once-mighty GTX 1080 Ti staring at a future of security patches and not much else.
MediaTek spins TPU gold into a sharper Dimensity 9600
Google’s Ironwood finally gives Nvidia a real worry
Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 has rattled the AI hardware world by emerging as the first ASIC able to trouble Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and spark scrutiny.
Nvidia shrugs off market jitters with roaring AI sales
A blowout quarter sends investors scrambling for their calculators
Nvidia lit up the market with a quarterly surge that made the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street forget their nerves about runaway AI spending.
Nvidia smokes peace pipe with Anthropic
One-gigawatt Claude commitment shows how frantic the AI gold rush has become
Nvidia has finally smoked a peace pipe with Anthropic after years of sniping, proving that the AI boom is now so ravenous it can turn rivals into drinking buddies.
RTX Pro 6000 snaps itself in half during a move
$10,000 down the loo
A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.
Tachyum boasts of a 6GHz with 1,024 cores
Outfit promises cosmic performance from a chip that exists only on paper.
Tachyum has rolled out fresh specs for its upcoming Prodigy Universal Processor and the sheet reads like someone let a marketing intern loose with a calculator.
China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.
A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.
Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI
Huang warns West is stuck in pessimism
US tech giant Nvidia’s supreme dalek Jensen Huang reckons China is pulling ahead in the artificial intelligence race while the Land of the Free is stuck spinning its wheels in regulatory sludge.