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Nvidia slams the door on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
Published in Graphics


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.

Nvidia insists the AI gravy train won’t derail any time soon
Published in News


Shrugs off bubble talk while bragging about Rubin 

Nvidia is trying to calm the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street again, this time with its chief bean-counter insisting that fears of an AI bubble are nonsense.

Micron kills off Crucial because AI giants pay far more
Published in PC Hardware


DIY RAM buyers lose out as hyperscalers hoover up every wafer in sight

Micron has decided that flogging low-margin RAM to ordinary punters is no longer worth the candle and will axe its Crucial consumer brand in 2026 after 29 years.

PC makers bleed cash as AI giants hoard memory supplies
Published in PC Hardware


Shrinking margins force next year’s machines towards painful price hikes.

Global tech titans are gorging on DRAM and flash to feed their AI obsessions, leaving the humble PC market to scrap for leftovers as unit prices rocket.

AWS grabs Nvidia gear to muscle into the big AI leagues
Published in Cloud


Amazon arms its cloud with chip tech while rivals circle.

Amazon’s AWS outfit is strapping Nvidia’s prized NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 chip as it tries to lure heavyweight AI customers onto its cloud turf.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 does well on Steam Hardware Survey
Published in Graphics


Passes GeForce RTX 4070 with 2.23 percent

NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 5070 has now passed the Ada-based RTX 4070 in the latest Steam Hardware Survey, making it one of the top-placed RTX 50 series graphics cards.

NVIDIA DLSS comes to more games, including Where Winds Meet
Published in Graphics


Giving away ARC Raiders-themed GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA has added a few more games to its DLSS list, including Where Winds Meet and Forest Doesn't Care. It is also giving away a custom-wrapped, ARC Raiders-themed RTX 5090 graphics card as part of The Season of RTX.

MediaTek spins TPU gold into a sharper Dimensity 9600
Published in Graphics


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.

Intel finally manage to reach 1 percent of discrete GPU market share
Published in Graphics


While NVIDIA still reigns supreme with 92% of market share 


According to the latest Q3 2025 discrete GPU market share report from Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA is still holding the biggest piece of the discrete GPU market share, although it has lost 1.2 percent in the last quarter. On the other hand, Intel has managed to increase its share, finally hitting 1 percent, while AMD got up to 7 percent.

Chinese firms get their Nvidia fix in Southeast Asia
Published in AI


AI chip is full of holes

Chinese tech behemoths are hauling their prized AI models overseas to gorge on Nvidia’s finest chips while pretending everything is above board.