Dutch kitmaker hopes for growth as chip industry scrambles for AI

ASML, the Dutch giant that builds the world’s priciest chip kit, says rising tariffs have muddied its 2025-2026 outlook, even as it clings to a bullish full-year forecast.

$299 for RTX 5060 and $379/$429 for RTX 5060 Ti 8GB/16GB

Nvidia has officially annnounced its latest Geforce RTX 5060 series graphics cards, starting with Geforce RTX 5060 Ti, which will be available at $379 for 8GB and $429 for 16GB versions and available as of today, April 16th, while the RTX 5060 8GB graphics card will be coming in May, priced at $299.

RDNA 4 continues steamrolling as NVIDIA struggles with stock, pricing

AMD's RDNA 4 cards are on an absolute tear, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT outselling NVIDIA’s RTX 5080 by a staggering ten to one margin at MindFactory — one of the EU’s biggest component retailers.

Chipmaker stumbles as trade war with China tightens its grip

Chipmaker Nvidia has been slapped with a $5.5 billion (€5.2 billion) financial gut punch after the US government demanded export licences for its H20 AI chip sales to China and Hong Kong.

Over a few years, investment worth 500B

Nvidia is working with partners to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space: facilities in Arizona will build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips, while those in Texas will assemble the AI supercomputers. Jensen Huang is bringing some jobs back.

Blackwell factories to take root in Arizona and Texas

Nvidia is yanking its AI chip and supercomputer production back to the US, planning to churn out its Blackwell architecture entirely within American borders for the first time.

Frontier supercomputer flexes Instinct MI250X muscle

AMD ran a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using its Instinct MI250X accelerators and EPYC processors on the Frontier supercomputer, slicing runtimes from nearly 40 hours to just 90 minutes -- more than 25 times faster.

Showing 25 per cent gains

Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has leaked again, this time in synthetic benchmark results that suggest a decent generational uplift—if not quite enough to threaten the RTX 5070.

Will Fab Nvidia chip for Switch 3

Chipzilla may be crawling through market muck, but according to the dark satanic rumour mill it's just landed a big order.

Volatility, but automation’s future looks bulletproof

The tariffs crisis might be a migraine for many, but it's opening some tasty new doors for the AI, robotics and automation sector.