Workaround sees Tencent and others tap into Nvidia Blackwell chips

While Blackwell chips remain off-limits for direct export to China, Chinese AI heavyweights have found an unexpected loophole to access Nvidia's latest silicon.

Data centre demand and HBM sales send revenues soaring while refits bite consumers

Micron Technology smashed expectations with record quarterly results as AI-driven memory demand powered revenues higher, margins expanded sharply, and data centre sales reshaped the business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

$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.

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.