Intel releases XeSS 2 SDK
Enters the AI upscaling race
Troubled Chipzilla has finally pulled its finger out and released the XeSS 2 SDK, hoping to claw back some relevance in the AI upscaling arms race.
MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup
Agreed to see other people
MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.
Bolt Graphics brings RISC-V to the GPU market
Hail Zeus
Bolt Graphics, a startup out of Sunnyvale, California, has announced its Zeus GPU platform, promising to thrash Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads.
Beijing boffins create chips from Bismuth
More digestible than silicon
Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a non-silicon based transistor that’s faster and more efficient than anything out there.
Nvidia’s Blackwell spin spotted
Sales not as good as claimed
Nvidia is trying to convince everyone that its shiny new RTX Blackwell cards have outsold the previous generation 2:1 in the first five weeks.
Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i
Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.
Meta training its own AI chips
RISC-V business
Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.
Broadcom might upset Nvidia’s AI applecart
Hyperscalers are where the money is at
Nvidia might be the poster child of the AI boom, but according to the Financial Times, investors betting on Broadcom have had an even sweeter ride.
Budget-friendly RTX 5050 is a bit of a snooze
Nvidia just repackaged an old card
Nvidia’s budget-friendly RTX 5050 is finally making the rounds online; from the looks of it, the card is about as exciting as a reheated cup of tea.
TSMC doing well
40 per cent revenue growth
TSMC is on a tear, raking in a staggering 39 per cent revenue growth in the first two months of 2025, largely thanks to the unrelenting demand for Nvidia’s AI chips.
