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Chip stocks rally after Trump flip-flops
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Tuesday, 25 March 2025 11:24

Chip stocks rally after Trump flip-flops

Tariffs aren’t a tech bro’s best friend

Chipmakers had a rare moment of joy this week after reports suggested that Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump might not slap the semiconductor industry with another round of wallet-crushing tariffs on 2 April.

Ex-Intel boss trades chips for church chatbots
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Still living on a prayer

Once tasked with rescuing Troubled Chipzilla from its decade-long spiral into mediocrity, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has now found his true calling.

Western chips still powering Russian missiles
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Loopholes 

Three years into Russia's “definitely-not-an-invasion” invasion of Ukraine, it turns out the West’s sanctions regime is as watertight as a colander.

Gelsinger claims Nvidia’s AI GPUs are overpriced
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Jensen just got lucky on AI

It appears that former troubled Chipzilla CEO Pat Gelsinger is still upset about Nvidia’s AI dominance, taking a swipe at Jensen Huang’s pricing strategy and implying that Nvidia’s meteoric rise in AI was more a matter of luck than strategy.

Jensen Huang left out of Intel buyout gossip
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Not even on the guest list

Nvidia’s leather-jacketed overlord, Jensen Huang, has confirmed that his company was not approached about purchasing a stake in the troubled chipmaker Intel.

Top fabless chipmakers rake in $249.8 billion
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Half of this went to Nvidia

The semiconductor industry in 2024 was an all-you-can-eat buffet for AI chipmakers, with the top ten fabless firms raking in a cool $249.8 billion—nearly half of which was trousered by Nvidia.

Intel releases XeSS 2 SDK
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:26

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.

Wall Street’s mixed reaction to Lip-Bu Tan’s appointment
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Intel shares up 12 per cent

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street had mixed reactions to Tan’s coronation as Chipzilla’s new King.

Beijing boffins create chips from Bismuth
Published in PC Hardware


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.

Intel hires Lip-Bu Tan for new CEO
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Thursday, 13 March 2025 08:59

Intel hires Lip-Bu Tan for new CEO


Needs quick turn around before Celine Dion starts singing

Troubled Chipzilla has once again shuffled the deck chairs on its sinking semiconductor ship, bringing in industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest CEO to attempt a turnaround.