UK blocking ARM and Nvidia deal
National security reasons
The UK is considering blocking a takeover of Arm by Nvidia due to potential risks to national security.
EC needs at least six months to decide
North Americans always wonder how much vacation Europeans take, and it looks like this behavior will affect Nvidia's attempt to acquire ARM for $40 billion. It is starting to look like this acquisition will take much longer than Jensen promised, and the European Commission regulatory body has to be very concerned about the potential Nvidia antitrust position. The matter has been addressed before.
DLSS support for Red Dead Redemption 2 as well
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 471.41 WHQL driver, which is both a Game Ready driver release as well as adds support for Windows 11 OS, CUDA 11.4, and more.
Cambridge-1 switched on
Speeding up disease treatment
A British supercomputer, backed by some of Nvidia’s hottest, sorry finest, chips has been switched on and is busy making the process of preventing, diagnosing and treating disease better, faster and cheaper.
UK flogs its largest fab to the Chinese
At least the Europeans didn't get it
The UK's largest chip producer, Newport Wafer Fab, is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia for around $87 million next week. The deal comes shortly after the crown jewel of the UK tech industry, ARM, agreed to be acquired by US chip giant Nvidia for $40 billion.
Nvidia invests $100 million in UK supercomputer
Showing commitment to ARM operations
Nvidia is spending at least $100 million on a supercomputer in the United Kingdom in a move to show the UK authorities how committed it is to the country now that it wants to own Arm.
Nvidia rolls out Geforce 466.77 Game Ready driver
Geforce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti support
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 466.77 Game Ready driver with support for the new Geforce RTX 3080 Ti and Geforce RTX 3070 TI graphics cards, as well as adds optimizations and enhancements for various games.
Coming on June 3rd at $1,199 and June 10th at $599
Nvidia has officially announced the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards that will be available on June 3rd at $1,199 and June 10th at $599.
Nvidia DLSS and Raytracing comes to eight new games
DOOM Eternal looks impressive
Nvidia has announced that its DLSS and Raytracing tech is coming to eight new games, pushing the number of RTX titles to over 130.
Nvidia becomes an IaaS
SuperPOD saves the day
Nvidia has become an IaaS provider for its own DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers.