Gigabyte packs RTX 5050 into a tiny frame
Low-profile triple-fan card fits small cases without sweating
Gigabyte has quietly flung out its low-profile take on the RTX 5050, cramming three fans into a card that measures just 182mm and doesn’t scream for attention.
Nvidia sharpens its claws for a cloud coup
Cloud giants may regret arming the AI kingpin
Cloud computing has been a licence to print money for Amazon.com, Microsoft and Google but now the gravy train faces a fresh threat from AI cloud specialists and Nvidia.
Nvidia tops global value charts
Shares soar past Microsoft
Nvidia has soared to a $3.77 trillion market cap, overtaking Microsoft after a 4.3 per cent rise in its share price, capping a dramatic turnaround from earlier setbacks this year.
DeepSeek’s tech fuelling China’s military
Avoiding US export controls
A senior US official has accused DeepSeek of aiding the PRC’s military and intelligence operations by using Southeast Asian shell companies to sidestep US semiconductor export controls.
Nvidia's RTX 5050 is here, but it's not rocking any boats
2560 cores, 8GB RAM and just enough to call it an upgrade
Nvidia has finally stuck the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU on its website, and while it’s not breaking any records, it’s clearly angling for the sweet spot of entry-level gamers who fancy a whiff of Blackwell architecture without torching their wallets.
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU launches
Debuts in China with GDDR7 and 10 per cent uplift over RTX 4050
Nvidia has kicked off its RTX 50 series laptop lineup with the official release of the GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU, bringing incremental improvements over the previous generation without shaking things up too much.
DeepSeek accused of aiding Chinese military while dodging US chip bans
AI darling used shell firms and backend routes to access banned Nvidia tech
A senior US official has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of supporting China’s military and intelligence services, while using shell companies and regional data centres to skirt around US export controls on advanced semiconductors.
Intel shows off flashy graphics at SIGGRAPH
Flaunts trillion-triangle jungle demo and AI denoiser on ARC B580
Intel took to SIGGRAPH and HPG 2025 to shout about the graphical wonders its latest GPUs can now pull off.
SK hynix gets Nvidia’s HBM4 gig
Beats Samsung and Micron
SK hynix has pulled ahead of its memory rivals by bagging NVIDIA’s first HBM4 orders, giving the South Korean chipmaker a premium position for the launch of Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.
AMD gets the Xbox gig
Next-gen Xbox could get a Windows makeover
AMD and Microsoft have joined forces to cook up the next generation of Xbox consoles, but the latest teaser video suggests this time it might not just be about silicon.
