
Trump bends on Nvidia chip sales to China
Beijing visit by CEO prompts rare reversal
Nvidia has wrung a rare concession out of the Trump administration, securing permission to flog its H20 artificial intelligence chip in China after a tense few months of uncertainty.

Nvidia GPUs vulnerable to Rowhammer without ECC
Canadian boffins show bit-flip attack on GDDR6
If you're using a powerful Nvidia GPU and haven't bothered with error correction, you might be playing with fire.

Pants Nvidia RTX 5060 tops Steam charts
Low performance but laptops keep flying off shelves
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 may have landed with a thud in late May, but the budget Blackwell GPU is now topping the Steam charts anyway, thanks almost entirely to its laptop variant.

Nvidia to launch stripped down AI chip for China
Chipmaker sidesteps US export bans with a neutered Blackwell
Nvidia is plotting to flog a China-specific AI chip in September. It's a lobotomised version of the Blackwell RTX Pro 6000, tweaked just enough to duck under the US's tightened export controls.

Nvidia hits $4 trillion and shows Apple the door
AI chip maker's epic rise leaves the competition in the dust
The AI chip peddler Nvidia just became the first company in history to tip over the $4 trillion valuation mark, elbowing past the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Microsoft on the Nasdaq on 10 July.

FinalWire releases new AIDA64 v7.70
Preliminary support for AMD Zen 6 and other improvements
FinalWire has released the latest version of AIDA64 diagnostic and benchmarking software, AIDA64 v7.70, bringing preliminary support for some upcoming products, improved support for CPUs and GPUs, new benchmarks, and fixes.

Wall Street stays cautious on AMD AI momentum
Analyst flags inventory worries despite new GPU launches
One Wall Street voice isn’t sold on AMD’s AI GPU push just yet. Trust Securities analyst William Stein has maintained his ‘Hold’ rating on AMD shares, citing a sizeable stockpile of unsold chips.

Geopolitics strangling AI server growth
Tariff fears and supply chain turmoil hit forecasts despite big tech spending spree
AI servers may be the backbone of today’s tech boom, but global shipment growth forecasts are slipping thanks to geopolitical headaches and tariff threats.

Samsung braces for worst quarter
US chip curbs and HBM3E delays dent profit forecast
Samsung Electronics stunned markets by forecasting a 56 per cent plunge in second‑quarter operating profit to Won 4.6 trn (€3.3 bn, which is its weakest performance in six quarters.

CPU-Z 2.16 update brings in RDNA 4, RTX 50 series and Zen 5
Hardware tool plays catch-up as GPU and CPU launches pile up
CPU-Z has rolled out version 2.16 of its well-worn hardware tool, and this one lands with support for a host of newly released GPUs and CPUs.