
AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
Reckons it can still slug it out with Nvidia's Blackwell
AMD has decided it no longer wants to be the budget option in AI hardware and is slapping a 70 per cent price hike on its high-end Instinct MI350 AI accelerator.

Nvidia may launch RTX 50 SUPER GPUs in time for Christmas
Holiday splash with VRAM-heavy refresh
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Nvidia may launch RTX 50 SUPER GPUs in time for Christmas

China’s MTT S90 GPU beats RTX 4060 in gaming tests
Moore Threads closes gap on Nvidia thanks to driver fixes
China’s GPU scene is no longer just a sideshow. Moore Threads' latest card, the MTT S90, has been benchmarked and managed to give Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 a bloody nose in several tests.

AI chips face energy crisis as startups take on Nvidia
Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives
Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.

Samsung gets $16.5 billion chip deal lifeline from Tesla
TSMC rival finally gets a win in foundry fight
Samsung Electronics has signed a 22.8 trillion won (about $16.5 billion) chip foundry contract with what it calls a "global company" which the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are convinced is Tesla.

Nvidia gives Micron SOCAMM gig
Memory market braces for shake‑up
Nvidia is moving to disrupt the memory market again, planning to deploy between 600,000 and 800,000 SOCAMM modules in 2025 and handed the entire contract to Micron.

Nvidia’s banned AI chips flood China’s black market
More than a $1bn of restricted B200 processors slipped through in three months
Washington’s plan to restrain China’s AI ambitions is already failing as more than $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s high-end AI chips entered China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened export curbs.

Zotac shows new Geforce RTX 5090 ArcticStorm AIO graphics card
Running a full-sized 360mm liquid-cooling AIO
Zotac has announced the new ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5090 ARCTICSTORM AIO, a liquid-cooled Geforce RTX 5090 graphics card that features a full-sized 360 mm radiator.

Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 announcement comes on August 5th
Same clocks but less memory
The upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 will launch on August 5th, according to leaks coming from Chinese media. As detailed earlier, Nvidia is bypassing restrictions by keeping the same clocks but reducing the memory down to 24GB.

TSMC's US fabs cost Big Tech more
AMD and Nvida forced to swallow higher prices
Getting cutting-edge chips out of TSMC’s US fabs is proving far pricier than sticking with its tried-and-tested Taiwan plants, but big tech doesn’t have much choice right now.