Nvidia and AMD hand Trump 15 per cent of China chip revenues
Protection money
Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the Trump administration 15 per cent of revenues from their China chip sales in return for export licences.
Raja Koduri resurrects GPU dreams with startup gamble
Oxmiq aims to gut the GPU ecosystem and build it back from scratch
Intel's former GPU supreme Dalek, Raja Koduri has popped up at a new startup, Oxmiq Labs, where he plans to reinvent the entire AI GPU market with a so-called “software first” plan that seems hell-bent on killing off CUDA’s stranglehold.
Vancouver Wired for AI, Real-Time Graphics, and What’s Next
SIGGRAPH 2025 preview
World’s biggest graphics conference returns to Canada with a heavy dose of neural rendering, immersive tech—and a few surprises still under wraps.
Nvidia kicks off SIGGRAPH 2025
With inaugural RTX Rendering Day
With SIGGRAPH 2025 just around the corner, NVIDIA isn’t wasting any time promoting their upcoming inaugural RTX Rendering Day.
MSI officially launches Geforce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti EXPERT graphics cards
Aimed at creators, professionals, and advanced users
MSI has unveiled two new RTX 50 series graphics cards that will be a part of its EXPERT series, the GeForce RTX 5080 16G EXPERT and RTX 5070 Ti 16G EXPERT graphics cards.
Trump slaps 100 per cent tariff on chip imports
Offers Apple get out of jail free card
Donald Trump is back on the tariff warpath, this time threatening to slap a 100 per cent levy on all semiconductor imports unless the chips are made on US soil.
Nvidia slams idea of backdoors in AI chips
Kill switches would be a gift to hackers, not national security
Nvidia has come out swinging against the idea of embedding backdoors or kill switches in its AI hardware, calling the notion dangerous and unworkable.
China’s chip mega-merger plans stuck in limbo
Too many egos, not enough consolidation
Beijing’s dream of creating a semiconductor supergroup to take on US giants is hitting the rocks, according to a report by the Financial Times.
AMD’s AI chip hype falls flat
Santa Clara outfit fails to impress investors with sluggish data centre gains
AMD fluffed its lines again in the AI chip race, posting second-quarter data centre revenue that barely moved the needle despite the market frenzy around artificial intelligence.
Beijing gives Nvidia a kicking over H20 chip
Claims of tracking tech and remote shutdown
Nvidia’s charm offensive in China has taken a nosedive after Beijing summoned the firm to explain what it claimed were “serious security issues” buried in its made-for-China AI chips.
