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.
Lisuan Tech targets high-end GPUs
Chinese upstart eyes Nvidia and AMD’s lunch with 24GB card
A Chinese outfit few have heard of is making a bold lunge into the high-end GPU market.
Nvidia's H20 chips hit red tape gridlock in US-China shuffle
Licensing logjam stalls AI GPU shipments despite lifted ban
Nvidia might have dodged a US ban on its H20 AI chips for China, but it’s entangled in a licensing quagmire so deep it’s putting the brakes on exports.
ARM wants to build is own silicon
SoftBank-backed firm taking on AMD and Intel
ARM is apparently tired of flogging CPU blueprints and wants to play with the big boys by building its own chips. That means going head-to-head with Troubled Chipzilla and AMD in the high-stakes silicon game.
Microsoft hits $4 Trillion market cap
Redmond rides GenAI gold rush
Software King of the world, Microsoft's share price briefly cracked the $4 trillion mark on Thursday, making it only the second outfit in history to do so, before it promptly slid back to $3.96 trillion.
