NVIDIA has reportedly started full production of its Rubin AI chips well ahead of its original schedule. The move accelerates its already blistering product cadence as it aims to supply major cloud partners by the second half of 2026.
AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI Max+ lineup and adding a faster Ryzen 7 9850X3D gaming CPU. However, the company is touting massive AI performance leaps from its updated ROCm software stack as the bigger breakthrough.
In a desperate move to secure memory chips, Apple executives are reportedly booking long-term hotel stays in South Korea. They’re negotiating with Samsung and SK hynix as DRAM prices have surged 230% since early 2025. The shortage is impacting the entire tech industry.
South Korean startup FuriosaAI is gearing up to mass-produce its RNGD AI chip this month. The company, founded in 2017 by ex-Samsung engineer June Paik, claims the chip can run Meta’s Llama model at twice the power efficiency of Nvidia’s top GPUs. After turning down an acquisition offer from Meta, t
The White House has ordered the unwinding of a deal for HieFo Corp. to purchase chip assets from Emcore. The move follows a Cfius review and highlights ongoing tensions over critical tech.
Chinese AI chip designer Biren Technology has raised $717 million in a hot Hong Kong IPO. The listing comes as Beijing pours billions into homegrown tech to counter US restrictions.
An extreme overclock pushed an MSI Ventus RTX 5090 to a staggering 1350 watts, far beyond its 575W rating. The system shut down thanks to a thermal protection feature in an ASRock PG-1300G PSU, preventing a full connector meltdown, though the GPU still showed heat damage.
TSMC secured a crucial annual export license from the US Commerce Department for its facilities in Nanjing, China. This allows the chipmaker to continue importing American equipment without individual vendor approvals, keeping its mature-node production lines online.
Nvidia just made its largest-ever licensing deal, spending $20 billion on AI chip startup Groq. Analysts see it as a direct move to bolster its position against Google’s competing TPU technology in the critical AI inference market.
Samsung is planning a major shift away from AMD graphics cores. According to a new report, the company aims to debut its own custom GPU architecture with the Exynos 2800 chipset in 2027, which would power the Galaxy S28 smartphone series. This move is driven by a desire for tighter AI and software i
