Nvidia boss appears to go all MAGA
Huang praises Trump, touts US-made GPUs and signs a billion-dollar buddy list
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang took to the stage in Washington for the company’s first-ever technology conference in the US capital and turned the whole thing into something a little more MAGA than before.
Nvidia wants to kill off AC power in AI data centres
Company pushes 800 VDC to feed power-hungry GPUs and cut copper
Nvidia has admitted that alternating current is no longer up to the job in AI data centres where inferencing surges and bandwidth spikes are battering power infrastructure.
Qualcomm lobs AI chips at Nvidia’s throne
Snapdragon slinger gets Humain and Saudi cash to back its first data centre silicon
Qualcomm saw its shares spike by 20 per cent after it revealed its first AI-focused data centre chips in a desperate attempt to chip away at Nvidia’s vice grip on the market.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 FE “worst GPU design ever”
Repair specialist says Nvidia's flagship card is a modder’s nightmare
Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been labelled a disaster by repair experts after a failed attempt to add water cooling rendered the GPU completely unfixable.
Intel's shares leap as turnaround gains steam
Outfit still on a tightrope
Shares in Troubled Chipzilla surged after the struggling semiconductor outfit posted better than expected revenue, signalling tentative progress in its long and painful turnaround.
Anthropic nabs a million Google Cloud chips for AI
Start-up inks deal worth tens of billions to secure computing power
Anthropic has struck a deal to grab hold of one million Google Cloud chips to train and run its artificial intelligence models, tightening its bond with one of its biggest investors.
Nvidia-backed space data centres put AI in space
Starcloud plans orbiting GPU boxes claiming 100x compute and free solar juice
Nvidia's AI silicon is headed for orbit as startup Starcloud prepares to launch a data centre in space using H100 GPUs stuffed into a 60-kilogram Starcloud-1 satellite.
Micron pushes 192GB low-power DRAM
SOCAMM2 modules promise massive capacity, tiny footprint, and less power
Micron has rolled out what it claims is the industry’s beefiest low-power DRAM module, a 192GB SOCAMM2 designed for the power-hungry AI data centre crowd.
Alibaba cloud says its Aegaeon GPU system cuts Nvidia use by 82 per cent
Scheduler squeezes more work from fewer H20 accelerators
Alibaba Cloud boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having found a way to make Nvidia’s costly GPUs actually earn their keep.
NVIDIA slips in new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell SKU
With 72GB of GDDR7 ECC memory
NVIDIA has silently introduced a new version of the RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU that comes with 72GB of GDDR7 memory.