Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU launches
Debuts in China with GDDR7 and 10 per cent uplift over RTX 4050
Nvidia has kicked off its RTX 50 series laptop lineup with the official release of the GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU, bringing incremental improvements over the previous generation without shaking things up too much.
Canonical and Intel scrap GPU mitigations
Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero
Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent.
PCIe 7.0 spec screams ahead of reality
Blistering speeds for kit you won’t own this decade
PCIe connectivity is moving ahead at full tilt, with a new spec already outlined for PCIe 7.0. Trouble is, we’re still mostly faffing about with PCIe 5.0, and PCIe 6.0 is barely out of the gate.
EVGA boards choke on RTX 50 GPUs
Users resort to tape and prayer
Users of EVGA motherboards are discovering that their once-trusted gear is now allergic to Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series graphics cards.
GPU market stumbles as Discrete GPU penetration flattens
Jon Peddie blames Trump trade chaos for slowdown
Global PC graphics market took a knock in the first quarter of 2025, with GPU shipments sliding to 68.8 million units, down 12 per cent from the previous quarter, according to the latest data from Jon Peddie Research.
TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter
All roads lead to TSMC
The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.
Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock
Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.
Chipzilla suffers security fails across CPUs, GPUs, and gaming gear
Intel’s Core Ultra, Arc graphics, and gaming software infected with fresh bugs
Troubled Chipzilla just added another chapter to its ever-growing “How Not to Secure Your Silicon” anthology. This time it’s not just the CPUs taking the heat, its Arc GPUs and even its gaming software have joined the bug bonanza.
AMD's next-gen UDNA GPU leaks
New GFX13 architecture sneaks into the spotlight
AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture has leaked all over the web, and it looks like the chipmaker is ready to ditch RDNA for something it is either calling UDNA or RDNA 5, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Nvidia hikes GPU prices
Even before the scalpers get their paws on them
Nvidia is jacking up prices across almost its entire product line to keep its profits fat while tariffs and soaring manufacturing costs hammer the business.