AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
Hopes devs finally look at its software stack
AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.
Microsoft forks out $30 billion on UK
Trump’s visit coincides with Nvidia, Google and others throwing cash at Britain
Software King of the World, Microsoft has promised to dump $30 billion (€28 billion) into the UK by 2028 as it tries to beef up its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
AMD promises MI450 will be no-excuses GPU
Chipmaker claims it will outgun Nvidia’s next big thing
AMD has been floundering in gaming graphics, but the outfit is talking big about its next-gen AI GPU, the MI450, which it swears will deliver “leadership performance across the board.”
Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU targets AI inferencing arms race
Rack-sized monster to crush token counts
Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.
Nvidia's RTX 5090 and RTX Pro 6000 hit with nasty bug
Can't work with virtual machines
Nvidia’s top-of-the-range Blackwell GPUs are throwing wobblies when shoved into virtual machine environments, leaving them unresponsive until the whole system gets rebooted.
Nvidia’s Blackwell racks set for 300 per cent shipment surge
Brokerages tip 60,000 units next year as Foxconn cashes in
Nvidia’s Blackwell GB300 enterprise AI systems are being churned out at a ferocious pace, with analysts forecasting shipments will triple in the third quarter.
Nvidia Geforce NOW getting Blackwell RTX upgrade next week
Geforce RTX 5080-class streaming and 17 new games
Nvidia has announced that its Geforce NOW streaming platform will be getting Blackwell RTX update on September 10th, offering Geforce RTX 5080-class power streaming from the cloud, over 2,200 new Install-to-Play titles and more, as well as 17 fresh games this month and Battlefield 6 in October.
Alibaba whips out AI chip to dodge Nvidia squeeze
China’s silicon brigade tries to fill the GPU hole with homebrew parts
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has wheeled out a shiny new AI chip, hoping to plug the silicon hole left after Nvidia was kicked in the export rules by Uncle Sam.
Nvidia shows off Blackwell GB200 and GB300 racks
Chipmaker talks modular MGX architecture and rack guts at Hot Chips 2025
Nvidia used Hot Chips 2025 to show how its Blackwell GB200 and GB300 systems are bolted together, highlighting its modular MGX platform and sprinkling in a bit of open compute virtue-signalling along the way.
China turns off Nvidia over loudmouth US trade chief
Beijing tells tech giants to dump AI chip after US boasts spark fury
The Middle Kingdom is quietly telling its top tech outfits to give up on buying the H20, a neutered AI chip from Nvidia, after a senior US official’s remarks left Beijing fuming.