Anton Shilov

Anton Shilov

Freelance News Writer

Anton Shilov has been in the PC industry since 1990s playing games, building PCs, and writing stories about pretty much everything that relates to PCs, Macs, smartphones, tablets, and even fab equipment. Over his career, he has worked at a variety of high-ranking websites, including AnandTech, EE Times, TechRadar, X-bit labs, and now Tom's Hardware. When Anton is not reading or writing about something high-tech, he is probably watching a good movie, playing a video game, or spending time with his family.

Articles by: Anton Shilov

MaxSun

MaxSun launches MegaGamer Nvidia RTX 4070 with five fans

By Anton Shilov published

MaxSun launches another MegaGamer graphics card, this time based on GeForce RTX 4070 GPU.

Half-Life 2

32-bit Mac holdouts will find games like 'Half-Life 2' and 'Metro 2033' unplayable soon, as Valve ceases Steam support for older versions of macOS

By Anton Shilov published

Mac users can say goodbye to 32-bit games as Valve's Steam ceases support for older macOS operating systems.

Biren Technology

Blacklisted Chinese GPU developer secures $280 million in funding - Biren gets cash infusion from Guangzhou government-backed investors

By Anton Shilov published

Chinese AI processor developer Biren gets $280 million from Guangzhou government-backed investors.

Loongson

New Chinese GPU arrives to challenge Nvidia's AI dominance but falls woefully short - Loongson unveils LG200 GPGPU, up to 1 Tflops of performance per node

By Anton Shilov published

Loongson goes after scientific and AI computing with the LG200 'GPGPU' that promises up to 1 TFLOPS performance per node.

Amkor

Apple to become first customer for Amkor's $2 billion Arizona chip packaging facility

By Anton Shilov published

Amkor to build $2 billion advanced chip packaging facility in the U.S. primarily targeting Apple.

Japan

Japan sets strict rules for chip subsidy recipients in the hopes of preventing leaks to China and Russia

By Anton Shilov published

Japan wants prevent technology secret leaks from companies getting chip-related subsidies from the government.

GeForce RTX 4090

Leaker says Nvidia's RTX 4090D to use hamstrung GPU variant to comply with US export regulations, new AD102-250 die

By Anton Shilov published

Nvidia's China-specific GeForce RTX 4090D will use a cut-down AD102 GPU, according to a leak, in order to comply with U.S. export rules.

Nvidia

Nvidia CEO says the US will take 20 years to achieve chipmaking independence from China and Taiwan, despite booming fab construction and subsidies

By Anton Shilov published

Jen-Hsun Huang is skeptical about massive semiconductor projects in the U.S., saying it will take the U.S. 10 to 20 years to have independent chip manufacturing.

Nvidia

AWS and Nvidia build a supercomputer with 16,384 Superchips, Team Up for Generative AI Infrastructure

By Anton Shilov published

Amazon Web Services to offer Nvidia-powered supercomputing infrastructure for generative AI, including 65 ExaFLOPS AI supercomputer.

AWS

Amazon solidifies push into custom chips that replace Intel and AMD processors, unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers

By Anton Shilov published

Amazon revealed new Graviton4 processors for HPC and Trainium2 processors for AI workloads.

SkyWater

Chinese state owned phone maker shutters chip design unit, highlighting country's struggles in path to chipmaking independence

By Anton Shilov published

TCL no longer wants to design and produce its own display driver chips due to declining prices and tough competition.

CXMT

CXMT unveils China's first homegrown low-power memory - new LPDDR5-6400 adopted by Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi and Transsion

By Anton Shilov published

CXMT has unveiled China's first homegrown low-power memory. Xiaomi and Transsion are set to use CXMT's 12GB LPDDR5-6400 memory modules.

Nvidia Hopper H100 die shot

Nvidia's Next-Gen GPUs are rumored to be codenamed 'Rubin,' arrive in 2025

By Anton Shilov published

Nvidia is rumored to be working on 'Rubin' R100 and GR200 GPUs that are due in 2025. These will be AI and HPC focused parts.

Wafer Scale Engine 2

China could have access to the largest AI chips ever made, supercomputer with 54 million cores — US government investigates Cerebras' UAE-based partner

By Anton Shilov published

The CIA investigating whether a major AI cloud service provider, which uses Cerebras hardware, has major ties with China.

TSMC manufacturing

Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite budget crisis — billions in funding still in limbo

By Anton Shilov published

Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite a budget crisis, though Intel and Wolfspeed reportedly received firm fab funding commitments from the German government.

SK Hynix

SK Hynix pioneers revolutionary fan-out memory packaging, combining wide I/O with low cost

By Anton Shilov published

SK Hynix readies 2.5D fan-out packaging for next-gen memory that combines wide I/O with low costs and eliminates TSVs.

Apple

Fanless AirJet cooler experiment boosts MacBook Air to match MacBook Pro's performance

By Anton Shilov published

Frore's experiment with an AirJet-cooled MacBook Air shows it can perform like a MacBook Pro.

Nvidia Hopper H100 GPU and DGX systems

Nvidia sold half a million H100 AI GPUs in Q3 thanks to Meta, Facebook — lead times stretch up to 52 weeks: Report

By Anton Shilov published

Nvidia sold half a million H100 AI GPUs in Q3 thanks to Meta, Facebook, says research firm Omdia, with lead times stretching up to 52 weeks.

Mask

New chip crunch looming? Booming demand from Chinese chipmakers causing shortage of critical photomask element

By Anton Shilov published

Rising demand from Chinese chip designers is fueling a global shortage of photomasks, a critical component to chipmaking.

AMD

HBM4 memory to double speeds in 2026 — 2048-bit interface to revolutionize artificial intelligence and HPC markets: Report

By Anton Shilov published

HBM4 to revolutionize memory market, says TrendForce.

Graphcore

'GPUs still rule' asserts graphics guru Raja Koduri in response to custom AI silicon advocate

By Anton Shilov published

GPU veteran Raja Koduri claims that the flexibility of GPUs means they are not going to be replaced by custom silicon any time soon.

Nvidia Hopper H100 die shot

Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal NXP's chipmaking IP: Report

By Anton Shilov published

A Chinese-linked hacker group maintained covert access to NXP for over two years, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2020.

v-color

Ryzen Threadripper 7000 gets even faster overclockable memory — DDR5-7800 RDIMMs Coming

By Anton Shilov published

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 platform set to get ultra-fast DDR5 memory modules with ECC from G.Skill, Kingston, and v-color

Intel Meteor Lake

Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake GPU will have new Xe-LPG Plus Architecture with XMX

By Anton Shilov published

Intel's XMX is coming to integrated Xe-LPG Plus GPUs starting with the Arrow Lake generation.

Ryzen Mobile CPU

AMD's Zen 4-Based Ryzen 8000 CPUs Listed, Hawk Point breaks cover

By Anton Shilov published

Hardware leaker finds a list of Zen 4-based Ryzen 8000 CPUs for laptops with 28W and 45W TDP.

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