Anton Shilov

Anton Shilov

Contributing 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

Deepseek logo on an iPhone

DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware — after multiple failures, R2 training to switch back to Nvidia hardware while Ascend GPUs handle inference

By Anton Shilov published

DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.

Ryzen 9000 CPU

AMD's desktop PC market share hits a new high as server gains slow down — Intel now only outsells AMD 2:1, down from 9:1 a few years ago

By Anton Shilov published

AMD reached record desktop CPU market share and posted strong server gains in early 2025, while its mobile CPU position weakened, but revenue shares across all segments hit new highs.

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Intel

Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his Cabinet to discuss company's future this week, make proposals next week — Intel responds

By Anton Shilov last updated

Becoming friends?

Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

The pains of Intel: From CPU design and process technology challenges to internal clashes and political pressure

By Anton Shilov published

News Analysis But is its survival in question?

Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 racks and servers

Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get 15% of related revenue, China firms would get access to far faster GPUs

By Anton Shilov published

Chinese companies rejoice?

Intel

Intel's chairman reportedly tried to sell fabs to TSMC, CEO Lip-Bu Tan opposed

By Anton Shilov published

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's push to retain in-house chip manufacturing has put him at odds with chairman Frank Yeary and other directors who explored spinning off or selling Intel Foundry to TSMC.

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Intel

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump allegations in letter: 'I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards'

By Anton Shilov published

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan defended his record and pledged cooperation with the U.S. government in a letter to employees after President Trump called for his resignation citing conflict of interests.

Silicon Motion

Silicon Motion announces new devices at Future of Memory and Storage summit 2025: PCIe 6.0 SSDs, 256 / 512 TB drives, and next-gen 16K LDPC

By Anton Shilov published

News Analysis Bigger drives, a new controller, and a larger LDPC enabled by new tech.

Tesla D1 Dojo Supercomputer Chip

Tesla scraps custom Dojo wafer-level processor initiative, dismantles team — Musk to lean on Nvidia and AMD more

By Anton Shilov published

Set to increase reliance on AMD and Nvidia hardware for now.

Silicon Motion

Silicon Motion gives a glimpse of its PCIe 6.0 controller for client SSDs — 25+ GB/s sequential reads, 3.5 million random IOPS, coming 2028-2029

By Anton Shilov published

Silicon Motion previews its next-gen Neptune SSD controller for client PCs, featuring a PCIe 6.0 x4 interface and over 25 GB/s read speeds, but mass production is only set for 2028.

TSMC

TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos'

By Anton Shilov published

TSMC is probing an alleged leak of 2nm process integration images to Japan's Rapidus, though the data's content, impact, and Rapidus's involvement remain uncertain.

Apple

Apple reportedly set to invest $100 billion into the production of 'critical components' in the U.S. to avoid tariffs on iPhones — domestic commitments reach $600 billion

By Anton Shilov published

Apple will reportedly invest an extra $100 billion in U.S. manufacturing —raising its total domestic commitment to $600 billion — in an effort to avoid steep iPhone tariffs.

China

China semiconductor 'megamerger' strategy reportedly stalling — new report says high-level merger plans to strengthen domestic chip industry face multiple headwinds

By Anton Shilov published

Despite China’s push to consolidate its semiconductor sector into a few strong players, efforts have largely stalled due to valuation conflicts, political obstacles, and technological gaps.

Samsung

DDR4 production expected to continue until 2026 — Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron will continue serving industry clients for longer

By Anton Shilov published

News Analysis Major DRAM makers are phasing out DDR4 production from late 2025, as they shift to DDR5, but supply will remain available for niche applications for years to come.

Micron

Inside the future of 3D NAND: The roadmap to 500 layers

By Anton Shilov published

Premium The 3D NAND industry is rapidly advancing toward 500-layer stacks and 4800 MT/s interfaces by 2027, enabling denser, faster, and more efficient storage.

HBM roadmaps for Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix: To HBM4 and beyond

By Anton Shilov published

Premium We've compiled a full roadmap of HBM memory for SK hynix, Micron, and Samsung, including HBM3, HBM3E, HBM4, and HBM4E.

Nvidia

Nvidia enterprise GPU and CPU roadmaps: Rubin, Rubin Ultra, Feynman, and silicon photonics

By Anton Shilov published

Premium Systems are planned to be up to 14 times faster than NVL72 by 2027.

AMD Instinct chips

AMD posts record $7.685 billion revenue despite massive inventory charge — $800 million MI308 write-off not enough to stop biggest ever quarter

By Anton Shilov published

Best quarter ever.

PCI-SIG

PCI-SIG announces PCIe 8.0 spec with twice the bandwidth — 1TB/s of peak bandwidth, 256 GT/s per lane, and a possible new connector

By Anton Shilov published

PCI-SIG has officially begun developing PCIe 8.0, doubling bandwidth to 256 GT/s while tackling signal integrity limits over copper with protocol upgrades.

Intel's Raja Koduri

Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri's new startup leverages RISC-V and targets CUDA workloads — Oxmiq Labs supports running Python-based CUDA applications unmodified on non-Nvidia hardware

By Anton Shilov published

Raja Koduri's Oxmiq Labs develops RISC-V–based GPU IP and a hardware-agnostic software stack.

Western Digital

Sandisk unveils colossal new 256TB SSD with new UltraQLC flash memory — enterprise-grade SSDs for high density storage also come in 128TB

By Anton Shilov published

Sandisk introduces its UltraQLC 256TB NVMe SSDs with direct QLC NAND writes for hyperscale AI and cloud workloads.

Bolt Graphics

GPU startup's cherry-picked path tracing test shows 13x edge over Nvidia's RTX 5090 — Bolt Graphics' Zeus 4c impresses, but key performance questions remain

By Anton Shilov published

Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPUs outperform Nvidia's RTX 5090 by up to 13x in internal ray-tracing tests, though real-world gains remain unknown.

Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

Three senior execs to retire from Intel Foundry, including respected semiconductor veteran Gary Patton

By Anton Shilov published

Three senior Intel Foundry executives are retiring as part of a major leadership reshuffle amid restructuring and uncertainty over the 14A process.

Apple

Apple's Tim Cook 'very open to M&A that accelerates our road map' for AI' — company increasing spending on AI initiatives, reorganizing teams to address expansion

By Anton Shilov published

Apple is playing catch-up with AI

Microsoft

Microsoft follows Nvidia's lead, surpasses $4 trillion market capitalization on soaring demand for cloud services, multi-front AI endeavors

By Anton Shilov published

AI and Azure drive Microsoft's market cap.

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