Articles by 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

TSMC sues former executive over defection to Intel, says it's highly likely he stole trade secrets — chipmaker claims Wei-Jen Lo broke non-disclosure and non-compete agreements

By Anton Shilov published 25 November 25

TSMC initiates legal action against Wei-Jen Lo, who retired from TSMC this summer, signed a non-compete agreement, but subsequently joined Intel as Executive Vice President.

Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users

By Anton Shilov last updated 21 November 25

Dell and HP are shipping many entry-level and midrange business laptops with HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding intentionally disabled, likely to avoid rising codec royalty costs.

The Panther stalks: Intel’s Panther Lake CPUs set to take off in Oregon, company reveals, and cutting-edge 18A process is on track

By Anton Shilov published 21 November 25

18A is in the middle of the yield ramp curve.

AMD's Linux kernel patches suggest enablement of next-gen Instinct MI400-series AI GPU accelerators

By Anton Shilov published 21 November 25

AMD begins hardware enablement for GFX 12.1 IP, which could point to next-generation Instinct MI400-series GPUs, or future integrated GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture.

Intel CEO rejects reports the company is obtaining TSMC secrets from former executive — Taiwan's investigation into Intel's controversial recent hire continues

By Anton Shilov published 21 November 25

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan dismisses speculation that former TSMC executive Wei-Jen Lo could have brought advanced TSMC process secrets to Intel.

Four Americans charged with smuggling Nvidia GPUs and HPE supercomputers to China face up to 200 years in prison —$3.89 million worth of gear smuggled in operation

By Anton Shilov published 21 November 25

Shipped 400 A100s, and attempted to ship 10 HPE supercomputers and 50 H200 GPUs to China.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says AI compute in space will be the lowest-cost option in 5 years — but Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a 'dream'

By Anton Shilov published 20 November 25

AI is flying high?

Nvidia hints at early Vera Rubin launch — on track for $500 billion in GPU sales by late 2026 despite losing China

By Anton Shilov published 20 November 25

Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI/HPC platform is now slated for a Q3 2026 launch, which will be instrumental for the company's $0.5 trillion GPU sales target despite losing the Chinese market.

Nvidia's revenue skyrockets to record $57 billion per quarter — all GPUs are sold out

By Anton Shilov published 20 November 25

As Blackwell Ultra ramps, Nvidia gets even more money.

Server memory prices to double year-over-year in 2026, LPDDR5X prices could follow — 'seismic shift' means even smartphone-class memory isn't safe from AI-induced crunch

By Anton Shilov published 19 November 25

Shortage and high DRAM prices can undermine.

Apple 3D prints titanium chassis for Apple Watch — additive manufacturing cuts raw material usage in half

By Anton Shilov published 19 November 25

Apple’s first large-scale use of metal 3D printing lets it mass-produce titanium Apple Watch and iPhone components while halving raw material consumption.

High-ranking TSMC executive faces Taiwan legal investigation over murky return to Intel — report alleges employee took technical documents with him

By Anton Shilov published 18 November 25

From Intel to TSMC and back?

AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system — EPYC 'Venice' and Instinct MI430X powered system breaks the ExaFLOP barrier

By Anton Shilov published 18 November 25

Some racks will even use Rhea2.

Elon Musk wants foundry partners to build astounding '100 – 200 billion AI chips' per year — Musk says chipmaking industry can't deliver on his goals

By Anton Shilov last updated 18 November 25

This is orders of magnitude more than the industry can build these days.

Arm joins Nvidia's NVLink Fusion ecosystem — Arm's Neoverse CPUs to get access to Nvidia GPUs

By Anton Shilov published 17 November 25

Arm enters into Nvidia's NVLink Fusion ecosystem, lets Arm licensees build CPUs that natively connect to Nvidia GPUs: They can now use custom CPUs and Nvidia AI accelerators.

Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform in depth — Inside Nvidia's most complex AI and HPC platform to date

By Anton Shilov published 17 November 25

Premium Diving deep into Nvidia's upcoming platform.

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

By Anton Shilov published 14 November 25

AMD continued to its CPU market share gains Q3 2025, surpassing one-quarter of all x86 CPU shipments and one-third of desktop shipments as Intel declined in desktops, laptops, and servers.

After six years of promises and no shipping silicon, Tachyum revises Prodigy processor specs to 1,024 cores with 1,600W of power consumption — likely another 5-year delay, company claims its chip is 20 times faster than Nvidia's Rubin NVL576 rack

By Anton Shilov published 14 November 25

Premium Final specifications after six years of waiting may set the stage for another major delay

JP Morgan says Nvidia is gearing up to sell entire AI servers instead of just AI GPUs and components — Jensen's master plan of vertical integration will boost Nvidia profits, purportedly starting with Vera Rubin

By Anton Shilov published 13 November 25

Higher supply chain consolidation under Nvidia?

Micron says New York chipmaking fabs still on track according to its latest timelines — accelerates second fab in Idaho and reallocates CHIPS Act funding (Updated)

By Anton Shilov last updated 11 November 25

No delays after all

Chinese scientists discover method to cut defects by 99% with DUV chipmaking equipment, but it destroys EUV pattern fidelity — analyzing photoresist clustering with cryo-ET at 105°C

By Anton Shilov published 10 November 25

Premium But chipmakers already know this empirically.

Elon Musk says building his own 'TeraFab' chip fab may be the only answer to Tesla's colossal AI semiconductor demand — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns against 'extremely hard' challenge

By Anton Shilov last updated 7 November 25

A new approach to chipmaking?

Google deploys new Axion CPUs and seventh-gen Ironwood TPU — training and inferencing pods beat Nvidia GB300 and shape 'AI Hypercomputer' model

By Anton Shilov last updated 6 November 25

Chips complete Google's portfolio of custom silicon.

Cooling system for a single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 rack costs a staggering $50,000 — set to increase to $56,000 with next-generation NVL144 racks

By Anton Shilov published 5 November 25

More power, more expensive cooling.

SK hynix reveals DRAM development roadmap through 2031 — DDR6, GDDR8, LPDDR6, and 3D DRAM incoming

By Anton Shilov published 5 November 25

No, HBF will not replace DRAM.

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