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

Frore's new LiquidJet coldplates are designed to handle up to 4,400W of power from Nvidia's Feynman AI GPUs — new design uses semiconductor manufacturing techniques to create 3D jet-channel microstructures

By Anton Shilov published 15 October 25

Drop in compatible with Blackwell Ultra today, ready for Feynman tomorrow.

Intel unveils Crescent Island, an inference-only GPU with Xe3P architecture and 160GB of memory

By Anton Shilov published 14 October 25

Intel has unveiled its Crescent Island data center GPU for inference, built on the Xe3P architecture and equipped with 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory.

AMD and Intel celebrate first anniversary of x86 alliance — new security features coming to x86 CPUs

By Anton Shilov published 14 October 25

The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group turns one year old.

Inside the AI accelerator arms race: AMD, Nvidia, and hyperscalers commit to annual releases through the decade

By Anton Shilov published 13 October 25

Premium Competition for Nvidia looms.

Applied Materials preps for 'Angstrom Era' in chipmaking — spearheaded by its new Kinex, Xtera, and PROVision 10 systems

By Anton Shilov published 12 October 25

Applied Materials has introduced three new chipmaking systems that are set to mark the beginning of the 'angstrom' and 3D chiplent integration era in chipmaking.

AI datacenters in the US aren't 'running on coal' — but this dirty fuel has found favor for feeding demand spikes due to increased gas prices

By Anton Shilov published 12 October 25

Coal use up 20% in 2025, and will likely continue to be in demand for another couple of years.

Trump strikes back at China with a 100% tariff and critical software ban — major escalation retaliates for China's rare earth restrictions

By Anton Shilov published 11 October 25

Hit them high.

Intel's 18A production starts before TSMC’s competing N2 tech — here's how the two process nodes compare

By Anton Shilov published 10 October 25

Production starts at Fab 52.

SoftBank is seeking $5 billion loan to invest in OpenAI, plans to use Arm shares as collateral — rapid AI expansion continues, investment could top $30 billion

By Anton Shilov published 10 October 25

SoftBank has a growing appetite for cash on its path towards becoming a major AI force.

Singapore company allegedly helped China smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claims — Nvidia denies that the accused has any China ties, but a U.S. investigation is underway

By Anton Shilov published 10 October 25

Nvidia says the firm was legit.

AMD will beat Nvidia to launching AI GPUs on the cutting-edge 2nm node — Instinct MI450 is officially the first AMD GPU to launch with TSMC's finest tech

By Anton Shilov published 9 October 25

OpenAI will be among the first to get these accelerators.

Washington's ambition for a 50/50 semiconductor deal with Taiwan is missing a key component — lack of a mature homegrown supply chain could be the missing link

By Anton Shilov published 9 October 25

Premium Is Lutnick's plan just political hogwash?

U.S. finally grants Nvidia license to ship AI GPUs to UAE: 500,000 Blackwell GPUs coming to the Gulf region

By Anton Shilov published 9 October 25

Billions of dollars at stake.

OCuLink outpaces Thunderbolt 5 in Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti tests — latter up to 14% slower on average in gaming benchmarks

By Anton Shilov published 4 October 25

OCuLink or Thunderbolt? That is the question!

Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power

By Anton Shilov published 3 October 25

But at what cost?

Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16

By Anton Shilov published 3 October 25

Premium NVFP4 on Blackwell offers gains in compute and memory efficiency over FP8 and BF16

Qualcomm's big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms

By Anton Shilov published 3 October 25

Premium Qualcomm's win could set a new precedent for Arm licensees

SiPearl unveils Europe's first dual-use sovereign processor with 80 cores — expected in 2027 for government, aerospace, and defense applications

By Anton Shilov published 3 October 25

SiPearl's Athena1 derives from Rhea, packs up to 80 Neoverse V1 cores, and is aimed at both civilian and military use. But will it be competitive in the second half of 2027?

$568 million of GPUs allegedly misused for crypto mining caught in tax evasion and money laundering probe — EU claims 10,000 Nvidia H100 units acquired by Northern Data may not have been used for AI

By Anton Shilov published 2 October 25

Northern Data is under investigation for allegedly misusing AI tax breaks on 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, despite the hardware being ill-suited for crypto mining.

TSMC reduces peak power consumption of EUV tools by 44% — company to save 190 million kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2030

By Anton Shilov published 1 October 25

Reducing power consumption by 8%

OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK hynix to the tune of up to 900,000 wafers per month

By Anton Shilov published 1 October 25

Working at scale.

Nvidia's new CPX GPU aims to change the game in AI inference — how the debut of cheaper and cooler GDDR7 memory could redefine AI inference infrastructure

By Anton Shilov published 30 September 25

An accelerator for accelerators.

China's premier memory-maker YMTC struggles amid chokehold of US sanctions — outdated chipmaking tools and lack of new tools have hampered production and development of new tech

By Anton Shilov published 28 September 25

YMTC's efforts to expand its presence in the 3D NAND memory market have stalled as US export restrictions prevent the company from acquiring advanced tools needed to scale production.

U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device

By Anton Shilov published 28 September 25

Make chips in the U.S., or pay tariffs.

Russia outlines EUV litho chipmaking tool roadmap through 2037 — country eyes replacing DUV with EUV

By Anton Shilov last updated 28 September 25

Because why not?

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