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

Fragmented ecosystems and limited supply: Why China cannot break free from Nvidia hardware for AI

By Anton Shilov published 18 August 25

News Analysis China's push for AI hardware self-reliance hits the roadblock despite U.S. government's restructions due to fragmented hardware and software ecosystems.

Trump mulls a 300% tariff on chips — levies coming within two weeks as Section 232 investigation nears completion

By Anton Shilov published 15 August 25

Trump’s floated plan for semiconductor tariffs as high as 300% has rattled the tech industry.

China-based firm delivers its first chipmaking tool that stamps nanoscale processor designs onto wafers — Prinano's nanoimprint lithography tool uses quartz molds engraved with circuits

By Anton Shilov published 15 August 25

U.S. AI boom is completely upending the electricity market — small businesses and households could foot the bill as industry watchers warn of sharp price increases

By Anton Shilov published 15 August 25

The rapid growth of AI data centers is driving up U.S. household power bills as utilities expand the grid to meet their massive, volatile electricity demand.

Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

Trump administration reportedly mulls investing in Intel to bolster national security — direct cash assistance would speed Ohio fab build out

By Anton Shilov last updated 15 August 25

The U.S. administration is considering buying a stake in Intel to accelerate construction of its long-delayed $100 billion Ohio fab complex that is crucial for the company's revival.

Intel spinoff Altera faces lay offs — 82 staff let go after Intel sold majority stake for $4.46 billion earlier this year

By Anton Shilov published 14 August 25

FPGA developer Altera will cut 82 San Jose jobs in October 2025 as part of a strategic shift following its sale by Intel and a strategic realignment under new leadership.

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

By Anton Shilov published 14 August 25

Estimates from the University of Rhode Island's AI lab suggest OpenAI's more capable GPT 5 could consume up to 45 GWh per day. But researchers may be wrong.

The tale of Nvidia's HGX H20: How an AI GPU became a political lightning rod

By Anton Shilov published 14 August 25

News Analysis Nvidia’s HGX H20, a cut-down AI GPU originally allowed for sale to China, has become a geopolitical bargaining tool as the U.S. taxes its exports and China halts purchases over security concerns.

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 14 August 25

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.

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 14 August 25

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.

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 12 August 25

Becoming friends?

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

By Anton Shilov published 11 August 25

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 11 August 25

Chinese companies rejoice?

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

By Anton Shilov published 8 August 25

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.

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 8 August 25

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 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 8 August 25

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

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

By Anton Shilov published 8 August 25

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

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 7 August 25

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.