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

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.

Producer of stinky thermal paste that corrodes copper has known about the issue since 2024 - the paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, 'glues' heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers

By Anton Shilov published 3 November 25

Stinks, corrodes, does not improve?

American startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUV — X-ray lithography system has potential to surpass ASML's EUV scanners

By Anton Shilov published 31 October 25

If it can build a fab to match its tool.

Nvidia's market capitalization hits $5.12 trillion — AI powerhouse is the first company in history to hit seismic milestone

By Anton Shilov published 29 October 25

GTC announcements drive Nvidia's market capitalization by over $200 billion in one day, making the company the world's first firm to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion.

Nvidia reveals Vera Rubin Superchip for the first time — incredibly compact board features 88-core Vera CPU, two Rubin GPUs, and 8 SOCAMM modules

By Anton Shilov published 29 October 25

First images of Nvidia's Vera Rubin Superchip depicting two Rubin GPUs and a multi-chiplet Vera CPU surrounded by SOCAMM2 memory modules emerge.

Nvidia and partners to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs —combined performance of 2,200 ExaFLOPS of compute

By Anton Shilov published 28 October 25

And even more.

Nvidia announces reference design for colossal gigawatt-scale Omniverse DSX data centers — single data center requires a nuclear reactor's worth of power generation

By Anton Shilov published 28 October 25

Nvidia introduces Omniverse DSX Blueprint, a digital-twin-based reference design for gigawatt-scale AI data centers that standardizes how partners can build and optimize 'AI factories.'

Musk says Samsung's Texas fab outclasses TSMC's US-based fabs — with AI5 still in development, questions remain over whether Tesla will need advanced tools

By Anton Shilov published 28 October 25

Premium AI5 is set to be deployed in cars, robots, and data centers

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins

By Anton Shilov published 28 October 25

Vera Rubin forges into supercomputers.

SK hynix unveils AI NAND strategy, including gargantuan petabyte-class QLC SSDs — ultra-fast HBF and 100M IOPS SSDs also in the pipeline

By Anton Shilov published 28 October 25

NAND for AI.

Qualcomm unveils AI200 and AI250 AI inference accelerators — Hexagon takes on AMD and Nvidia in the booming data center realm

By Anton Shilov published 27 October 25

But will they beat AMD's and Nvidia's offerings?