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European think tank considers punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls
By Luke James last updated
Premium Think tank suggests tighter semiconductor controls amid rare earth tensions.

Nvidia's China presence hits zero, says CEO Jensen Huang, and companies are already working around it
By Luke James published
Premium Alibaba Cloud has revealed a new GPU pooling system that slashed the number of Nvidia accelerators needed for large-scale inference by more than 80%.

Anthropic targets gigantic $26 billion in revenue by the end of 2026
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Can the company actually pull it off?

Samsung joins Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program to produce custom AI chips — deepening Nvidia's control over AI system design
By Luke James published
Premium The partnership brings Samsung Foundry into Nvidia’s high-speed interconnect ecosystem, expanding NVLink’s reach beyond TSMC and deepening Nvidia’s control over AI system design.

Goodbye, Windows 10 — how a decade of 'progress' eroded users' command over their own machines
By Zak Killian published
Premium As Windows 10 fades into obsolescence, the argument it leaves behind is more philosophical than technical.

China probes Qualcomm with antitrust investigation in the latest asymmetric trade negotiation salvo
By Jon Martindale published
Premium Targeting a months-old deal for a company that was thought likely to expand Qualcomm's business, not reinforce it.

Nvidia is turning GPUs into capital, but questions exist around sustainability — AI companies are financing hardware like debt
By Luke James published
Premium From xAI’s $20 billion debt package to OpenAI’s prepaid clusters, the GPU shortage has created a new kind of financial asset.

OpenAI signs AMD deal for 6GW of AI GPUs with a massive equity kicker, OpenAI to obtain up to 160 million AMD shares at one cent apiece
By Luke James published
Premium OpenAI has secured up to 6 gigawatts of AMD GPU compute in a landmark supply agreement that could see the ChatGPT maker take a 10% stake in AMD.

AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade
By Luke James published
Premium Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years.

AMD and Intel's unlikely chipmaking partnership isn't without its benefits — how AMD could divest reliance on TSMC
By Luke James published
Premium Intel and AMD have competed at opposite ends of the x86 spectrum for decades, but a potential deal could be mutually beneficial for both companies.
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