Repair specialist says Nvidia's flagship card is a modder’s nightmare

Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been labelled a disaster by repair experts after a failed attempt to add water cooling rendered the GPU completely unfixable.

Outfit still on a tightrope

Shares in Troubled Chipzilla surged after the struggling semiconductor outfit posted better than expected revenue, signalling tentative progress in its long and painful turnaround.

Start-up inks deal worth tens of billions to secure computing power

Anthropic has struck a deal to grab hold of one million Google Cloud chips to train and run its artificial intelligence models, tightening its bond with one of its biggest investors.

Starcloud plans orbiting GPU boxes claiming 100x compute and free solar juice

Nvidia's AI silicon is headed for orbit as startup Starcloud prepares to launch a data centre in space using H100 GPUs stuffed into a 60-kilogram Starcloud-1 satellite.

SOCAMM2 modules promise massive capacity, tiny footprint, and less power

Micron has rolled out what it claims is the industry’s beefiest low-power DRAM module, a 192GB SOCAMM2 designed for the power-hungry AI data centre crowd.

Scheduler squeezes more work from fewer H20 accelerators

Alibaba Cloud boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having found a way to make Nvidia’s costly GPUs actually earn their keep.

With 72GB of GDDR7 ECC memory

NVIDIA has silently introduced a new version of the RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU that comes with 72GB of GDDR7 memory.

Jensen Huang made the $100 billion deal a top priority

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang apparently panicked when rumours spread that OpenAI might start using Google’s custom silicon for its massive AI workloads.

Bundles Gaudi with Nvidia to stay in the game

Troubled Chipzilla has admitted it can’t beat Nvidia in the AI silicon war, so now it’s joining them by stuffing its own Gaudi 3 chips into a rack-scale server alongside Team Green’s mighty Blackwell B200 GPUs.

Twinscan EUV kit and shiny wafer robots steal the show

Wafer-maker-in-chief TSMC has released a glossy video giving the world a look inside its Fab 21 plant in Phoenix, Arizona, and it’s stuffed with chip porn for the semiconductor-curious.