Chip stocks rally after Trump flip-flops
Tariffs aren’t a tech bro’s best friend
Chipmakers had a rare moment of joy this week after reports suggested that Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump might not slap the semiconductor industry with another round of wallet-crushing tariffs on 2 April.
Oracle buys 30,000 AMD AI chips
Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia
Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.
Top fabless chipmakers rake in $249.8 billion
Half of this went to Nvidia
The semiconductor industry in 2024 was an all-you-can-eat buffet for AI chipmakers, with the top ten fabless firms raking in a cool $249.8 billion—nearly half of which was trousered by Nvidia.
AMD finally sorts out Ryzen 7 9800X3D supply
Claims it is available
AMD has declared that it has sorted out all the supply issues with its Ryzen 7 9800X3D -- arguably the best gaming chip on the market.
Intel releases XeSS 2 SDK
Enters the AI upscaling race
Troubled Chipzilla has finally pulled its finger out and released the XeSS 2 SDK, hoping to claw back some relevance in the AI upscaling arms race.
G.Skill announces new DDR5 memory kits for AMD platform
Extreme speed and large capacity kits
G.Skill has announced a couple of new DDR5 memory kits aimed at the AMD platform, including an extreme-speed DDR5-8000 48GB kit and a large-capacity DDR5-6000 192GB kit.
MSI snubs AMD’s RDNA 4 lineup
Agreed to see other people
MSI has quietly ghosted AMD’s latest Radeon GPUs, skipping the entire RDNA 4 lineup and leaving the Radeon RX 9070 series without one of its usual partners.
AMD requires UEFI for RX 9070 series
Not supporting BIOS and CSM standards
AMD has confirmed that its upcoming RX 9070 series (RDNA 4) GPUs will require a UEFI system for optimal compatibility, unceremoniously dumping support for the ageing BIOS and CSM standards.
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 and Ryzen AI 7 350 processors
Sapphire is apparently looking to make a return to the mini-PC market, and is showcasing two new Edge AI mini-PC series SKUs at the Embedded World 2025.
TSMC is making serious moves on Intel
Joint venture with Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom
TSMC is trying to rescue troubled Chipzilla’s floundering foundry business, pitching a joint venture to Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom to keep the US chip dinosaur from drowning in a tarpit of its own making.