US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad
US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad

New Commerce Department guidance ties export-licence rules to where a company is headquartered, not where it sits, snaring the overseas units of Chinese AI firms. For about a year, there was a way around America’s toughest chip controls, and it was a m…

This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

Once upon a time, Microsoft had to write off $900 million betting an Arm-based Nvidia chip could power its first flagship Windows portable, the original Microsoft Surface. But today, it’s trying again. Microsoft and Nvidia have just announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a computer with a new Arm-based Nvidia chip at its core. There’s a […]

Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’
Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’

This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip – not just graphics – into the very heart of laptops and mini-PCs. After many months of leaks, it’s finally announcing the RTX Spark, the first in a family of chips that will meet […]

How to watch Nvidia’s Computex keynote
How to watch Nvidia’s Computex keynote

NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today’s presentation, but the big one is the possibility of a partnership with Microsoft and […]

Nvidia leak spoils multiple variants of its upcoming N1-series processors

Nvidia’s upcoming PC processor plans may have slipped out ahead of schedule, and the leak hints at something much bigger than a single flagship chip.

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors

It’s the world’s worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows and Nvidia GeForce accounts on X both posted “A new era of PC” earlier today, and now Arm has followed […]

After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios. 

Nvidia has spent $6.5 billion in three months to replace copper with light inside AI data centres
Nvidia has spent $6.5 billion in three months to replace copper with light inside AI data centres

Nvidia has committed at least $6.5 billion to photonics companies since the beginning of March, making it the largest single investor in the technology that many in the industry believe will replace copper wiring as the backbone of AI data centres. The…

Jensen Huang joins the Tsinghua University advisory board chaired by Tim Cook
Jensen Huang joins the Tsinghua University advisory board chaired by Tim Cook

The Nvidia CEO accepts a seat on Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management board alongside Musk, Dell, Nadella, Zuckerberg, Dimon and Fink, days after travelling to China with Trump. Jensen Huang has accepted an invitation to join the advisory boar…

Taiwan suspects NVIDIA chips were smuggled to China via a Japan transshipment route
Taiwan suspects NVIDIA chips were smuggled to China via a Japan transshipment route

Three suspects, including a Super Micro senior vice president, are accused of exporting US-restricted servers through false documents to Japan and then on to mainland China. Taiwanese prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at …