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Nvidia’s hometown data centres left powerless
Published in Cloud


Santa Clara projects sit idle as AI boom slams into an energy wall

Two massive data centre projects in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Nvidia’s glorious green empire, are sitting empty as the city’s grid buckles under demand from the AI gold rush.

Nvidia shoves Rubin into production with HBM4 in hand
Published in News


Vera Rubin superchip sprints from keynote glare to TSMC’s lines

Nvidia is racing its Rubin GPUs into production, turning the Vera Rubin superchip from stage prop into silicon while the ink on the slides is still drying.

Nvidia might scrap RTX 50 SUPER GPUs
Published in Graphics
Friday, 07 November 2025 10:56

Nvidia might scrap RTX 50 SUPER GPUs


Thanks to DDR7 shortages

It looks like Nvidia might be running out of memory, and the dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn suggesting its long-expected GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series could be delayed or binned.

Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI
Published in AI
Thursday, 06 November 2025 09:24

Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI


Huang warns West is stuck in pessimism

US tech giant Nvidia’s supreme dalek Jensen Huang reckons China is pulling ahead in the artificial intelligence race while the Land of the Free is stuck spinning its wheels in regulatory sludge.

Qualcomm weathers tax hit but keeps punters happy
Published in News


Mobile chip giant posts gains, sees AI as golden goose

Chipmaker Qualcomm managed to please the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street despite coughing up a net loss of $3.12 billion, thanks to an income tax sting that took a chunk out of what would have been a solid quarter.

AMD can ship Instinct MI308 AI chips to China
Published in AI
Wednesday, 05 November 2025 11:02

AMD can ship Instinct MI308 AI chips to China


Meanwhile Nvidia’s H20 is stuck in export limbo

AMD has received export approval for its Instinct MI308 AI chips, a move that gives it a narrow but meaningful advantage over Nvidia in the tightly restricted Chinese AI hardware market.

AMD hit by patent troll over 3d v-cache tech
Published in News
Wednesday, 05 November 2025 10:12

AMD hit by patent troll over 3d v-cache tech


Adeia dusts off patents to chase a payout on Ryzen X3D chips

Chipmaker AMD has found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Adeia, a company that doesn’t make anything but claims to own the technology behind the firm’s 3D V-Cache hybrid bonding used in Ryzen X3D processors.

Super Micro boosts forecast despite earnings wobble
Published in News


Server maker banks on Nvidia’s AI gold rush to lift 2026 sales

Super Micro Computer has decided to crank up its revenue outlook for fiscal 2026, betting that the world’s insatiable demand for Nvidia-powered AI servers will more than make up for a rough patch in earnings.

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom plan €1 billion AI factory in Germany
Published in AI


Munich data centre makeover aims to close Europe’s AI gap

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom are teaming up to build one of Europe’s biggest artificial intelligence factories, a €1 billion ($1.15 billion) project designed to give the EU’s lagging AI sector a shot in the arm.

Microsoft throws $9.7 billion at crypto miners for AI muscle
Published in News


IREN deal gives Redmond a mountain of Nvidia GPUs

Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided that the best way to stay on top of the AI arms race is to buy its way there.