Beijing boffins create chips from Bismuth
More digestible than silicon
Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a non-silicon based transistor that’s faster and more efficient than anything out there.
Nvidia’s Blackwell spin spotted
Sales not as good as claimed
Nvidia is trying to convince everyone that its shiny new RTX Blackwell cards have outsold the previous generation 2:1 in the first five weeks.
Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i
Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.
Meta training its own AI chips
RISC-V business
Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.
Broadcom might upset Nvidia’s AI applecart
Hyperscalers are where the money is at
Nvidia might be the poster child of the AI boom, but according to the Financial Times, investors betting on Broadcom have had an even sweeter ride.
Budget-friendly RTX 5050 is a bit of a snooze
Nvidia just repackaged an old card
Nvidia’s budget-friendly RTX 5050 is finally making the rounds online; from the looks of it, the card is about as exciting as a reheated cup of tea.
TSMC doing well
40 per cent revenue growth
TSMC is on a tear, raking in a staggering 39 per cent revenue growth in the first two months of 2025, largely thanks to the unrelenting demand for Nvidia’s AI chips.
Nvidia reportedly announcing Geforce RTX 5060 series soon
Geforce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060
According to the latest rumors, it appears that Nvidia could announce its Geforce RTX 5060 series next week, most likely on March 13th. The information comes from Nvidia AIC partners, and we could see RTX 5060 Ti in both 8GB and 16GB versions and the RTX 5060 with 8GB of VRAM.
Nvidia releases Geforce 572.70 WHQL driver
One with support for Geforce RTX 5070
Alongside the new Geforce RTX 5070 graphics card, Nvidia has rolled out its latest Geforce 572.70 WHQL driver, one that comes with the support for the aforementioned graphics card, as well as brings a single fix and Game Ready improvements for a couple of new games.
Nvidia and Broadcom test Intel's 18A manufacturing process
Could be a move against TSMC
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Nvidia and Broadcom are testing Intel's advanced 18A manufacturing process.