NVIDIA says the US has put export restrictions on H20 AI chips

NVIDIA says the US has put export restrictions on H20 AI chips

According to an SEC from NVIDIA, the US government now requires companies to obtain a license to export H20 integrated circuits and any other products that achieve the same performance benchmarks. The filing states that “the license requirement addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in … Read more

S. Korea Plans Extra $4.9 Bn Help For Chips Amid US Tariff Anxiety

S. Korea Plans Extra .9 Bn Help For Chips Amid US Tariff Anxiety

South Korea on Tuesday announced plans to invest almost $5 billion extra in the country’s semiconductor industry, citing “growing uncertainty” over US tariffs. The country is a major exporter to the United States and its powerhouse chip and auto industries would suffer a hefty hit from President Donald Trump’s threatened 25 percent levies. Concerns about … Read more

NVIDIA is going to make AI chips and supercomputers in the US

NVIDIA is going to make AI chips and supercomputers in the US

In a decision almost certainly informed by the recent tariff chaos, NVIDIA is going to start making some of its AI chips and supercomputers in the US. The company announced that it’s building and testing its Blackwell chips in Arizona and it plans to manufacture its AI supercomputers — presumably the recently announced DGX Spark … Read more

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips are tapping out too soon

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips are tapping out too soon

Reports of AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D failures have been surfacing online, with over 100 documented cases of dead processors, primarily on ASRock motherboards. The issue has been meticulously compiled by a Reddit user, highlighting concerns about compatibility and potential manufacturing defects affecting AMD’s latest 3D V-Cache processor. According to the compiled data, the majority of … Read more

Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work

Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work

You can go wild and create a machine with 32GB of memory and 2TB of storage at $3900. Most people won’t need to, but it means you have an alternative to the MacBook Pro in a thin and light design. Thanks to the M4, all MacBook Airs can now connect to two external displays while … Read more

Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work

Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work

You can go wild and create a machine with 32GB of memory and 2TB of storage at $3900. Most people won’t need to, but it means you have an alternative to the MacBook Pro in a thin and light design. Thanks to the M4, all MacBook Airs can now connect to two external displays while … Read more

AWS wants its customers to use its Trainium chips rather than Nvidia’s H100 AI GPU and has a plan to convince them

AWS wants its customers to use its Trainium chips rather than Nvidia’s H100 AI GPU and has a plan to convince them

AWS urging customers to switch from Nvidia to its cheaper Trainium chip It says its hardware offers the same performance with a 25 percent cost saving Amazon’s pitch happened as Nvidia was showcasing its new hardware at GTC 2025 While Nvidia was hosting its annual GTC 2025 conference, showing off new products like the DGX … Read more