Chipwrecked
The AI data center build-out, as it currently stands, is dependent on two things: Nvidia chips and borrowed money. Perhaps it was inevitable that people would begin using Nvidia chips…
Trump says Nvidia can sell more powerful AI chips to China
Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to “approved customers” in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth…
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
Big brain hours Christ. Fine. So over the weekend, a strange Substack post from what appears to be a CEO of a pet relocation company went very viral. This post…
Framework’s franken-laptop is back with big chip upgrades and familiar frustrations
The new Laptop 16 is a lot like the original on the outside, though here it’s shown with a prototype 3D-printed trackpad surround that’s a single piece. Framework did it…
Uber, Stellantis, Nvidia, and Foxconn make a robotaxi deal
Robotaxi fever is back, baby! After a bunch of automaker-led autonomous driving projects shut down amid concerns over safety and costs, car companies are expressing a renewed interest in self-driving…
Nvidia’s ‘personal AI supercomputer’ goes on sale October 15th
Nvidia’s DGX Spark computer. Nvidia will start selling its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The machine is powerful enough to let users work on sophisticated AI models but…
OpenAI partners with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to produce its own computer chips to power its AI data centers. The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships designed to…
Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech
Nvidia is open-sourcing Audio2Face, its AI-powered tool that generates realistic facial animations for 3D avatars — all based on audio input. The change means developers can now use the tool…
Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch
Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world’s most valuable company (Nvidia’s at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a…
Nvidia invests $5 billion into Intel to jointly develop PC and data center chips
Nvidia is throwing Intel a $5 billion life raft, just weeks after similar stakes from the US government and SoftBank. Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel common stock in…