Rivian Ditches Nvidia for Custom RAP1 Chip in R2 SUV
On Wednesday, December 11, Rivian unveiled the RAP1 (Rivian Autonomy Processor 1), a custom 5nm AI chip that will replace Nvidia technology in ...
Optical Computing Breaks 10 GHz: GPU Alternative in 3 Years
The GPU bottleneck narrative just got complicated. While the industry scrambles for NVIDIA’s $40,000 GPUs, ...
AWS Trainium3 Matches NVIDIA: 50% Cheaper AI Training
AWS Trainium3 matches NVIDIA GB300 at 0.36 ExaFLOPS with 50% cost savings. Anthropic's 500K chip ...
Room-Temperature Quantum Computing: Stanford Ends $10M Era
Stanford University researchers published a quantum communication device this week that operates at room temperature, ...
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys Deal Grips Chip Design Tools
On December 1, 2025, Nvidia dropped $2 billion on Synopsys, the dominant chip design software ...
Marvell’s $5.5B Bet on Photonics for AI Infrastructure
Marvell's $5.5B Celestial AI buy solves AI memory bottleneck with 16Tbps photonics. Oracle deploys 131K GPUs on optical links. Cloud adoption starts 2028.
CPU Performance Declines for First Time in 20 Years: What Happened?
For the first time in PassMark’s 20-year history of tracking CPU benchmarks, average processor performance ...
RAM Prices Surge 60%: Memory Shortage Through 2028
The Price Shock Samsung has raised memory chip prices by 60% since September 2025, and ...
Valve’s 9-Year ARM Gaming Secret: FEX Emulator Funding
Valve revealed this week it’s been secretly funding ARM gaming technology for nine years. Pierre-Loup ...
Google Willow Quantum Chip: Error Correction Breakthrough Over Hype
Google’s Willow quantum chip just solved a computational problem in under five minutes that would ...
