This week’s jump in bitcoin prices revived themes well known to the digital currency that inflated then burst less than two years ago. Among them: enormous volatility and exchange overloads.
Nvidia has agreed to buy chip maker Mellanox Technologies for US$6.9-billion, gaining expertise to help it push into the growing market for data centre components.
Semiconductor stocks fell in early trading on Monday after Nvidia cut its fourth-quarter revenue outlook, citing deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China, along with weakness in its gaming and data centre divisions.
A UK start-up that designs semiconductors used for artificial intelligence applications has raised $200-million from investors including BMW and Microsoft.
Is the rout ripping through technology stocks just another garden variety correction? In the long sweep of history, yes. But compared only to selloffs since the bull market began, it’s starting to get extreme.
Huawei has overtaken Apple in smartphones. Now it wants to take on some of America’s largest technology companies in semiconductors.
On the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Nvidia’s new ray-tracing GPUs, Telkom’s unhappiness with Icasa, Nikon’s new mirrorless cameras and Apple’s forthcoming keynote.
Nvidia has unveiled a new graphics-chip design for computer gamers, aiming to bolster demand amid concerns that growth may be slowing.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg preview Nvidia’s big graphics card announcement happening on Monday – what can we expect from the GeForce RTX 2080ti. Plus plenty of other tech news.
Nvidia’s nine-month crypto gold rush is over. Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like ethereum dried up faster than expected, the company said.