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Semiconductors

The silicon cold war — chips, fabs, export controls, and the hardware powering the AI boom.

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NVIDIA Buys $5B Stake in Intel in Seismic x86-RTX Chip Deal

Tom's Hardware·Sep 18, 2025·9 min read

In one of the most dramatic chip industry moves in decades, NVIDIA is buying a $5 billion stake in Intel and jointly developing x86 processors with integrated RTX graphics for PCs and data centers.

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May 17, 2026

China Bypasses US GPU Bans With 1.54 Exaflops CPU-Only Supercomputer

Tom's Hardware·8 min read

The 'LineShine' system packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores, achieving exascale performance without access to restricted NVIDIA or AMD chips — a watershed moment in the silicon cold war.

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May 17, 2026

For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras Win Is Just the Start of Realizing Its Physical-World Thesis

TechCrunch·6 min read

The venture firm behind Cerebras' record chip deal sees a future where AI hardware companies dominate the physical economy — not just data centers.

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May 17, 2026

CUDA Books: The Essential Reading List for GPU Programmers

HN Community·5 min read

A comprehensive collection of books, papers, and resources for mastering CUDA programming — from beginner guides to advanced optimization techniques.

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Jan 14, 2026

Beijing Tells Chinese Firms to Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software

Reuters·6 min read

China's government has ordered domestic companies to phase out American and Israeli cybersecurity products, the latest escalation in the tech decoupling between the world's two largest economies.

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2026-05-11

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

adamnemecek·5 min read
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2026-05-07

Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA

segmenta·5 min read
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2026-05-06

Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement

speckx·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)

internet_points·5 min read
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2026-05-06

Google to sell TPU chips to select customers

gmays·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

ck2·6 min read
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2026-05-18

The era of free money may have ended

latentframe·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Trump's More Than 3,700 Trades Astonish Wall Street Insiders

_tk_·5 min read
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2026-05-18

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

robtherobber·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel

banku_brougham·6 min read
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2026-05-18

The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests

asimov4·6 min read
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2026-05-17

China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer

giuliomagnifico·5 min read
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2026-05-18

America Needs to Build More Housing

rafaelc·4 min read
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2026-05-06

Supermicro's co-founder smuggled $2.5B in Nvidia-chipped servers to China

rmason·5 min read
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2026-05-13

Foxconn confirms cyberattack – confidential Apple, Nvidia files stolen

thm·5 min read
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2026-05-07

Show HN: Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200

Prakash_1·5 min read
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2026-05-06

Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned off

aruss·6 min read
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2026-05-18

AI super-apps are remaking China's internet

pingou·4 min read
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2026-05-18

The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI and Everything Else

PaulHoule·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Australia orders China-linked investors to sell Northern Minerals stake

leonidasrup·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Spirit Airlines Passenger Brings 'Emotional Support' Rotisserie Chicken Thru TSA

rawgabbit·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Microsoft AI chief gives 18 months for whitecollar work to be automated by AI

RyeCombinator·6 min read
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2026-05-17

China's Invisible Hand Is Distorting Global Oil Markets – Oilprice.com

xbmcuser·5 min read
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2026-05-17

'White monkeys' paid to make Chinese businesses look global

YeGoblynQueenne·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Pope creates AI study group as Vatican prepares release of first encyclical

1vuio0pswjnm7·6 min read
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2026-05-16

Nvidia Preparing RTX 5090 Price Increase Due to Rising GDDR7 Memory Costs

jeffufl·6 min read
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2026-05-16

US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

JumpCrisscross·6 min read
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2026-05-12

Nvidia is buying the chip supply chain

petethomas·5 min read
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2026-05-12

Skymizer's chip design could embarrass Nvidia and AMD cards

anticensor·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman

theahura·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Understanding the Go runtime: the "select" statement

valyala·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Instant AI answers can trivialise human intelligence, warns Royal Observatory

01-_-·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Yum Brands, Nvidia will deploy new AI at 500 restaurants

littlexsparkee·5 min read
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2026-05-15

Self-destructing $2k Nvidia chips for distributed solar data ctrs in lampposts

toss1·6 min read
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2026-05-14

Nvidia CEO Compares Aging GPUs to Fine Wine

akyuu·5 min read
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2026-05-13

Trump Says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Flying with Him to China

01-_-·6 min read
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2026-05-11

Nvidia embraces AI investor, topping $40B in equity bets 2026

gmays·5 min read
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2026-05-11

Intel to Put Nvidia GPUs in Intel SoCs

boplicity·5 min read
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2026-05-07

Show HN: No More Deepfakes – A Ramanujan 1/π and Nvidia B200 Architecture

Prakash_1·6 min read
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2026-05-07

Nvidia Enterprise Reference Architectures for AI Data Centers

nalinidash·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

dxs·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Nobody's negotiating for the people here: Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

beardyw·6 min read
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2026-05-18

US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO(stationary orbits)

huhtenberg·6 min read
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2026-05-18

How to Read Like a Child Again

paulpauper·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Casimir raised $12M for chip that allegedly extracts net energy from the vacuum

pseudolus·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Shipping my first mobile app with AI

rpatni·5 min read
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2026-05-17

A New Kind of Family-Separation Crisis

paulpauper·4 min read
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2026-05-17

DFDS to invest €1B in battery electric ships for the Channel

zeristor·6 min read
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2026-05-17

The Streaming Latency Tradeoff: Why Some TTS Models Lose Accuracy in Real Time

ChicknNuggt·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Chinese University Student Expelled for Improper Contact with a Foreigner (2025)

toilet·6 min read
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2026-05-13

CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company

bookofjoe·5 min read
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2026-05-13

Nvidia Is Buying the Chip Supply Chain

fortran77·5 min read
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2026-05-11

Dynamic Persistent Tile Scheduling w/ Cluster Launch Control (CLC) on Blackwell

matt_d·6 min read
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2026-05-08

Huawei braces for $12B in AI chip revenue-Chinese fabs can barely keep up

sleepyguy·6 min read
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2026-05-07

Nvidia faces its biggest threat yet as tech giants build their own AI chips

1vuio0pswjnm7·6 min read
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2026-05-06

Show HN: Toposonico, a music recommender you can navigate

deppep·5 min read
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2026-05-18

We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened

1317·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Starlink raises prices across satellite internet plans

Brajeshwar·5 min read
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2026-05-18

The Thing Protecting You Is Now the Target

interrupt86·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Interviews Aren't About You

HieronymusBosch·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Less Is More: Interface Agents as Digital Butlers (1994)

sysoleg·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: RAGDebugger – observability – retrieval-augmented generation pipeline

vasan_natarajan·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Book Club: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

rhazn·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Arcweave: Build interactive stories at the speed of thought

doener·5 min read
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2026-05-18

OpenClaw creator burns through $1.3 mio in OpenAI API tokens in a single month

m0do1·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Being Political in the Right Way: On reasoning about society

crescit_eundo·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Today I shipped 20 apps and a screensaver ⌘I Get Info

surprisetalk·6 min read
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2026-05-18

EU plans to force companies to buy parts from non-Chinese suppliers

robtherobber·6 min read
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2026-05-18

We engineered RAG to be 50% faster

ChicknNuggt·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Apple Is Making Hit Products and High Profits from Imperfect Chips

fortran77·6 min read
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2026-05-18

How China's Shadow AI API Market Works

vincent_s·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Trapped in the dark web – a crisis growing in the shadows

abawany·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Lord of the Flies: A Harmful Distortion of Children's Nature

Ariarule·5 min read
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2026-05-12

Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL

daureg·5 min read
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2026-05-12

MinIO adds petabyte-scale MemKV cache for Nvidia GPU inference

bjflanne·5 min read
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2026-05-06

Nvidia's Status as the Biggest Company Could Could End Soon

donsupreme·5 min read
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2026-05-06

Nvidia Spectrum-X MRC Is the Custom RDMA Transport Protocol for Gigascale AI

cpard·6 min read
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2026-05-18

The cellphone that implicates Argentina's president in the $Libra case

janandonly·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Zero – the new programming language for AI – is basically Rust

interrupt86·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Establishing a weekly user interview routine

speckx·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Intel wants to use China's phone supply chain to build cheaper laptops

LorenDB·6 min read
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2026-05-18

SEOTrends scans the internet to uncover easy-to-rank SEO opportunities

kluiii·5 min read
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2026-05-18

AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language

oldnetguy·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

epaga·6 min read
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2026-05-18

AI Revenue May Jump 5x to $200B This Year as Spending Race Intensifies

gluke_bywalker·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

speckx·4 min read
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2026-05-18

I've been shipping 'multi-tenant' wrong for a decade

kumulo·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Show HN: Amazon-ready books from simple HTML: EPublish

TeaVMFan·5 min read
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