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tomshardware.com › pc-components › motherboards

Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards than 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

… Those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, which have reduced production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. …

May 7, 2026 · Jowi Morales
tomshardware.com › tech-industry

Trump says China is blocking Nvidia H200 purchases despite US approval — says country 'chose not to' sanction purchases, pushing homegrown chips instead

President Donald Trump has said that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips, telling reporters aboard Air Force One after the conclusion of a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that China "chose not to" approve the purchases because "they want to develop … …

May 15, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › pc-components › gpus

Intel leans on LPDDR5X to dodge global HBM crisis, leaked Crescent Island AI GPU pics reveal massive Xe3P core — chip sidesteps HBM shortage with 160GB of cheaper memory

… Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking A deeper look at the chipmaking supply chain TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking The PCB shots confirm that Intel has opted to go with a single-GPU setu… …

May 21, 2026 · Aaron Klotz

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ASML CEO says Elon Musk is 'very serious' about TeraFab chipmaking megaproject, confirms direct talks — Musk targets $119 billion Texas semiconductor facility

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow TeraFab, which Musk an… …

May 21, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › desktops › servers

Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case

… Now that key manufacturing and transit hubs like Taiwan and Singapore are actively hunting down middlemen using local criminal fraud laws, the supply chain is fracturing. Getting banned Hopper or Blackwell chips into mainland data centers just became exponentially more fraught. …

May 21, 2026 · Zak Killian
tomshardware.com › tech-industry

Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford'

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis Samsung and SK hynix shorten memory contracts as pricing power shifts back to suppliers Memory makers are set… …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › big-tech

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union — tentative deal, subject to workers' vote, suspends billions of dollars worth of potential losses

… Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking A deeper look at the chipmaking supply chain TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking The deal followed last-minute talks involving Samsung management, union… …

May 20, 2026 · Etiido Uko