Muhammad Qasim

1 week ago | appuals.com | Muhammad Qasim

Intel’s financial woes with its semiconductor division made Altera, a company that builds programmable chips, one of the “lucrative” assets to sell. To strengthen its balance sheet and cut losses, Intel has sold off its majority stake in the chipmaker to a private equity firm, Silver Lake.

1 week ago | appuals.com | Muhammad Qasim

Amid the threat of rising tariffs, NVIDIA has announced that it will manufacture AI chips locally for the very first time. The company will partner with TSMC to bring production to U.S. soil and will spend close to half a trillion USD over the next four years. NVIDIA is pushing to move production close to home, and with rising demand, the company has stated that it has started production at TSMC’s Arizona fab.

1 week ago | appuals.com | Muhammad Qasim

With the RTX 5060 Ti’s launch closing in, leaks on NVIDIA’s board partners are starting to catch a bit of air. ASUS’ four variants for the 60-class Blackwell GPU have been pictured in unofficial renders, which reveal some interesting tidbits about the card. In a report citing its own sources, VideoCardz has leaked the entire ASUS lineup for the upcoming RTX 5060 Ti. These include the TUF, PRIME, and DUAL series cards, with a China-exclusive Hatsune Miku Edition rounding off the four models.

1 week ago | appuals.com | Muhammad Qasim

NVIDIA is prepping to launch the mid-range 60-class Blackwell GPUs later this week. Meanwhile, a leak from VideoCardz has revealed renders from its board partners, specifically ZOTAC, that seem to have been skipping the 12VHPWR connector on their models. ZOTAC will stick to the standard 8-pin connector on the 5060Ti, which for a lot of reasons, seems to be the ideal choice. See, the GPU comes with a maximum TDP of 180W, maybe slightly more when OC’d.

1 week ago | appuals.com | Muhammad Qasim

China has stated that it will not impose tariffs on American-designed chips that are manufactured overseas. This would not only allow companies like AMD and Qualcomm to avoid the “punitive” taxes but could also prove to be beneficial for chipmakers like TSMC. With the nature of the semiconductor supply chain globally, with the manufacturing concentrated in countries outside of the U.S. and China, both countries had initially avoided taxing the segment.