Your next Nvidia GPU could cost up to 30% more, and AI is to blame

That dream RTX upgrade may be slipping further out of reach as AI keeps driving GPU prices higher.

Nvidia’s RTX 50 GPUs are about to cost nearly double what you paid at launch

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are reportedly getting steep price increases, with the RTX 5090 potentially climbing to nearly $3,843 from its $1,999 launch price.

Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP
Best Buy is selling an RTX 5080 for more than the RTX 5090’s MSRP

Best Buy has raised the price of the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC to $2,099 – the first time a major US retailer is directly selling an RTX 5080 for more than the $1,999 MSRP of the RTX 5090, VideoCardz reports. The ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC now costs 40 percent more than its […]

Lenovo’s leaked Yoga 9n could be the first RTX Spark-powered convertible laptop

A new leak suggests Lenovo is preparing the world’s first NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered convertible laptop, the Yoga 9n 2-in-1, featuring a 360-degree design and AI-focused hardware.

Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue
Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. …

Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.
Nvidia announced $750bn of AI deals. Its own credit market flinched.

Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg reported, accelerating a pattern of investment that critics say inflates demand and valuations across the sector. The response from the de…

Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker
Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker

Taiwan’s investigation into smuggled AI hardware, which began with Super Micro and had spent months working through the island’s distributors, has now reached inside Nvidia itself. On July 28, prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee as part of the prob…

Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports
Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports

For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says …

Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that So…

Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing

Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of…