The Trump administration is considering converting $10.9 billion in CHIPS Act grants into a 10% equity stake in Intel, while SoftBank acquires $2 billion. Together, a $12 billion boost that signals both political and commercial confidence in the struggling chipmaker. However, whether this is enough to accelerate the delayed U.S. fabs in time to secure major foundry customers remains uncertain.

Nvidia has launched a limited-time promotion where you can get Borderlands 4 and the game’s pre-order bonus for free with select RTX 50 series graphics cards, laptops, and desktops.

Nvidia is reportedly preparing two China-specific Blackwell accelerators — the B30A for AI training and the RTX 6000D for inference — that will outperform the HGX H20 and L20 PCIe while staying within U.S. export limits.

Sam Altman has cautioned against the use of export controls and has warned that China can probably build inference capacity faster than the U.S..