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In response to US restrictions on chip exports, Chinese companies have been trying to develop their own hardware to power generative AI, but so far, have trailed behind. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Huawei is not only preparing to ship more of its existing Ascend 910B and 910C chips, but also to start testing a new 910D AI processor.

This week’s two big new RPG releases are now both available on Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud streaming service. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has been added to GeForce Now today, alongside Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Both are on PC Game Pass, so you can even access them on GeForce Now through Microsoft’s subscription service.

The US government told Nvidia on April 9th that the company would need a license to export its H20 AI chip to China, Reuters and CNBC report.

CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the first keynote for the expo, kicking off at 11PM ET on May 18th. Computex takes place in Taipei between May 20th and 23rd with the theme “AI Next,” a space that Nvidia has unquestionably dominated these last few years as global AI developers scramble to obtain its advanced training chips.

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Two sources speaking with NPR say that after that dinner, in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was in attendance, the White House put on hold additional restrictions to curb sales of Nvidia’s nerfed (but still powerful) H20 AI chips to China. In January, Bloomberg reported that the Trump Administration was exploring the restrictions but was just in the early stages.

If you’re quick, you might be able to snag an MSI-branded RTX 5070 graphics card before they eventually sell out. The two-fan Shadow 2X OC configuration costs $549.99, a price that’s delightful to see given that RTX 50-series cards of all sorts have become difficult to find in stock.

Nvidia’s latest GPU launch had PC gamers talking about a “paper launch” after limited quantities seemed to sell out instantly, but as PC World and Tom’s Hardware point out, there is one place you can grab a 5080 or 5090: this week’s GTC 2025 Conference.

After Apple promised last month to invest $500 billion in the US in the wake of Trump’s recent tariffs, Nvidia is matching suit. CEO Jensen Huang suggests he may be able to splash a few hundred billion on US manufacturing:

Aside from today’s AI announcements, Nvidia also updated the Game Ready GPU driver to version 572.83 and says it has significantly expanded the list of games where PC gamers can switch on DLSS 4 features like Multi Frame Generation, AI model upgrades, or additional performance modes.

In an effort to help preserve intellectual property and fight misinformation and misattribution, AI-generated video outputs from Nvidia’s Cosmos world foundation models will include SynthID digital watermarks. That makes Nvidia the first external user of Google DeepMind’s watermarking tech, announced back in 2023.

On March 18th, Nvidia will release a two-hour demo for Half-Life 2 owners, showing what its RTX 50 cards can do: full ray tracing, subsurface scattering for translucent skin, volumetric light through fog and smoke, physically-based materials, and Nvidia’s new neural shaders — which are also coming to DirectX for other developers in April.

Nvidia is revealing today that it has sold more RTX 50-series GPUs than 40-series during the first five weeks of launch. While we don’t have exact figures, Nvidia has supplied a chart that claims it has shipped 2x in that same amount of time. It’s also showing that more than 90 percent of RTX 50-series owners turn on DLSS, up from the overall 80 percent of all RTX owners that enable the upscaling technology.

Warcraft I Remastered, Warcraft II Remastered, and Warcraft III: Reforged are all coming to the service “this week,” according to a blog post from Nvidia.

After a test of its 18A process last year reportedly failed, Reuters says both Nvidia and Broadcom are actively testing it. The 18A process is a key to Intel’s plan to reestablish itself in the race to build new AI chips.

An Nvidia support page says the new hotfix (v572.65) drivers “are basically the same as the previous released version, with a small number of additional targeted fixes,” referring to issues with black screens on RTX 50 GPUs that drivers released earlier this week were also aimed at addressing.

As promised, Nvidia has just issued its latest GPU drivers (572.60), and they include fixes for “various black screen issues” affecting RTX 50-series cards. This latest driver also includes DLSS 4 support for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, support for 29 new G-Sync displays, and a bunch of fixes for Adobe Substance 3D Painter and Sampler.

Nvidia is hosting its GTC keynote on March 18th, and its keynote speaker has just revealed his talk. “Come to GTC and I’ll talk to you about Blackwell Ultra, Vera Rubin, and then show you the one click after that,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told analysts on the fiscal Q4 2025 earnings call.