A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

Brace yourself: Nvidia and AMD GPU prices may rise as top AIBs adjust costs

A new report suggests GPU prices may soon climb as NVIDIA and AMD partners face rising DDR6 and DDR7 costs, leaving consumers to spot changes through retail listings.
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Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic.

Laptops featuring Nvidia’s ARM-based chips may finally hit stores near you in Q1 2026

Supply chain sources have revealed that Nvidia could debut the first laptops featuring its ARM-based N1 and N1X chips in Q1 2026.
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NVIDIA’S RTX 5070 Ti end of life may hit you now

The RTX 5070 Ti is vanishing from shelves as ASUS moves its cards to end of life status and retailers report supply droughts. Prices are already rising in the US and Australia.
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AMD has new chips, but RAM prices are the real boss fight

AMD’s 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling.
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IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient Is Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang
IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient Is Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang, cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, is the 2026 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. The IEEE honorary member is being recognized for his “leadership in the development of graphics processing units and their application to scientific computing and ar…

Asus now claims it’s not dropping the RTX 5070 Ti amid memory shortages
Asus now claims it’s not dropping the RTX 5070 Ti amid memory shortages

The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and blaming “incomplete information” from its own Asus PR representatives. “The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX […]

Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti as the memory shortage squeezes supply
Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti as the memory shortage squeezes supply

On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus “explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as such, they have placed the model into end-of-life status.” They added that the same applies to Asus’s 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and mentioned how […]

The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China

The Trump administration formalized its 25% cut of H200 chip sales in China with a tariff that applies to certain semiconductors.