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Nvidia is one of the world’s biggest computer chip companies, best known for its line of graphics processing units or GPUs. Although the firm had its start in the world of consumer gaming, in recent years it’s grown into a true tech titan with diverse investments in self-driving cars, cloud computing, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence. The parallel processing power of Nvidia’s GPUs has proven to be particularly good at machine learning tasks, and its chips are in high demand not only from AI researchers but any business with an interest in artificial intelligence. From 2015 onwards, Nvidia’s share price grew sharply, allowing the company to make some key acquisitions, including UK chip designer ARM, which it announced it would purchase in September 2020 for $40 billion. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, who is currently the firm’s CEO. Known for his leather jackets and upbeat corporate presentations, Huang is a familiar figure to anyone interested in tech.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Nvidia says it can sell AI chips to China again.

The company has been “assured” by the US government that licenses to sell its H20 GPU will be granted, and hopes to resume deliveries “soon” — along with launching a new RTX Pro GPU for China too.

Nvidia has been lobbying for the right to sell the H20 to Chinese customers, since that’s what it was designed for — it’s a stripped back chip built to match US export controls.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia briefly became the first $4 trillion company today.

When Nvidia’s share price rose beyond $164 on Wednesday morning, it was the first company to have a market cap of over $4 trillion. It closed the day up 1.8 percent at $162.88, leaving its current total at $3.97 trillion, leading Microsoft ($3.7 trillion) and Apple ($3.1 trillion).

The AI boom and demand for its chips have quickly increased the company’s value in the last few years, which only passed $1 trillion two years ago.

Stock chart for NVDA on June 9th, 2025.
Image: CNBC
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang talks Switch 2.

In a video posted by Nintendo, Huang highlights some of the capabilities brought to the Switch 2 through its custom Nvidia chip:

It brings together three breakthroughs: the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device, full hardware ray-tracing, high dynamic range for brighter highlights and deeper shadows, and an architecture that supports backward compatibility.

Huang adds that the chip also offers “dedicated AI processors to sharpen and enhance gameplay in real time.”

Tested: Nvidia’s GeForce Now just breathed new life into my Steam Deck

There’s a native app for SteamOS now, and it’s pretty great.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia’s gaming business just had its best quarter ever.

Too early to see whether the RTX 5060 review debacle will wake gamers up, but blackscreens and melting power cables didn’t have a huge impact — Nvidia just reported record gaming revenue of $3.76 billion in Q1 2026 (aka February thru April).

Trump did slash Nvidia’s overall profits by restricting H20 exports to China, yet Nvidia still made another $18.7 billion in pure profit in Q1. Even though gaming is booming, Nvidia’s networking is still bigger: it grew to $5 billion in revenue this past quarter.

Here’s how each of Nvidia’s businesses are doing from quarter to quarter to quarter.
Here’s how each of Nvidia’s businesses are doing from quarter to quarter to quarter.
Image: Nvidia
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
“We will not play those games.”

In a 22-minute video, Gamers Nexus talks about “Nvidia’s last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus [Multi Frame Generation] 4X pressure from the company” and how “Nvidia has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver fixes just a few bugs.

Its recent updates addressed a slew of problems that have emerged following the launch of Nvidia’s RTX-50 series cards in January. But today’s 576.40 driver just includes a fix for some Asus displays booting to black screens, a stutter on LG TVs with G-Sync enabled, and “random stability issues” in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Nvidia’s new Game Ready driver also optimizes your PC for Doom: The Dark Ages, which will support idTech8 ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation when it launches on May 15th.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Is this the Nintendo Switch 2’s CPU?

YouTuber Geekerwan has obtained what appears to be a Switch 2 motherboard component for about $150 on Xianyu, which he describes as a Chinese eBay equivalent.

Even without being able to power it up, microscopic evaluation suggests that the “T239” chip was taped out in 2021 with Nvidia’s Ampere tech. Combined with leaked clockspeed specs, they were able to demonstrate some performance estimates on current games, but maybe we’ll get even more hardware details soon.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Huawei rumored to have an Nvidia-rivaling AI chip.

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.

It’s reportedly aiming to surpass the popular H100 chip Nvidia launched in 2022, although the 910D is reportedly “less power-efficient.”

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Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Oblivion Remastered and Expedition 33 arrive on GeForce Now.

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.

Nvidia’s GPU drivers are a messNvidia’s GPU drivers are a mess
Tom Warren
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Nvidia expects a $5.5 billion hit for exporting H20 processors to China.

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.

The charges are “associated with H20 products for inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves,” according to an Nvidia SEC filing.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Nvidia will open Computex this year.

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.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang alongside text about Nvidia’s Computex keynote.
The leather jacket is being dusted off once again.
Image: Nvidia / Computex
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
It sure looks like Nvidia is about to announce its more affordable RTX 5060 Ti GPUs.

Just look at VideoCardz’s homepage right now.

Image: VideoCardz
Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
A $1 million-per-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago is how you get AI chips to China.

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.

Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
An RTX 5070 that’s in stock, and at MSRP? Pinch me.

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.

Maybe this is a sign that graphics cards’ stock situation is improving? Or, perhaps it’s a sign that more people are buying the 5070’s direct competitor, the similarly priced, yet slightly faster AMD Radeon RX 9070.

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Buying your Nvidia RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 from a food truck isn’t easy or cheap.

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.

Other than news about various AI projects, Nvidia is selling 1,000 of each variant for the standard price from its Gear Store Mobile Truck at spontaneous times... but only for attendees who may have already paid as much as $1,145 for a one-day conference pass.

Picture of the Nvidia GTC 2025 Gear Store, hosted inside a green food truck.
Nvidia’s GPU-stocked Gear Store for GTC 2025 attendees.
Image: Nvidia AI Developer (X)
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Nvidia is ready to spend big in the States.

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:

“Overall, we will procure, over the course of the next four years, probably half a trillion dollars worth of electronics in total. And I think we can easily see ourselves manufacturing several hundred billion of it here in the US.”

Huang also praised Huawei’s AI efforts, just days after Nvidia launched its own new AI superchips.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia’s latest driver enables DLSS 4 override options for more games.

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.

Over 100 games and apps now support DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and it says overrides for 62 titles have been added or updated since the last driver release. Check here for the full list.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Nvidia adopts Google’s SynthID watermarking.

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.

Update: Nvidia now says only video outputs will be watermarked, not text and audio as originally told to The Verge.