DeepSeek's Silicon Gambit: Chip War 2.0
The AI lab that wiped $1T from Nvidia's valuation is now building its own silicon. U.S. export controls accelerated exactly what they were designed to prevent. Jensen should be worried.
The AI lab that wiped $1T from Nvidia's valuation is now building its own silicon. U.S. export controls accelerated exactly what they were designed to prevent. Jensen should be worried.

DeepSeek's efficiency-first approach is undermining Nvidia's core pitch: that you need ever-more GPUs. With R1 trained for $5.6M on export-controlled H800s, the Blackwell sales deck just got significantly harder to close.

TSMC says the GPU shortage lasts another 18 months. AI startups are screwed, Big Tech is hoarding silicon, and your GPT-5 dreams just got postponed.

AMD's 153-billion-transistor MI300X posts competitive benchmarks against NVIDIA's H100. The AI chip monopoly just got its first real challenger—but software remains AMD's Achilles heel.