Memory & Storage · HBM supply crunch forces Nvidia to cut Rubin Ultra memory 75%, may drive higher GPU volumes

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Google’s AI Shakeup, Nvidia Weighs Putting Less Memory in Rubin Chips, Meta’s New AI Coding Tools

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HBM supply crunch forces Nvidia to cut Rubin Ultra memory 75%, may drive higher GPU volumes

2026-08-07 · 5 company · 6 thematic

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rob toews

Partner at Radical Ventures, an AI-focused venture capital firm. He led the firm's investment in Discovery Loop, a startup founded by former Google AI leaders Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le. He evaluates nearly all 'neo lab' investment opportunities and passes on the vast majority.

phoebe liu

Covers Nvidia and semiconductor supply chain for The Information; broke the story on Nvidia testing Rubin Ultra with reduced memory.

max weinbach

Technology analyst who had early access to Meta's Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2; provides hands-on comparison of AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

martin peers

Writes the nightly briefing for The Information; analyzed Google's AI leadership shakeup as formalizing existing operational reality rather than a disruptive change.

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