Microsoft’s copilot is unpopular
Vole's AI dreams tun to nightmares
Software King of the World, Microsoft’s big AI push is falling flat, with its Copilot assistant stuck at 20 million users a week while ChatGPT soars past 400 million. Despite stuffing Copilot into Windows, slapping a dedicated key on keyboards, and burning billions, the software giant cannot get punters to care.
TSMC unveils 9.5-reticle CoWoS packaging
Chip packaging just got absurdly massive
TSMC is pimping up its CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) tech so that can cram an obscene amount of silicon into a single unit.
Radeon RX 9070 GRE leaks show cut-down specs
PowerColor boards spotted
The first images of AMD’s rumoured Radeon RX 9070 GRE have leaked online, and it looks like it will be a cheaper, nerfed version of its RDNA 4 lineup—if it ever escapes China.
Chipzilla still stuck in tar pit
Meteor Lake flops, Raptor Lake surges
Troubled Chipzilla's quarterly results show its flashy AI PC chips like Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake aren’t selling, and there's not enough factory space to supply the older models that customers want.
AMD Open Sauces GPU virtualisation for Instinct
Radeon might be next
AMD has open-sourced its GPU-IOV Module which lets Instinct accelerators play nice with virtual machines—and hinted it's coming to Radeon cards too. This means SR-IOV support on client GPUs might finally claw its way out of the void.
Aussie radio uses an AI DJ for six months
No one noticed
Sydney's CADA radio station ran a weekday show hosted by a chirpy voiced AI named “Thy” for six months and forgot to mention it to anyone.
Industry is built on loaning cash to buy Nvidia chips
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street have lobbed more than $11 billion at “neocloud” outfits like CoreWeave, Crusoe and Lambda Labs, betting that a warehouse full of Nvidia chips is as good as gold.
Apple flees China, eyes India for US iPhone assembly
Tariffs push Job’s Mob to double down on Indian production
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is scrambling to shift all US-bound iPhone assembly to India by 2026, as US tariff tantrums make China too hot to handle.
TSMC flashes 1.4nm tech
Big speed gains but no SPR for now
TSMC has rolled out its new A14 node, marking its first foray into the 1.4 nm-class manufacturing tech, and it’s already boasting serious gains in performance, power efficiency, and logic density.
SK Hynix doubles profit on AI chip boom
Brushes off tariff fears
SK Hynix, Nvidia’s go-to for high-bandwidth memory, has posted a 158 per cent leap in quarterly operating profit, hitting 7.4 trillion won (€5.1 billion), while shrugging off the usual US trade panic.