
Huang says UK AI dream still running on fumes
Billion-pound pledge won't fix years of underinvestment*
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang took the stage at London Tech Week and told the UK it’s miles behind on the digital infrastructure needed to make its AI ambitions real.

US tech goes bargain shopping in Blighty
Trio of billion-dollar raids signal UK market’s vulnerability
As we predicted, three American tech outfits went on a bargain hunt and snapped up British firms which were as cheap as vinegar-splashed chips.

Intel vets break ranks to build the biggest, baddest CPU
Startup dares to outgun Chipzilla with RISC-V tech
A group of former top Chipzilla engineers have ditched the corporate safety net to build what they claim will be "the biggest, baddest CPU in the world."

Intel boasts chip package the size of a dinner plate
Trying to make AI chips big enough to solve Moore's Law
Troubled Chipzilla used the IEEE Electronic Components and Packaging Technology Conference to brag about new packaging tech that glues together processors into something massive enough to satisfy AI’s silicon lust.

UK tech under siege as Wall Street looms
Alphawave, Globaldata and Craneware may not stay British much longer
Three of Britain’s brightest tech stars could be heading for the exit this week as vultures circle the City and the London Stock Exchange continues to haemorrhage firms.

Alienware’s “Area-51 Brick Kit” is not a PC, it’s Lego
It can't run Crysis
The Grey Box Shifter Michael Dell's gaming brand Alienware has decided the world needs a Lego version of its Area-51 desktop and is flogging it for a whopping 9,999 ARP, or Alienware Reward Points, for those not neck-deep in Dell’s loyalty programme.

Sam Altman rolls his eyeball-scanning orb into the UK
Silicon Valley’s favourite techno-futurist wants your iris
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project has decided that what Britons need in 2025 is to queue up in London and have their eyeballs scanned by a shiny metal orb.

Siri stumbles as Apple botches AI race
Apple Intelligence flounders while rivals eat its lunch
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is having a right old mess of it trying to make Siri less of a clueless digital butler and more like an actual AI assistant.

Microsoft's new Xbox handhelds aim at the Switch and Steam Deck
Takes aim at the portable gaming throne with Windows
Microsoft just waded into handheld gaming with both feet, taking direct aim at the Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve’s Steam Deck.

GPU market stumbles as Discrete GPU penetration flattens
Jon Peddie blames Trump trade chaos for slowdown
Global PC graphics market took a knock in the first quarter of 2025, with GPU shipments sliding to 68.8 million units, down 12 per cent from the previous quarter, according to the latest data from Jon Peddie Research.