Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom plan €1 billion AI factory in Germany
Munich data centre makeover aims to close Europe’s AI gap
Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom are teaming up to build one of Europe’s biggest artificial intelligence factories, a €1 billion ($1.15 billion) project designed to give the EU’s lagging AI sector a shot in the arm.
IBM swings the axe as AI “efficiency” drive bites
Thousands of suits to go before year’s end
Biggish Blue is swinging the axe again, with thousands of staff set to be shown the door before the year ends. The company insists it is part of “repositioning for the AI era.”
Intel and AMD jack up CPU prices
Blame AI
Reports from China suggest that Troubled Chipzilla and AMD have hiked CPU prices across multiple product lines this month, catching retailers and distributors flat-footed.
Qualcomm brews Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 on 2nm
New CPU layout and juiced-up performance
Qualcomm’s next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, is shaping up to be a proper kitchen-sink job. Fresh leaks suggest it will use TSMC’s swanky 2nm N2P process and feature an all-new CPU cluster design.
Apple secretly borrows Google’s brain for Siri’s next act
Forced to rely on Gemini because its own AI can barely tie its shoes
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has quietly admitted what everyone in tech already suspected, that Siri’s still as thick as mince, and only Google can save it.