Epyc chips fuel AMD’s stunning datacenter comeback

AMD has pulled off a massive comeback in the server CPU market, snatching half the pie from Intel in just a few quarters.

AMD and Nvida forced to swallow higher prices

Getting cutting-edge chips out of TSMC’s US fabs is proving far pricier than sticking with its tried-and-tested Taiwan plants, but big tech doesn’t have much choice right now.

Performance-tuned distro joins Deep Link in the corporate graveyard

Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips.

Entry-level CPU lineup ditches ray tracing

Troubled Chipzilla is prepping its Wildcat Lake CPUs to replace the tired Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake offerings in the bargain-basement segment.

Arrow Lake chips get cheaper

Troubled Chipzilla is knocking down prices on its budget-tier Core Ultra 5 processors, with the Ultra 5 225 and Ultra 5 225F seeing hefty discounts across US and EU retailers.

Rumoured to be 55 per cent

Analysts at KeyBanc reckon Intel’s 18A yields have inched up to 55 per cent which is a modest five per cent improvement quarter-on-quarter.

AI chip boom lifts orders, but tariffs and uncertainty bite

Dutch chipmaking kit supplier ASML has shrugged off some tariff fears with better-than-expected results, though it is hardly brimming with confidence about the future.

Axe in the corridors

Troubled Chipzilla is showing no mercy as it swings the axe on more than 5,000 employees across four US states in its latest bid to slash costs.

Enthusiast class SoCs with massive iGPUs and cache

Troubled Chipzilla appears to be gearing up for a proper enthusiast class punch with Nova Lake AX, a new SoC designed to tackle AMD’s Halo APUs head on.

Zen 5 cores, DDR5-6400 support and eye-watering prices

AMD is about to unleash its Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors, with retail availability kicking off this month.