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.
AMD U-turns on RDNA driver fiasco
Red faces in Radeon land after driver chaos and user revolt
After a torrent of angry users, botched uploads and contradictory statements, AMD has published a full web page promising to keep supporting its older Radeon graphics cards after all.
Microsoft throws $9.7 billion at crypto miners for AI muscle
IREN deal gives Redmond a mountain of Nvidia GPUs
Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided that the best way to stay on top of the AI arms race is to buy its way there.
China provides cheap juice for AI datacentres
Beijing cuts power bills for data centres that ditch Nvidia
China has decided that if its homegrown AI chips can’t beat Nvidia on power, it’ll just make electricity cheap enough not to care.
Palantir boasts war profits while investors leg it
AI arms dealer raises forecast as global bloodshed boosts bottom line
Anti-christ fearing Peter Thiel’s spook-friendly outfit Palantir is rubbing its hands as war and instability send its sales rocketing, even if the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are suddenly having second thoughts.
TSMC’s 2nm race heats up
Qualcomm and MediaTek join Apple at the front line
The semiconductor arms race has entered another round, with TSMC speeding ahead on its 2nm roadmap.
Gigabyte smashes DDR5 records
Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE
Gigabyte has grabbed the top three spots in the global DDR5 overclocking leaderboard, thanks to its Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard and a touch of frosty engineering.
Trump shuts door on Nvidia's Blackwell chips for China
US blocks AI exports once again
Nvidia's hopes of sliding back into China’s lucrative AI market have been crushed, as President Trump confirmed that the company’s new Blackwell chips will not be cleared for export.