Nvidia boss promises AI renaissance for Europe
Huang reckons continent’s GPU drought is nearly over
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has assured Europe that its embarrassing lack of AI computing grunt will be sorted soon, as the region scrambles to catch up with the US and China’s AI supremacy.
Meta to splash $15bn on Scale AI stake
Zuckerberg goes headhunting to close AI gap
Meta is reportedly throwing $15 billion at Scale AI for a 49 per cent stake, desperately trying to headhunt is way up the AI pecking order after being left in the dust by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
SASE market climbs
Buyers tire of juggling vendors
Bean counters at Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that the secure access service edge (SASE) market jumped 17 per cent year-over-year to $2.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025.
Micron beats SK hynix to HBM4 sampling
Micron claims pole position in high-bandwidth memory race
US memory outfit, Micron claims to have leapfrogged SK hynix in the HBM race by slipping samples of its 12-layer 36GB HBM4 to key clients.
IBM boasts quantum masterplan
Biggish Blue bets big on fault-tolerant qubits
Biggish Blue has swaggered into the quantum saloon waving a roadmap it says will make AI look like a warm-up act.
If we can't get it to go it does not exist
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has thrown its toys out of the pram again, in the form of a gloomy research paper declaring that artificial general intelligence might just be a dead end. That is, of course, after finding itself embarrassingly behind rivals who have functioning first generation AI.
EVGA boards choke on RTX 50 GPUs
Users resort to tape and prayer
Users of EVGA motherboards are discovering that their once-trusted gear is now allergic to Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series graphics cards.
Taiwan dollar smacks TSMC’s May revenue
Despite record-breaking streak
Chipmaker TSMC took a hit in May as the new Taiwan dollar surged, taking a sizeable bite out of TSMC’s revenue.
ChatGPT falls over worldwide, users rage
Outage sparks meltdown as OpenAI scrambles to fix it
ChatGPT fell on its face yesterday bringing misery to both free-riders and those daft enough to shell out for Plus. The outage saw thousands of users staring into the digital void as OpenAI’s servers decided they'd had enough.