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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Broadcom rakes in VMware cash and bets big on AI
Turns out that threatening customers for using software they paid for works
Broadcom’s decision to swallow VMware and then do its best to infuriate its suppliers and customers seems to have paid off with the outfit posting $15 billion in second quarter revenue, up 20 per cent from last year.
Chipzilla still chasing TSMC with 18A foundry push
Intel bangs the drum on 18A node
Troubled Chipzilla is still flogging its foundry turnaround plan, this time at its annual Direct Connect bash, where CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his top brass tried to convince the world that Intel Foundry Services is back on track.
AI threats and zero-trust mandates are driving a $26bn boom
Beancounters working for the Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that while everyone is banking on about hardware cybersecurity, particularly of the cloudy sort, is where the cash is.