China creates x86 supercomputer monster
AMD lets Hydons be Hygons
China has stirred the silicon pot again, and fused CPU design and server manufacturing into a single beast with ambitions far beyond web hosting.
Chipzilla shows off CPU watercooling slab
Prototype microchannel cooler targets 1,000W heat
Troubled Chipzilla is playing with water again, this time showing off an in-package liquid cooler at its Foundry Direct Connect shindig. Rather than slapping a chunky block on top of an IHS, this design squirts coolant directly over the silicon, using copper microchannels to hit only the bits that get seriously toasty.
AMD chucks AI at FSR Redstone
Catching up with Nvidia DLSS
AMD is finally catching on that AI might actually be useful for something more than buzzwords. At Computex 2025, the chipmaker gave gamers a glimpse of FidelityFX Super Resolution Redstone, the next big leap for its upscaling tech that’s been trailing Nvidia’s DLSS for years.
Troubled Chipzilla hit by €776,000 fraud
Cooked up by insider and dodgy supplier
Troubled Chipzilla has found itself embroiled in a financial scandal in Israel after a former employee and a crooked component supplier allegedly siphoned off more than NIS 3 million, or about €776,000, in a long-running scam that went unnoticed for more than a year.
Tactile buttons and retro cool bite Job’s Mob where it hurts
The TCL Flip 4 5G is proof that touchscreens didn’t cure cancer, no matter how much Job’s Mob tried to convince the world otherwise. The so-called revolution of endless swipes and all-glass phones has started to wobble, and in strolls the humble flip phone with a smug little click.
Nvidia RTX 5090 prototype guzzles 2,400W
Leaked card sample is more power station than GPU
An engineering prototype of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has surfaced. This early design, posted by Twitter/X user @yuuki\_ans, sports four 16-pin power connectors and looks like something a Bond villain would use to light up a volcano lair.
Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors
Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks.
Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p
AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.
Redmond accused of censoring internal dissent over Israeli military contracts
Software King of the World, Microsoft has started to censor internal emails mentioning “genocide,” “Gaza,” “Palestine,” or anti-Israel activism.
Touchscreen cosplay meets overkill performance at Computex
MSI’s Computex 2025 stand wasn’t short on spectacle, but one of its gaudier displays was the MEG Vision X AI, a prebuilt gaming PC with a 13-inch front-facing touchscreen pretending to be an “AI Human Machine Interface.”