White House wants 10 per cent of Intel
Chips Act shake-up
The Trump administration has confirmed it is going to take a 10 per cent slice of Troubled Chipzilla.
Phison blames Windows 11 update for SSD meltdowns
Promises fixes via partners after drives start coughing up errors
Phison has confirmed that Windows 11’s latest security updates are trashing SSDs, particularly those based on its PS5012-E12 controller, after a wave of failures was reported by users, mostly in Japan.
ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
Ramps up in-house CPU plans
Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.
Microsoft says AI agents will kill off SaaS by 2030
Lamanna reckons business software is already a walking corpse
Software King of the World, Microsoft has declared that traditional business software is as good as dead and is betting big that AI agents will have finished the job by 2030.
Trump regime forces UK to back down on Apple backdoor
Brits drop encryption demand
The Trump administration has browbeaten the UK government into dropping its demand for a backdoor into Apple’s encrypted data, in what is being spun in Washington as a “victory” for big American technology companies privacy.
Nvidia jacks up H20 chip prices to pay Trump tax
Price increases passed on to China
Nvidia is hiking the price of its H20 AI chips by 18 per cent to bankroll a Trump-approved shake-down of its Chinese business.
SoftBank set to rescue Intel
Intel gets $2 billion lifeline while slashing its own investments
SoftBank is chucking US$2 billion at Troubled Chipzilla in what looks like an effort to revive its sagging foundry business and rekindle interest in its battle with the mighty TSMC.
But numbers don’t add up
Chip-making giant TSMC has been bragging about a mountain of taxpayer cash supposedly rolling in from four countries, but the numbers look a bit suspect.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5080-class GPUs on the cloud
Nvidia prepared quite a few big announcements for Gamescom 2025, and one of the more important ones is the update to its Geforce NOW cloud gaming platform, which includes the addition of Blackwell architecture to the platform, the introduction of Install-to-Play, new Cinematic Quality Streaming Mode, more devices, and Discord integration. Nvidia is also adding a few new connectivity and mobile network partners.
Nvidia RTX and DLSS 4 coming to more big games and apps
Nvidia claims over 175 DLSS 4 games and apps available
As a part of its big Gamescom 2025 reveal, Nvidia has announced that DLSS 4 is now available in over 175 games and apps, and both ray tracing and DLSS 4 support will be coming soon to some big titles like Resident Evil Requiem, Phantom Blade Zero, and Borderlands 4.