Tariff chaos gives CPU market a surprise jolt
Panic buying boosts shipments
Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.
Apple plans sneaky iPhone 17 Pro price hike
Apple ditches 128GB model so it can charge more
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is getting ready to pull a fast one with the iPhone 17 Pro by scrapping the 128GB version, forcing buyers to start at a “base” 256GB model costing $1,049.
Uncle Sam sneaks tracking devices into AI server shipments
Dell, Super Micro gear laced with spy kit as US hunts chip smugglers
The US has been tucking location trackers into shipments of advanced AI chips and servers, hoping to catch them being smuggled into China.
Pentagon torches $800m in working HR projects
Accenture and Oracle binned so Salesforce, Palantir and Workday can have a go
The US Department of Defence is chucking out two human resources software projects worth more than $800 million even though they were nearly finished because someone wanted to give their favourite contractors a turn.
DeepSeek’s R2 model delayed
Beijing’s homegrown chip dream still can’t train properly
Chinese AI outfit DeepSeek has been forced to eat humble pie after its shiny new model flopped on Huawei’s Ascend chips, dragging a planned May launch into the long grass and handing rivals the chance to surge ahead.
Foxconn surprises Wall Street
iPhone assembly into second place
Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, did much better than expectations with its second quarter numbers.
Nvidia rolls out 7bn-parameter AI brain for robots
Cosmos Reason makes robots think like humans
Nvidia has decided your next robot needs to think a little more like you, or at least the better bits of you, with the launch of its new inference visual language model “Cosmos Reason.”
Samsung rolls out 500Hz OLED gaming monitor
Adds curvy new Odyssey G7 to its display arsenal
Samsung has decided gamers still aren’t clicking enough buttons per second, so it’s unveiled the Odyssey OLED G6, which it claims is the world’s first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor, alongside two new Odyssey G7 models.
Arm brings DLSS-style AI graphics to Android
Neural Super Sampling promises sharper mobile gaming without torching your battery
Graphics on your Android phone might finally stop looking like pixel soup, thanks to Arm’s latest Neural Super Sampling tech, shown off at SIGGRAPH 2025.
Musk threatens to sue Apple over Grok snub
Claims Cupertino favours OpenAI
Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, accusing it of stacking the App Store rankings against his Grok chatbot.