Intel CEO pick tangled in PLA-linked Chinese investments
Lip-Bu Tan's deep China ties
Silicon Valley investor Lip-Bu Tan, who was tapped to steer troubled Chipzilla out of its tailspin, holds financial stakes in hundreds of Chinese tech outfits, some with direct links to the People’s Liberation Army.
AMD revs up Dragon Range
New CPUs promise desktop-class punch and RDNA 2 graphics on the go
AMD’s Dragon Range is breathing fire again. The chipmaker has just unleashed its Ryzen 8000HX mobility CPUs — a refresh of the 7000HX lineup — aimed squarely at high-end gaming laptops and mobile workstations.
Troubled Chipzilla lands shock Nintendo gig
Will Fab Nvidia chip for Switch 3
Chipzilla may be crawling through market muck, but according to the dark satanic rumour mill it's just landed a big order.
Tariff chaos fuels robot revival
Volatility, but automation’s future looks bulletproof
The tariffs crisis might be a migraine for many, but it's opening some tasty new doors for the AI, robotics and automation sector.
Smartphones to outnumber humans
Chinese brands blitz old guard
By late 2027 or early 2028, the planet will have more smartphones than people, and the industry's old titans are watching the tide turn.
China export curbs on H20 AI chips safe
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s White House has quietly shelved a looming crackdown on Nvidia’s H20 chip exports to China, just days after the GPU peddler’s CEO Jensen Huang dined at Mar-a-Lago — where seats went for a $1 million a head.
Firms flounder with basic AI data prep
Most data to messy or misplaced
According to a new study by Nasuni, only one in five firms reckons their data is fit for AI use, meaning a paltry 27 per cent of artificial intelligence projects are delivering anything close to a return on investment.
Amazon scrambles skyward to challenge Starlink
Bezos puts a rocket up SpaceX
After years of puff and prep, Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper is lobbing its first 27 satellites into orbit in a $10 billion (£7.8 billion) swing at Starlink, the Elon [Roman Salute] Musk-powered behemoth that lords over the skies.
Red Devil in Spectral White color option
PowerColor has introduced the latest Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards, the Red Devil Spectral White AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB. This limited edition version will be coming in a full-white color scheme, including the PCB, shroud, backplate, and even the I/O shield, as well as packing all the high-end features of the Red Devil series.
Based on high-speed 64GB DDR5-8000 modules
G.Skill, a well-known when it comes to memory modules, has announced new high capacity 128GB kits that hit DDR5-8000 speeds. These will be a part of G.Skill's Trident Z5 and Trident Z5 Royal NEO series and are based on new 64GB DDR5 modules. In addition, G.Skill is bringing new DDR5-9000 64GB (2x32GB) memory kits