Wall Street’s mixed reaction to Lip-Bu Tan’s appointment
Intel shares up 12 per cent
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street had mixed reactions to Tan’s coronation as Chipzilla’s new King.
Beijing boffins create chips from Bismuth
More digestible than silicon
Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a non-silicon based transistor that’s faster and more efficient than anything out there.
Nvidia’s Blackwell spin spotted
Sales not as good as claimed
Nvidia is trying to convince everyone that its shiny new RTX Blackwell cards have outsold the previous generation 2:1 in the first five weeks.
Apple's elite fanboys admit it is in trouble
Appocalypse now
Job’s Mob is in deep trouble and even its biggest fanboys are starting to smell the rot.
Smartwatch bubble bursts
Calling time on another Apple product
It seems the smartwatch bubble has burst, with global sales taking a tumble for the first time—largely thanks to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple dropping the ball.
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 and Ryzen AI 7 350 processors
Sapphire is apparently looking to make a return to the mini-PC market, and is showcasing two new Edge AI mini-PC series SKUs at the Embedded World 2025.
Mark Klein has died
The unlikely hero who stood up to the government
Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who blew the whistle on one of the most extensive illegal surveillance operations in American history, has died. He was 79.
Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i
Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.
Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.”
Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw computational muscle to examine how cells repair DNA damage.
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”
Boffins don’t back the hype
Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.