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.