Taiwanese foundry reckons 2025 growth nothing to write home about

Wafer baker UMC has warned that its third quarter might not deliver the usual seasonal sparkle, despite a slight bump in shipments.

Intel threatens shutdown if no buyers emerge for new manufacturing tech

Troubled Chipzilla has once again waved the warning flag over its $28 billion chipmaking venture in Ohio, saying it may stop all work unless it can land external customers for its 14A process node.

Eyes AI server push and US expansion

MSI has smashed past the 10 million mark in motherboard shipments for the first time, closing in on rival Gigabyte and hitting a major milestone in the consumer PC space.

More layoffs, fab delays and yet another AI pivot

Intel is hacking away at its workforce and torching grandiose European fab plans in Germany and Poland in a last-ditch effort to look relevant.

Epyc chips fuel AMD’s stunning datacenter comeback

AMD has pulled off a massive comeback in the server CPU market, snatching half the pie from Intel in just a few quarters.

AMD and Nvida forced to swallow higher prices

Getting cutting-edge chips out of TSMC’s US fabs is proving far pricier than sticking with its tried-and-tested Taiwan plants, but big tech doesn’t have much choice right now.

Performance-tuned distro joins Deep Link in the corporate graveyard

Intel has axed Clear Linux, its high-performance Linux distro that spent the last decade squeezing every drop of speed out of x86-64 chips.

Entry-level CPU lineup ditches ray tracing

Troubled Chipzilla is prepping its Wildcat Lake CPUs to replace the tired Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake offerings in the bargain-basement segment.

Arrow Lake chips get cheaper

Troubled Chipzilla is knocking down prices on its budget-tier Core Ultra 5 processors, with the Ultra 5 225 and Ultra 5 225F seeing hefty discounts across US and EU retailers.

Rumoured to be 55 per cent

Analysts at KeyBanc reckon Intel’s 18A yields have inched up to 55 per cent which is a modest five per cent improvement quarter-on-quarter.