Arizona Fab’s profits fall off a cliff

TSMC’s big Arizona adventure was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US chip industry, although it now looks more like an expensive lesson in why fabs prefer cheaper postcodes.

Why does it even exist?

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Apple is about to walk away from its Mac Pro range.

Diamond Rapids loses its low-end twin as the server world shifts to fatter memory pipes.

Troubled Chipzilla has binned the eight-channel Diamond Rapids design that was supposed to replace today’s Granite Rapids-SP Xeon 6700P and 6500P chips.

$10,000 down the loo

A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.

Zelnick reckons consoles stay alive, but the real action moves elsewhere.

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick fired a shot across the bow by saying the games business is drifting toward PCs as the next decade rolls in.

IoT junk kit gangs up for the biggest cloud-crunching flood yet.

Microsoft engineers said the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps distributed denial-of-service barrage against Azure and sprayed more than 3.6 billion packets per second at one unlucky Australian endpoint.

Thiel and other mega-rich investors dump their stakes amid fraying nerves

Panic spread through trading floors after venture capitalist and Trump cheerleader Peter Thiel flogged all the Nvidia shares he held.

Stockpiling, shortages and silly prices are now the industry’s default setting.

The memory world has wandered straight into a supply shock, and every big name is now stuffing its warehouses like doomsday preppers.

Packaging kit gets unexpected love as TSMC struggles to keep up

Troubled Chipzilla's EMIB and Foveros packaging tricks, long overshadowed by TSMC’s dominance, are finally being treated as viable alternatives.

Hopes a few nanometres will save its bacon

Samsung Electronics has finally bragged about real two-nanometer mass production results, rather than mumbling vague promises.