Builder.ai’s ‘chief wizard’ conjured $175mn illusion
Company vanishes in a puff of smoke
Sachin Dev Duggal [pictured] called himself the “chief wizard” of Builder.ai but now his spells have failed and the once-hyped unicorn has gone poof.
Foxconn builds $1.5bn plant in India
Apple's iPhone supply chain shifts further from China to Chennai
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is moving more of its iPhone supply chain into India, with its long-time partner Foxconn dropping $1.5 billion on a new display module plant near Chennai.
MSI wants to stop motherboards from stabbing you
PinSafe Design ditches PCB spikes for smooth hands and fewer shorts
MSI has finally admitted what every PC builder already knows: motherboards are tiny metal sadists. At Computex 2025, the company revealed its new PinSafe Design, aimed at ending the age-old bloodsport of assembling a rig with your bare hands.
SK hynix stacks 321-layer NAND for AI boost
Thinner, faster UFS 4.1 lands in 2026
SK hynix is doubling down on its love affair with stacking things high by stuffing 321 layers into its latest NAND chips, making its new UFS 4.1 modules thinner, slightly more efficient, and apparently clever enough to know what you’re doing before you do.
Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock
Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.
Asus crams Nvidia's petaflop monster into a dull PC
ET900N G3 is a supercomputer with a DVD player
Asus has pulled a fast one on the performance PC world by hiding Nvidia's GB300 Ultra chip in a chassis so dull it is like watching paint dry on a beige wall in an insurance office while listening to someone explain how envelopes are made.
Equal1 unveils plug-and-play silicon qubit system
Quantum power into a standard rack server
Boffin's from Equal1 have just emerged from their smoke filled labs with a box which can use both quantum and traditional computing.
AMD unloads 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX
Zen 5 monster aims straight at Chipzilla's Xeons
AMD took to Computex to unveil its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, and it's going for the throat. The show's star is the Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a hulking 96-core, 192-thread silicon slab aimed squarely at the workstation elite.
Apple blocking Microsoft's Xbox store attempts
Vole backs Epic in its scrap with the Fruity Cargo Cult
The software king of the world Microsoft has complained to a court that the fruity cargo cult Apple has been doing its best to stop it launching an Xbox-branded mobile game store.
Intel's Maxsun monster: dual Arc Pro B60 GPU with 48GB
Chipzilla slaps two GPUs on one card, hopes someone notices
Troubled Chipzilla and board partner Maxsun showed off a curious slab of silicon at Computex 2025, unveiling the Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU 48GB card.