Nvidia tapes out Rubin chips
Huang reckons Rubin will reshape compute from the ground up
Nvidia supreme dalek Jensen Huang has confirmed that his outfit is already elbows-deep in its next big AI architecture, Rubin, which is apparently going to be a full-blown “revolution” for the compute world.
Apple exec accused of creating a toxic hellhole
Star fitness VP at Job’s Mob allegedly bullied staff and got protected
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s golden fitness guru Jay Blahnik [pictured], once hailed as the genius behind the Apple Watch’s double entendre “Close Your Rings” gimmick, has found himself at the centre of a growing storm over claims of bullying, sexual harassment, and general workplace toxicity.
Aussie boffins get quantum gates running on a single atom
Sydney team cracks GKP code using harmonic motion in a trapped ion
Quantum researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have emerged from their smoke filled labs having built a working entangling logic gate using just one atom and a fiendishly complicated error-correcting code known as the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) scheme.
Wall Street Journal hackette finally notices Apple’s AI is rubbish
Nguyen realises the Pixel 10 actually works
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grip on reality is slipping, and not even its favourite tame journos are buying the hype anymore. Nicole Nguyen [pictured] at the Wall Street Journal appears to have broken ranks after playing with Google’s Pixel 10.
Qualcomm slaps satellite on new smartwatch chip
Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt
Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.
MSI drops Godlike X870E monster with Zen-boosted max mobos
Limited-edition board hits 7.3 Ghz while rest of lineup promises 15 per cent Ryzen uplift
MSI has wheeled out its full range of AM5 “X870E MAX” motherboards, topped off with a limited-edition monster that comes with gold trim and a stuffed dragon [no really? ed].
Valve's Fremont console leak reveals serious AMD firepower
Six Zen 4 cores and Radeon 7600 GPU hint at proper pc-class gaming box
Valve might finally be getting serious about console-grade gaming, if a freshly leaked Geekbench listing is anything to go by.
AMD leaks FSR 4 source code
SDK update locks features behind DLLS
AMD had a bit of a senior moment this week when it accidentally dumped the FSR 4 source code on GitHub before yanking it offline when it realised they’d left the safe open.
Google’s Pixel 10 gets serious about AI
New chips, flashy zoom and generative tricks in shiny recycled wrappers
The search giant has unwrapped its 10th generation Pixel phones, and it looks like someone finally got serious about AI on a handset.
China turns off Nvidia over loudmouth US trade chief
Beijing tells tech giants to dump AI chip after US boasts spark fury
The Middle Kingdom is quietly telling its top tech outfits to give up on buying the H20, a neutered AI chip from Nvidia, after a senior US official’s remarks left Beijing fuming.