IC design industry sees weak peak season
Tariff timing and fading subsidies blamed for flat demand
The IC design industry is enduring a dull peak season, with even the usual pre-holiday stocking for China’s October break and Double 11 sales coming in weaker than expected.
Nvidia kicks off “cold revolution 3.0”
Suppliers told to cough up pricier heat dissipation gear
Nvidia is demanding its suppliers develop new microchannel water cooling plate (MLCP) technology, with unit prices running three to five times higher than existing solutions.
UK’s AI ‘hit squad’ can’t hire enough staff
Government unit underspends half its budget chasing scarce talent
A UK government artificial intelligence unit that was supposed to save £45 billion across the civil service managed to burn through less than half its budget last year.
Lenovo shows off bizarre rotatable laptop and smart stand
Concept kit appears at Innovation World 2025
Lenovo has wheeled out some truly oddball kit, including a laptop with a spinning screen and a smart stand that stalks its user.
Intel digs up Comet Lake corpse and calls it Core i5-110
Chipzilla wants $200 for reheated 14nm leftovers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided that if it cannot impress punters with bleeding-edge innovation, it might as well re-sell the same old tat with a shinier sticker. It has released the Core i5-110, a Comet Lake processor that first saw daylight in 2020 and is inexplicably back from the dead.