Taiwan giant turns to local partners as packaging crunch bites

TSMC is stuffed to the rafters with CoWoS orders, and the AI industry is sweating over it, although the company seems to have a cunning plan.

Big Tech outfit turns its custom silicon into a serious threat

Google’s custom silicon is giving Nvidia a proper fright as the search outfit’s tensor processing units help its Gemini 3 models overtake OpenAI’s latest efforts.

A growing pack of rivals eyes the crown

One company has sat on the AI chip throne for a decade, but the ground beneath Nvidia is starting to shift.

Oh, you only wanted a cache wipe. Sorry about that

Google’s Antigravity IDE has managed to chalk up a new high score in carnage after a developer found the tool had blitzed their entire D drive without so much as a by-your-leave.

Arvind Krishna tears into Big Tech’s data centre maths

IBM lead suit Arvind Krishna has warned that hyperscalers like Google and Amazon are shovelling cash into data centres at a rate that will never turn a profit.

Cupertino insists it is above everyone else’s regulations.

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is refusing to play ball with New Delhi’s latest phone mandate, behaving as if the country's rules do not apply to its holy hardware.

Listing chatter grows while investors puff up valuations.

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Anthropic has started sketching one of the largest stock market debuts ever.

Ricursive Intelligence aims to shake up Silicon process.

Money is pouring into a tiny Palo Alto house where two former Google boffins believe they can bulldoze the old chip-design rulebook.

Google’s Ironwood finally gives Nvidia a real worry

Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 has rattled the AI hardware world by emerging as the first ASIC able to trouble Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and spark scrutiny.

Google tests a more intelligent hotspot mode

Android has long made setting up a mobile hotspot easy, although the default settings leave you crawling along when the hardware can do far better.