Intel and AMD jack up CPU prices
Blame AI
Reports from China suggest that Troubled Chipzilla and AMD have hiked CPU prices across multiple product lines this month, catching retailers and distributors flat-footed.
Qualcomm brews Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 on 2nm
New CPU layout and juiced-up performance
Qualcomm’s next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, is shaping up to be a proper kitchen-sink job. Fresh leaks suggest it will use TSMC’s swanky 2nm N2P process and feature an all-new CPU cluster design.
Apple secretly borrows Google’s brain for Siri’s next act
Forced to rely on Gemini because its own AI can barely tie its shoes
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has quietly admitted what everyone in tech already suspected, that Siri’s still as thick as mince, and only Google can save it.
AMD U-turns on RDNA driver fiasco
Red faces in Radeon land after driver chaos and user revolt
After a torrent of angry users, botched uploads and contradictory statements, AMD has published a full web page promising to keep supporting its older Radeon graphics cards after all.
Microsoft throws $9.7 billion at crypto miners for AI muscle
IREN deal gives Redmond a mountain of Nvidia GPUs
Software King of the World, Microsoft has decided that the best way to stay on top of the AI arms race is to buy its way there.