
Intel’s Arc B580 budget GPU has a big old problem
Performs well on new chips, tanks on older ones
The Arc B580 might be Chipzilla’s best foot forward in the GPU value game, with Tom’s Hardware calling it the $249 champ, but budget gamers hoping to slot it into their ageing rigs might be in for a nasty surprise.

Chipzilla eyes GDDR7 for future Arc GPUs
Intel’s desktop GPU comeback might finally be serious
Just when it looked like Chipzilla was having a snooze in the graphics race a job posting has revealed it is installing GDDR7 memory for its upcoming Arc GPUs.

Fudan smashes flash memory speed record with PoX
New non-volatile tech writes a bit in 400 picoseconds
A team of boffins at Fudan University have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a semiconductor storage device that writes a single bit in just 400 picoseconds — about 25 billion operations per second.

US is speeding up China's chip dominance
Locking out China might just hand the AI future to Huawei
Analysts are worried that the US restrictions on exporting chips to China are fueling the country's rapid development of advanced chips.

DeepSeek is an open saucy freight train
Asay says it’s Linux all over again
MongoDB's developer relations boss Matt Asay has come out swinging in InfoWorld with an opinion piece declaring DeepSeek had escaped from its national boundaries and become an Open Sauce juggernaut.