TSMC smashes profit record again on AI chip frenzy
Monster demand for GPUs and HPC silicon
Taiwan’s semiconductor darling TSMC has once again bathed in the glow of the AI gold rush, reporting a massive 39.1 per cent jump in third-quarter profit and setting a fresh all-time record.
TSMC 2nm price hike might push Qualcomm and Mediatek to Samsung
Intel off the table for now
Chipmaking behemoth TSMC has decided that its next shiny thing, the 2-nanometre wafer, will cost about 50 per cent more than the current 3-nanometre kit, and its biggest customers are not amused.
Apple’s cosies up to China again despite promises to Trump
Cook promises more cash for Beijing while pretending to love American manufacturing
Apple's CEO Tim Cook has once again pledged to pump more money into China, promising Beijing’s industry minister Li Lecheng that Job’s Mob will keep investing in the Middle Kingdom.
Apple dumps chargers from European MacBook Pro boxes
Charges fanboys for EU environmental policy
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has decided that Europeans don’t deserve a charger with their shiny new 14-inch MacBook Pro sporting the M5 chip and will have to pay extra.
Blackrock’s splashes $20 billion on data centre outfit
Larry Fink’s latest bet shows AI mania still has plenty of cash to burn
Investment outfit BlackRock is throwing serious money at the plumbing behind artificial intelligence.
Advania claims it will build sovereign AI clouds
Goldman Sachs-backed firm bets on local data
Nordic IT services outfit Advania, which is part of Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ portfolio, has decided to splash out on building multi-tenant sovereign AI clouds in every one of its seven markets.
Blighty workers still think hackers only target the big fish
Cohesity Research shows small firms remain sitting ducks
A third of UK workers reckon hackers only go after big corporations and that small businesses are beneath their notice.
Intel unveils Crescent Island AI GPU
Ditches HBM for LPDDR5X in cost-cutter data centre gamble
Troubled Chipzilla has wheeled out a new AI inference GPU for data centres, codenamed Crescent Island, in a bid to claw back some relevance in a market where it has experienced an abattoir of hope.
Apple about to lose grip over TSMC
Fruity cargo cult’s chip clout under threat
The fruity cargo cult Apple may be about to lose its long-held grip over TSMC as Nvidia muscles in with a deluge of orders for high-performance computing parts and AI kit.
Software engineering standards have plummeted
Engineer slams normalised bloat and forgotten basics
Engineer Denis Stetskov has called time on what he sees as an era of software rot, pointing out that the fruity cargo cult Apple managed to ship a calculator app that leaks 32GB of RAM and no one gave a toss.