Open-sauce driver breathes new life into 20-year-old GPUs

While Microsoft long ago lobbed support for ATI’s ancient R300-series GPUs into the skip, Linux developers are still quietly keeping the lights on for hardware that predates most influencers.

Core Ultra 5 235HX punches above its weight in early benchmarks

While Intel's desktop Arrow Lake CPUs turned out to be all mouth and no trousers, its mobile Arrow Lake-HX line appears to be the opposite, turning in surprisingly strong results where it counts.

Big Tech to pay more as Taiwan foundry feels the squeeze

TSMC is about to squeeze more cash out of its clients by jacking up prices on its swankiest silicon. The Taiwanese foundry giant is planning a five to ten per cent hike on advanced nodes like 5nm, 4nm, 3nm and 2nm, to prop up its declining profit margins.

Bill Gates and Nvidia back Commonwealth’s plan to bottle a star

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has hoovered up another $863 million in fresh capital to fuel its dream of turning nuclear fusion into a commercial energy business that doesn’t melt the budget.

China’s silicon brigade tries to fill the GPU hole with homebrew parts

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has wheeled out a shiny new AI chip, hoping to plug the silicon hole left after Nvidia was kicked in the export rules by Uncle Sam.

Waiver yanked, fabs stalled, shares tanked

Washington has slammed the door shut on a loophole that let South Korea’s biggest chipmakers sneak US gear into their Chinese fabs without the usual bureaucratic hoops.

Asia dominates global rankings for AI dependency

Singapore’s workforce is the most AI-addicted in the world, with nearly three-quarters of its workers hooked on digital thinking machines to get anything done.

Two potentially dead and alive cats

IBM and AMD say they’re going to “build the future of computing” by welding quantum hardware to high-performance silicon, creating hybrid systems to crack problems too gnarly for either approach.

Korean giant eyes redemption with second-gen GAA node

Samsung’s messy 3nm debut may soon be old news as attention shifts to its 2nm GAA roadmap.

New firmware locks voltages to calm CPU crematorium

ASRock has pushed a fresh BIOS update for its 800-series motherboards, claiming better CPU and memory stability after its boards developed a nasty habit of roasting AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 processors.