Qualcomm’s next laptop chip could double down on power

Leaker Roland Quandt has spilled more details on what Qualcomm is cooking up for its next-gen laptop chip, the Snapdragon X2 Elite.

AMD's mid-tier Zen 5 chip turns up in HP workstation

The Ryzen AI Max Pro 385 has made its first benchmarking appearance, turning up in Geekbench results with a respectable 2489 single-core and 14,136 multi-core score.

Chipzilla regenerates failed architecture 

If a leaked manual is anything to go by, Troubled Chipzilla may not be ready to give up on Arrow Lake-S just yet.

Nvidia ban forces pivot to homegrown silicon

China's top tech outfits are being forced to kick their dependency on Nvidia and shift to homegrown AI chips, as US export curbs and a dwindling stockpile of H20 processors squeeze their options.

Middle Eastern megafab plans tests US national security nerves

TSMC is apparently snuffling around the United Arab Emirates as a possible spot for a new chip fab, despite the fact that it might anger the US ruler Donald Trump who insists that all fabs are belong to him.

They will do what you expect from now on

Software King of the World Microsoft is finally admitting that its USB-C ports are a shambles, with some doing charging, some doing data, some pretending to do display output, and none doing all three.

$10K workstation card outguns gaming flagships

Overclocking supremo and TechTuber Roman 'der8auer' Hartung has taken Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for a gaming spin and discovered it's a performance beast. Previously seen chewing through 3DMark tests, this $10,000 professional GPU has now been flung into the deep end with actual games, leaving traditional gaming cards in its wake.

Claims Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V runs rings around rivals

Troubled Chipzilla is trying to claw back relevance in the laptop game, and it seems like its latest Lunar Lake platform might deliver a proper AI punch. If you believe Intel's own benchmarks.

Samsung's sensor crop shows up iPhone's zoom

It took the fruity cargo cult, Apple long enough to jump from 12MP to 48MP on its iPhones, but now there’s fresh talk that it might leap again to a 200MP sensor, following a bruising camera comparison with Samsung.

It is real competition

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has finally admitted that Huawei is no longer just a nuisance in China’s AI arms race, it’s now a fully-fledged competitor.