Samsung clings to Snapdragon for Galaxy S26
Qualcomm expects 75 per cent chip share despite Exynos revival
Samsung might be dusting off its Exynos project for the Galaxy S26 series, but even the Koreans seem to know where the real firepower lies.
Musk’s AI anime waifu trained on staff’s biometric data
xAI workers roped into building explicit avatars for Musk’s lonely fanboys
If you think your job sucks, imagine working for a supporter of right wing causes that compels you to give up your own biometric data to power his anime sexbot.
DRAM surges past price of gold baas
Memory doubles
The price of DRAM has gone full rocket fuel, rising 171.8 per cent year-on-year as AI-fuelled server demand turns the memory market into a warzone.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee says AI could tear the web’s ad economy apart
Inventor of the internet warns LLMs will stop people reading pages
The man who built the World Wide Web says generative AI is about to shove a crowbar into the internet’s multibillion-dollar advertising racket.
Nvidia boss says China is racing ahead in AI
Huang warns West is stuck in pessimism
US tech giant Nvidia’s supreme dalek Jensen Huang reckons China is pulling ahead in the artificial intelligence race while the Land of the Free is stuck spinning its wheels in regulatory sludge.
Qualcomm weathers tax hit but keeps punters happy
Mobile chip giant posts gains, sees AI as golden goose
Chipmaker Qualcomm managed to please the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street despite coughing up a net loss of $3.12 billion, thanks to an income tax sting that took a chunk out of what would have been a solid quarter.
AMD can ship Instinct MI308 AI chips to China
Meanwhile Nvidia’s H20 is stuck in export limbo
AMD has received export approval for its Instinct MI308 AI chips, a move that gives it a narrow but meaningful advantage over Nvidia in the tightly restricted Chinese AI hardware market.
AMD bets big on Zen 6 and MI400 as profits soar
Rides AI boom to record $9.2 billion quarter
AMD has just posted record-breaking results, with third-quarter revenue hitting $9.2 billion, up 36 per cent from the previous year and 20 per cent higher than last quarter.
World’s tallest chip breaks Moore’s Law’s last taboo
Scientists stack 41 semiconductor layers
A team of international boffins has emerged from its smoke filled labs claiming that they have kicked Moore's Law in the nadgers and created the world's tallest chip.
AMD hit by patent troll over 3d v-cache tech
Adeia dusts off patents to chase a payout on Ryzen X3D chips
Chipmaker AMD has found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Adeia, a company that doesn’t make anything but claims to own the technology behind the firm’s 3D V-Cache hybrid bonding used in Ryzen X3D processors.