Napster’s magical mystery investor vanishes
Shareholders told that the long-promised billions may never arrive
Napster stunned its faithful when an online shareholder meeting on 20 November revealed that the massive investor it had been boasting about since January was unlikely to deliver the cash.
Nokia bets big in US
Invests billions away from Finland
Former rubber boot maker Nokia is chucking billions into the US as it tries to make its networking gear look clever enough for the AI circus.
AMD sets a date for elusive FSR Redstone
The long-teased graphics tech is meant to land on 10 December
The next-gen FidelityFX update FSR Redstone will start rolling out from 10 December.
Intel's Arrow Lake prices fall off a cliff
Black Friday exposes just how badly the new CPUs are struggling
Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra 200 series has seen its prices nearly halved since launch, a sign of how little love the Arrow Lake chips are getting. Amazon’s Black Friday sale pushed them to fresh lows, and some models now sell for barely half their original tags.
JEDEC cooks up chunky new DDR5 standard
Quad-rank CKDs promise fatter modules for next-gen desktops
JEDEC is hammering out a CQDIMM standard for DDR5 CKD memory that will let future platforms cram in far higher capacities without slowing everything to a crawl.
Intel spies a fresh payday in fancy packaging
US customers eye local options
Advanced packaging is shaping up to be a massive prospect for Troubled Chipzilla as US chip designers start sniffing around for someone nearby to wrap their shiny silicon.
IBM and Cisco chase quantum internet
Long-distance quantum links could work by 2030
Boffins working at IBM and Cisco reckon they can link quantum computers over serious distances, and they want to show it is doable before the end of 2030.
Tech company shares hammered
Wall Street still fears a bubble
The cocaine-nose jobs of Wall Street are not buying Nvidia's stellar results, and still fear that all that investment in AI is a bubble.
Trump’s AI power grab angers his base
Backlash as president demands States stop policing Big Tech
Trump has kicked a hornet’s nest with a push to stop US states from tightening the screws on artificial intelligence companies.
Samsung rattled as surveys points to Snapdragon
Exynos 2600 faces an uphill slog
Samsung is steeling itself for a rough ride as it prepares to ship the Galaxy S26 in Korea with the Exynos 2600.