Nvidia’s Rubin chips hit the fabs
Published in News
Thursday, 28 August 2025 10:29

Nvidia’s Rubin chips hit the fabs


More coming

Nvidia has confirmed that its next-generation Rubin AI chips are already in the fabs and ready to hit volume production in the second half of 2026.

AI PCs inch forward despite market gridlock
Published in AI
Thursday, 28 August 2025 10:11

AI PCs inch forward despite market gridlock


Vendors flog silicon dreams while punters wait for prices to drop

Despite some economic potholes and user indifference, so-called AI PCs are crawling their way into the market, with analysts predicting 143 million units will ship next year.

Japan powers up its first homegrown quantum computer
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Nevermind quantum cats, this one is powered by an OQTOPUS 

Japan has flicked the switch on its first quantum computer built entirely from bits designed and manufactured within the country’s borders.

Huawei wants to kill PCIe, TCP/IP and NVLink
Published in Network
Thursday, 28 August 2025 09:27

Huawei wants to kill PCIe, TCP/IP and NVLink


Chinese giant pitches UB-Mesh as a single unifying protocol

Huawei has rolled out a grand plan to scrap half the data centre’s plumbing and replace it with its shiny new UB-Mesh protocol.

Tesla tanks in Europe
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 28 August 2025 09:19

Tesla tanks in Europe


Europeans have had enough of Musk

Tesla has hit another bump in the road in Europe, clocking up its seventh straight month of shrinking car sales while Chinese upstart BYD floored it.

Nvidia’s profits sparkle but China chip freeze spooks traders
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AI darling’s data centre growth slows as H20 blacklisting bites

Nvidia has blown past earnings expectations again, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.

Morgan Stanley reckons Nvidia’s GB200 racks mint money
Published in Network


Rivals left bleeding red ink in AI factory economics

Number crunchers at Morgan Stanley have been adding up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that Nvidia’s monster GB200 NVL72 racks are the only kit worth buying if you want to turn an AI factory into a cash cow.

AMD tipped to bump Radeon RX 9070 GRE up to 16GB
Published in Graphics


Chipmaker wants fatter memory bus

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that AMD is planning to beef up its Radeon RX 9070 GRE with more memory after punters grumbled about the 12GB launch earlier this year.

Cue pushes Apple to splash cash on AI startups
Published in AI
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 09:53

Cue pushes Apple to splash cash on AI startups


Cook still doesn’t fancy doing anything bold or expensive

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s services overlord Eddy Cue is apparently desperate to blow some cash on big-name AI firms, though his past ideas, like snapping up Netflix and Tesla, were promptly exterminated by supreme dalek Tim Cook.

German court slaps Apple over ‘carbon neutral’ Watch
Published in IoT


Eucalyptus offsets and marketing waffle don’t cut it in Berlin

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been told to stop flogging its Watches as "carbon neutral" in Germany after a court decided the claim was a load of old cobblers.