US government stake could be a poisoned chalice

Troubled Chipzilla has admitted that the US government’s shiny new 9.9 per cent stake in the firm might be more of a liability than a lifeline.

Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

Uses Samsung's enhanced 7nm node with 2.5D stacking

IBM has wheeled out its Power11 server CPU at Hot Chips 2025, giving it higher clocks, AI acceleration, and a taste of Samsung’s iCube 2.5D packaging.

Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest

AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.

If you don't use my AI, I will sue

Elon Musk's AI outfit xAI has lobbed a lawsuit at the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and its AI darling OpenAI, accusing them of colluding to squash competition in the generative chatbot space.

Chip giant sees its robot dreams on four wheels first

Nvidia has set its sights on self-driving cars as the next major cash cow for its physical AI push, hoping to ride a wave of autonomous vehicles before humanoid robots make it out of its smoke-filled labs.

Chipmaker arms Jetson Thor with smarter motors

Infineon has teamed up with Nvidia to push physical AI deeper into humanoid robotics, stuffing smarter motor control into the chip designer's Jetson Thor developer kits.

Chipmaker talks modular MGX architecture and rack guts at Hot Chips 2025

Nvidia used Hot Chips 2025 to show how its Blackwell GB200 and GB300 systems are bolted together, highlighting its modular MGX platform and sprinkling in a bit of open compute virtue-signalling along the way.

Chipmaker claims world’s first 300-plus layer QLC flash 

SK hynix has started mass production of what it calls the world’s first 321-layer QLC NAND flash chip, a 2Tb storage device designed to push density well past anything seen before.

Google locks users into slower charging and reduced battery capacity 

Search giant Google has confirmed that its new Pixel 10 series phones will force users to accept automatic battery throttling through its Battery Health Assistance feature, which can't be disabled.