SoftBank’s chip shuffle stirs the AI pot

SoftBank's theatrical exit by selling its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia mattered far less to the chipmaker than the chatter suggested, because the holding was tiny beside a $4.8 trillion colossus and barely shifted the dial.

Zen 5 refresh in 2026, Zen 6 in 2027, and a mysterious new GPU to bury RDNA

AMD has lifted the kimono on its next-gen client CPUs and GPUs, with new codenames straight out of Greek mythology.

Samsung’s Exynos refuses to learn the lesson

It takes a certain flair to kick off an industry trend, and MediaTek managed it when it lobbed efficiency cores out the window with its Dimensity 9300 in November 2023.

Cuts price to keep up with Nintendo’s Switch 2 juggernaut

Sony has decided to flog a cut-price version of its PlayStation 5 only in Japan, trying to spark sales at home as inflation bites and Nintendo keeps eating its lunch.

Outshines iPhone biz as server demand roars ahead

Contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has posted a 17 per cent surge in third-quarter profits, with AI servers doing the heavy lifting while iPhones took a backseat.

Son's AI obsession unnerves investors despite record profits

SoftBank Group shares nosedived 10 per cent after it dumped its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion, choosing to punt the lot on OpenAI instead.

New DRAM and NAND combo 

Memory outfit SK hynix is cooking up a fresh batch of silicon aimed at shoving more AI grunt into mobile gear and other edge kit.

ChromeOS merger suggests Google is noticing the PC market 

Chipmaker Qualcomm might have stuck its Snapdragon X series into Windows laptops, but now it's sniffing around Android too.

TinyGPU v2.0 can render 1,000 triangles at 15 frames per second

Retro computing fans are buzzing over TinyGPU v2.0, a homebrew graphics processor from FPGA tinkerer and vintage PC enthusiast Pongsagon Vichit.

Fidelity’s Huang begs for wafers as fabs hit their limits

TSMC’s latest sports day turned into something of a customer summit when Fidelity boss Huang Renxun publicly pleaded for more chip supply, declaring that “without TSMC, there would be no Fidelity.”