Qualcomm faces £480 million lawsuit in London
Consumer group says chipmaker’s “private tax” hiked phone prices
Qualcomm is in the legal firing line again, this time facing a £480 million (€560 million) London lawsuit accusing it of abusing its market power to squeeze more money from the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Samsung.
No quick way back for Intel
ARM boss says slow EUV adoption and mobile missteps handed TSMC the crown
ARM chief executive Rene Haas has delivered a stinging assessment of Intel’s attempts to compete with TSMC, claiming the chipmaker squandered vital opportunities and is facing a near-impossible climb back to the top.
Shuffled naming and confusing GPU specs
A new leak has revealed more details about Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake lineup, suggesting that the company is preparing a tangled mix of Core Ultra “X” and non-X variants with inconsistent GPU configurations and unclear naming.
Nvidia uses radical cooling trick for Rubin Ultra AI chips
Ditches traditional liquid cooling
Nvidia is preparing a major rethink of how it cools its next-generation Rubin Ultra AI chips, reportedly moving to a new microchannel cover plate system to stop its silicon beasts from overheating.
AI killing the internet
Users ditch clickbait for instant answers
A new study by Loopex Digital shows that major websites are haemorrhaging visitors as users increasingly turn to AI chat tools instead of clicking through to traditional pages.