Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 set to muscle in without Oryon
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A premium chip minus the flagship price tag

Qualcomm appears ready to give its Snapdragon 8 series a fresh kick with the upcoming Gen 4 version, designed for consumers who want flagship performance without paying flagship prices.

AMD cosies up to Rapt AI to claw into Nvidia’s turf
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Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry

Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.

Vole gives BSOD a makeover
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Paint it black

The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has plans to make the infamous Blue Screen of Death crash message in Windows 11 less blue and a bit more bleak.

France slaps Job’s Mob with €150m fine for privacy power play
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Watchdog says App Tracking Transparency wasn’t as innocent as it looked

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped App Tracking Transparency feature has earned it a €150 million slap on the wrist from France’s antitrust bloodhounds, who say it used privacy as a smokescreen to stiff the competition.

Micron jacks up the prices
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Chipmaker banks on AI boom 

Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.