OpenAI overtakes Musk’s SpaceX in valuation game
AI outfit now the priciest start-up on the planet
Chatgpt maker OpenAI has stitched up a deal that values the artificial intelligence outfit at $500 billion, putting it ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the most expensive start-up in the world.
China boots out Euro telecom kit
Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside
China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure.
TSMC hikes wafer prices and kills cheap transistors
Age of bargain silicon ends
The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.
AMD teases DGF tricks for next-gen UDNA GPUs
Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation
AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.
Samsung to dump titanium for aluminium on Galaxy S26 Ultra
Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals.