Says Low-NA is still pulling its weight

TSMC appears to be in no rush to adopt ASML’s pricey High-NA EUV machines, despite rivals like Troubled Chipzilla already scribbling them into future roadmaps.

Intel, Micron, Qualcomm say tarrifs could blow up their supply chains

Troubled Chipzilla has joined forces with Micron and Qualcomm to tell the Trump administration to pack in the semiconductor tariff sabre-rattling.

Prototype microchannel cooler targets 1,000W heat 

Troubled Chipzilla is playing with water again, this time showing off an in-package liquid cooler at its Foundry Direct Connect shindig. Rather than slapping a chunky block on top of an IHS, this design squirts coolant directly over the silicon, using copper microchannels to hit only the bits that get seriously toasty.

 Cooked up by insider and dodgy supplier

Troubled Chipzilla has found itself embroiled in a financial scandal in Israel after a former employee and a crooked component supplier allegedly siphoned off more than NIS 3 million, or about €776,000, in a long-running scam that went unnoticed for more than a year.

Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors

Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks. 

Zen 5 monster aims straight at Chipzilla's Xeons

AMD took to Computex to unveil its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, and it's going for the throat. The show's star is the Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a hulking 96-core, 192-thread silicon slab aimed squarely at the workstation elite.

Chipzilla slaps two GPUs on one card, hopes someone notices

Troubled Chipzilla and board partner Maxsun showed off a curious slab of silicon at Computex 2025, unveiling the Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU 48GB card.

PC and data centre units safe as networking group faces chop

Troubled Chipzilla is planning to offload its network and edge (NEX) division, sources as CEO Lip-Bu Tan sharpens the knife and gets ready to slice off anything that doesn’t fit his “back to basics” mantra.

Dual Arc Pro B60 GPUs

While the earlier rumor about a dual Battlemage GPU sounded somewhat stretched, it appears that it won't be an official version from Intel, but it will certainly come to the market, in the form of Maxsun Arc Pro B60 Dual Turbo.

Confirms 2026 release date

During the Computex 2025 show, which officially kicked off today, Intel has showcased its Panther Lake-based systems and confirmed that these will be launching in 2026, most likely as the Core Ultra 300 series.