Samsung fires up 2nm Exynos 2600 for Galaxy S26
Yields creep up to 50 per cent
Samsung has finally pulled the trigger on mass production of the Exynos 2600, its first 2nm GAA SoC built on the SF2 process.
High noon at Intel as Panther Lake release nears
Pins its hopes on 18A process
Intel's upcoming Panther Lake mobile CPUs are set to debut in late 2025, with high-volume production in early 2026, and they’ll be the first proper outing for the company’s much talked-about18A node.
Musk empire losing talent
Executives flee as xAI chaos and politics drive departures
Elon Musk is burning through top lieutenants at a pace that makes even the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street look stable.
EA goes private for $55 billion
Trump’s son-in-law helps steer publisher into private hands
Electronic Arts has decided the best time to cash in and go private is while everyone is excited about Battlefield.
YouTube gives $24.5 million to Trump
Final Big Tech holdout forks over cash after Capitol riot ban
YouTube has become the last of the Big Tech giants to pay off Donald Trump after booting him off the platform following the Capitol riot.
Nvidia and AMD crank up AI chip war
Both sides rejigging their offerings
Nvidia and AMD are frantically revising their next-gen AI designs in an effort to out-muscle each other, with power budgets and memory bandwidth figures spiralling upwards.
Qualcomm sticks with TSMC’s 2nm N2P for next two Snapdragon Elites
Chipzilla rival braces for soaring wafer prices
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was its last flagship built on the 3nm process. Now the San Diego mob is tipped to move to TSMC’s shiny new 2nm node, but not the bog-standard N2 flavour.
Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits
Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.
Berners-Lee says the web has gone off the rails
Inventor pushes for user-owned data and a CERN-style AI project
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee reckons the internet is in a mess, hijacked by social media platforms that turned people into products rather than customers.
Trump demands Microsoft fires top staffer
Lisa Monaco accused of being a security risk
US president Donald Trump is demanding that the Software King of the World, Microsoft fire its new global affairs boss Lisa Monaco, claiming she is a threat to national security.