Apple’s iPhone factory still a labour horror show
Foxconn accused of dodgy contracts, wage delays and discrimination
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again facing awkward questions about the way its prized iPhones are churned out in China by its besties Foxconn.
EA close to $50bn buyout deal
Sharks circle the games giant
Electronic Arts could be yanked off the stock market in a $50 billion deal that would make it one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history.
Intel to hike Raptor Lake prices as AI PCs stall
Older Intel CPUs could see more than 10 per cent rises
Gamers still buying Raptor Lake might be in for a nasty surprise, with Troubled Chipzilla reportedly set to lift prices on its 13th-gen parts by more than 10 per cent.
YMTC eyes DRAM and homegrown HBM
State-backed NAND maker looks to ease the memory crunch
China’s NAND champ YMTC is barging into DRAM to build its own high-bandwidth memory and unclog a shortage throttling domestic AI rollouts.
Intel waves Arrow Lake charts at gamers
Latest slides take aim at Ryzen 9000
Troubled Chipzilla has lined up its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs against AMD’s Ryzen 9000 and declared game on, complete with bar charts and brave talk.
Microsoft cuts Israeli defence ministry’s Azure taps
Block follows Guardian spy revelations and months of staff unrest
Software King of the World, Microsoft has pulled some Azure and AI services from a unit inside Israel’s defence ministry after an internal review backed media reports about mass surveillance of Palestinians.
Brussels probes SAP’s on-prem support tactics
Watchdogs fear unfair after-market squeeze could sting customers
The European Commission is investigating SAP, the maker of expensive management software, which no one can be really sure what it does. Watchdogs are interested in how the outfit flogs maintenance and support for on-premises software.
AI-designed chips save power claims TSMC
Tenfold efficiency claim
TSMC said that AI-driven design tools have lifted its AI chip energy efficiency by about ten times.
TSMC rumoured to be buying into Intel
Nvidia’s cash and Washington’s chequebook shift the mood
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC is about to shove cash towards its rival Intel.
AMD gets PyTorch working on Windows
Radeon 9000, 7000 and Ryzen AI kit now less useless
AMD has delivered on its Computex 2025 promise to make PyTorch work on Windows for consumer GPUs and APUs.