Samsung’s tri-fold finally leaves Apple looking flat
A new bendy toy lands while Jobs' Mob faffs about
Samsung has lobbed a proper curveball at the smartphone world with a gizmo that folds twice, while the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple still struggles to make even one bend without pulling something.
Apple may tap Intel's 18AP tech for cheap silicon
Job’s Mob looks at Chipzilla’s fabs for low-end Macs and iPads
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple might let Troubled Chipzilla cook up some of its future M-series chips, which would be a curious twist in their long and occasionally frosty relationship.
DRAM prices spark family bust-up inside Samsung
Memory bosses squeeze Mobile Experience as Galaxy S26 costs loom
Samsung’s booming DRAM prices have sparked a row within its own divisions, as the semiconductor arm decides it prefers cash to family loyalty.
Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh leaks point to a modest core bump
Entry-level chiplet parts try to look exciting for 2027
Troubled Chipzilla’s bargain bin Wildcat Lake chips have not even landed yet, and already the usual leakers say a refresh is brewing.
What if we had a year of Linux on the desktop and no one realised?
Fanboys insist we are getting the numbers wrong
For years, Linux fanboys have been insisting that this year will be the time of Linux on the desktop. Now, ZDnet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks the take-up of Linux is much higher than numbers suggest.
OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts
Ads creep into the bot that was meant to stay clean
OpenAI looks poised to repeat the same clangers that turned Amazon and YouTube into rolling billboards by shoving ads into ChatGPT.
Wall Street worried about Oracle debt
Credit traders see a messy year looming
Oracle’s debt started flashing warning lights in November as its risk gauge climbed to a three-year high, Bloomberg reported, prompting traders to mutter that something unpleasant is brewing.
Chinese firms get their Nvidia fix in Southeast Asia
AI chip is full of holes
Chinese tech behemoths are hauling their prized AI models overseas to gorge on Nvidia’s finest chips while pretending everything is above board.
Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at
Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.
Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
A 96 per cent power cut in flash.
Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.