Pegatron boss shrugs off rare earth control fuss
Tong Zixian says tighter rules won’t hit Pegatron directly
Pegatron Chairman Tong Zixian insisted that the rare earth control's imposed by China would not directly affect his company.
AMD’s Soundwave Arm chips leak
Heading to handhelds
It looks like AMD’s having another go at Arm CPUs, this time with a range codenamed “Soundwave” and aimed squarely at the handheld and low-power gaming market.
Gelsinger warns Intel’s big equity wins mean bugger all
Flashy deals don't fill fabs
Troubled Chipzilla’s ex-boss, Pat [kicking] Gelsinger, has waded in on the firm’s latest equity-focused bromances with the US government and Nvidia, warning that none of it matters if they don’t result in chips getting made in Intel fabs.
Another RX 9070 XT fries its 16-pin cable
Sapphire joins ASRock in the GPU roasting league
Just when we thought the RX 9070 XT was immune to the melted connector circus, another premium board has gone full toaster. This time, it's Sapphire's Nitro+ edition that's joined ASRock’s Taichi OC in the "crispy connector" club.
Intel and AMD toast joint anniversary of advisory club
Acronyms everywhere
Troubled Chipzilla and AMD announced the one-year anniversary of their x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group which they claim is making the x86 architecture more compatible, predictable and less of a dog's breakfast
Pixnapping revives a 12-year-old browser trick to steal Android pixels
Nasty and it still works
Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data‑stealing browser attack and adapted it to Android so a malicious app can read pixels from other apps or websites.
Nanya says DDR4 shortage is helping it rake it in
Memory factory finds profit in what others abandoned
The general manager of Nanya Technology, Li Peiying, reckons there’s still life in the old DDR4 market, especially now that the big players have moved on and left a gap wide enough to drive a lorry through.
TP-Link tests Wi-Fi 8 and gets it to go
Connectivity cultists get early sniff of next-gen wireless
A working Wi-Fi 8 prototype has managed to send data without falling over, which is more than many early wireless efforts can claim.
China pulls the rug under US chip industry
Rare earth clampdown could pull the plug on America’s AI supply chain
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are twitching nervously as China’s new rare earth export restrictions threaten to upend the global chip industry and potentially block firms like TSMC from selling semiconductors to American companies.
Google’s Tensor G5 leaves Pixel punters hot and bothered
Hot and Throttling
Google’s shiny new Tensor G5 chip has failed to live up to its own hype. Tech enthusiasts say the chip throttles faster than a cheap gaming laptop, and the blame lies with Google’s piecemeal design philosophy.