More layoffs, fab delays and yet another AI pivot

Intel is hacking away at its workforce and torching grandiose European fab plans in Germany and Poland in a last-ditch effort to look relevant.

Stoned AI delivers hallucinations and headaches

The Trump administration is flogging artificial intelligence as the silver bullet for Washington’s health bureaucracy, but it is turning out to be more trouble than it is worth.

Epyc chips fuel AMD’s stunning datacenter comeback

AMD has pulled off a massive comeback in the server CPU market, snatching half the pie from Intel in just a few quarters.

AMD and Nvida forced to swallow higher prices

Getting cutting-edge chips out of TSMC’s US fabs is proving far pricier than sticking with its tried-and-tested Taiwan plants, but big tech doesn’t have much choice right now.

Kicks off HBM4 supply

SK hynix is cranking up the memory arms race, confirming it’s building 24 Gb GDDR7 modules to give next-gen GPUs fatter VRAM buffers while lining up HBM4 for AI and HPC workloads.

Starve ransomware gangs of easy cash

The UK government plans to stop public sector bodies and critical infrastructure operators from paying off ransomware crooks, even if it means enduring painful outages.

New feature will throttle games to cut energy use

Sony is fiddling with a new Power Saver mode for the PlayStation 5, promising lower power consumption at the cost of reduced performance.

Oculus and Anduril founder reckons some Yanks will pay extra

The bloke behind Oculus and the defence-tech darling Anduril, Palmer Luckey wants to take on laptops. But not your usual “assembled in the States with bits from Shenzhen” nonsense. He’s wants to build a Made in USA machine that ticks the Federal Trade Commission’s uncompromising box.

Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet

OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.

Three 8-pins, three slots, and three years too late

Sometimes cancelled products often reveal more than those that launch. A leaked Radeon RX 7000-series cooler, unknowingly bought on a Chinese marketplace, has dwarfed an RX 7900 XTX when compared.