Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside 

China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure.

Age of bargain silicon ends

The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.

Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation

AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.

Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals.

Compact modules promise speed, efficiency, and up to 64 GB capacity

Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and support for capacities as high as 64 GB.

Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.

We are not surrendering more than half of output

Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production.

Hard to see who we want to win here

Elon Musk is taking a swing at Wackypedia, claiming he can do it better with his own AI effort called Grokipedia.

Granite Rapids-WS brings 86 cores and 4.8GHz boost to workstation fight

Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz.

Chiplet design and DDR5 support to take on EPYC

Zhaoxin has unleashed its KH-50000 server CPUs, and the company is pitching them as a serious step up for China’s domestic server market.