TSMC hikes wafer prices and kills cheap transistors
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.
AMD teases DGF tricks for next-gen UDNA GPUs
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.
Samsung to dump titanium for aluminium on Galaxy S26 Ultra
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.
Crucial pushes LPCAMM2 laptop memory to 8533 MT/s
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.
Cerebras scoops $1bn to take on Nvidia
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.