
Former Intel board members call for Chipzilla to go private
US government and big tech should carve up struggling giant
Troubled Chipzilla should be taken private, stripped apart, and rebuilt into a proper foundry and design house, according to four long-serving former directors writing in Fortune.

PC gaming hardware surges to $44.5 billion in 2025
Record 35 per cent growth as Microsoft forces mass upgrades
The PC gaming hardware market will balloon by 35 per cent in 2025, hitting $44.5 billion in sales, according to number crunchers at Jon Peddie Research.

Austrian army routs Microsoft Office
Like the Battle of Austerlitz only with penguins
Austria’s armed forces have dumped Microsoft Office in favour of LibreOffice, and the move has nothing to do with saving cash.

AI doctors hate women and minorities
Bias baked into medical models
Artificial intelligence tools touted as the saviours of overstretched hospitals could end up doing the opposite for women and ethnic minorities, according to new research.

Microsoft forks out $30 billion on UK
Trump’s visit coincides with Nvidia, Google and others throwing cash at Britain
Software King of the World, Microsoft has promised to dump $30 billion (€28 billion) into the UK by 2028 as it tries to beef up its artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Microsoft ducks EU fine with Teams carve-out
Brussels swallows concessions after years of grumbling
Microsoft has dodged a hefty EU fine by coughing up concessions on how it bundles its software, ending a four-year antitrust row.

Microsoft and OpenAI patch things up for profit push
Tentative deal clears a path for OpenAI’s restructuring
Software King of the World, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have agreed to extend their partnership in a move that could smooth the startup’s shift to a for-profit structure.

Oracle trying to be the new Nvidia
Ellison bets the farm on AI
Oracle stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.

Microsoft plays with light to kill off GPUs
Optical computer could crunch AI 100 times faster
A team of Volish boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a prototype analogue optical computer they claim could blow GPUs out of the water.

Gartner claims all IT will involve AI by 2030
Analyst outfit says OpenAI not fit for enterprise
Number crunchers at Gartner have declared that by 2030, every IT department task will be touched by AI in some form, though the firm is adamant this will not trigger mass job losses.