Qualcomm spurns Apple as modem deal nears expiry
We are just so over this relationship
After more than 15 years of flogging modem chips to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple, Qualcomm seems to be limbering up for life without its biggest drama prone customer.
AMD snaps up Brium to loosen Nvidia’s AI iron grip
Chipmaker adds stealthy startup to its growing anti-Nvidia arsenal
AMD has snapped up a little-known AI startup called Brium in a move that looks suspiciously like an attempt to smash Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI software ecosystem.
Intel bolting Xe3 and Xe4 onto Nova Lake-S chips
Celestial and Druid working together
Troubled Chipzilla appears to be hedging its bets with its upcoming Nova Lake-S processors, mixing two separate GPU architectures into one silicon soup.
Morgan Stanley uses AI to modernise ancient code
And they said it could not be done
While most of Big Tech is still fumbling with AI tools that choke on COBOL, beancounters Morgan Stanley has quietly rolled out a GPT-based system to deal with the crusty legacy code clogging up its systems.
Beijing blocks Apple-AI rollout with Alibaba
Worried that Apple might get Chinese intelligence
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s plan to launch its flashy new artificial intelligence kit in China is going nowhere fast, thanks to regulators in Beijing dragging their feet. The snag seems to stem from an unfortunate side effect of Donald Trump’s trade war.
British MPs slam Apple and Google for blocking anti-theft fix
Job's Mob and Google accused of dragging their feet to protect profits
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Google are getting a proper earful from furious British MPs for stalling a basic anti-theft fix that could stop criminals cashing in on stolen smartphones.
Nvidia boss says Switch 2 chip is "the dog's"
Most advanced mobile GPU ever
Nvidia supremo Jensen Huang has been wagging his tongue about a custom chip for the Switch 2, calling it the most advanced bit of mobile graphics kit the outfit has ever produced.
Hell Is Us demo crashes RTX 50 and 40 cards
Devs suggest lowering settings and disabling upscaling to avoid intro crash
Hell just froze for Nvidia RTX 50 and 40 series owners trying to play the demo of Hell Is Us. The game crashes before the cinematic even finishes, leaving players staring at their high-end hardware in disbelief.
Brain in a box goes on sale for $35k
Cortical Labs ships synthetic brains to scientists with a taste for real-time wetware
An Aussie startup has stuck 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on a chip and called it a computer. Cortical Labs says its CL1 is the world’s first code-deployable biological machine, and it’s up for grabs at $35,000 a pop.
TSMC says AI chip war doesn’t matter
All roads lead to TSMC
The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.