Chipmaker stumbles as trade war with China tightens its grip

Chipmaker Nvidia has been slapped with a $5.5 billion (€5.2 billion) financial gut punch after the US government demanded export licences for its H20 AI chip sales to China and Hong Kong.

AMD’s new CPU architecture could flip DIMM slot rules on their head 

The Chinese dark satanic rumour mills have manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s upcoming Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs—codenamed “Medusa”—will throw a spanner in the works for memory layouts, thanks to changes inside the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC).

Fastest deal in NATO history lands Maven on European frontlines 

NATO has rushed through a deal with Palantir to strap its Maven Smart System to the Alliance’s battlefield operations, sealing the contract in just six months.

S24 owners locked out, rollout yanked globally

Samsung’s long-awaited One UI 7 rollout has been halted after a nasty bug prevented Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones.

Blackwell factories to take root in Arizona and Texas

Nvidia is yanking its AI chip and supercomputer production back to the US, planning to churn out its Blackwell architecture entirely within American borders for the first time.

Begins looking at your emails

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is pivoting toward customer data to sharpen its AI, a quiet admission that its current approach is not working.

Prices likely to spike, analysts warn

Tech manufacturing lines are buckling, which could mean prices are set to rise, analysts have warned.

Garage sale as Intel bleeds from old bets

Troubled Chipzilla is flogging 51 per cent of its Altera programmable chip arm to buyout outift Silver Lake for $4.46 billion, marking new Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan’s first big move since taking over in December.

Dimensity 9400+ falters under gaming heat

Latest benchmarks have shown that MediaTek’s top chip, Dimensity 9400+, looks strong on paper, but Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite dominates where it counts.

Frontier supercomputer flexes Instinct MI250X muscle

AMD ran a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using its Instinct MI250X accelerators and EPYC processors on the Frontier supercomputer, slicing runtimes from nearly 40 hours to just 90 minutes -- more than 25 times faster.