AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
Flaming expensive
More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards.
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 set to muscle in without Oryon
A premium chip minus the flagship price tag
Qualcomm appears ready to give its Snapdragon 8 series a fresh kick with the upcoming Gen 4 version, designed for consumers who want flagship performance without paying flagship prices.
AMD cosies up to Rapt AI to claw into Nvidia’s turf
Improving inferencing performance and GPU chaos with workload wizardry
Underdog chipmaker AMD is teaming up with Rapt AI in a strategic move to boost performance on its Instinct GPU lineup and tackle the AI infrastructure headaches that have plagued would-be innovators.
Vole gives BSOD a makeover
Paint it black
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, has plans to make the infamous Blue Screen of Death crash message in Windows 11 less blue and a bit more bleak.
France slaps Job’s Mob with €150m fine for privacy power play
Watchdog says App Tracking Transparency wasn’t as innocent as it looked
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped App Tracking Transparency feature has earned it a €150 million slap on the wrist from France’s antitrust bloodhounds, who say it used privacy as a smokescreen to stiff the competition.
Micron jacks up the prices
Chipmaker banks on AI boom
Memory vendor Micron has confirmed what punters feared—memory is getting dearer, and it’s not stopping anytime soon.
China masks up in Taiwan chip heist scandal.
Beijing’s talent-thieving ops exposed by Taiwanese spooks
China has been playing dress-up in Taiwan’s tech scene, creating fake firms to lure semiconductor experts into helping bolster Beijing’s chip ambitions—without anyone knowing they were working for the mainland.
Chipzilla’s new boss admits it’s all a bit of a mess
Tan promises custom chips, cuts, and contrition at Intel Vision debut
Troubled Chipzilla’s newly appointed CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, took the stage in Las Vegas and confessed to a crowd of unimpressed attendees that the chipmaker had lost its way.
Torvalds fumes over "code turds" in Intel graphics code in Linux 6.15
Hdrtest backlash as DRM update hits kernel
IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has blasted Troubled Chipzilla’s “hdrtest” feature.
Microsoft turns 50
Early insiders reflect on the messy genius behind Vole
The Software King of the World has officially hit the big five-oh, and the Seattle Times kicked off its retrospective with a perfect line: “Microsoft built things. It broke things.”