AMD tipped to bump Radeon RX 9070 GRE up to 16GB
Chipmaker wants fatter memory bus
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that AMD is planning to beef up its Radeon RX 9070 GRE with more memory after punters grumbled about the 12GB launch earlier this year.
Cue pushes Apple to splash cash on AI startups
Cook still doesn’t fancy doing anything bold or expensive
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s services overlord Eddy Cue is apparently desperate to blow some cash on big-name AI firms, though his past ideas, like snapping up Netflix and Tesla, were promptly exterminated by supreme dalek Tim Cook.
German court slaps Apple over ‘carbon neutral’ Watch
Eucalyptus offsets and marketing waffle don’t cut it in Berlin
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been told to stop flogging its Watches as "carbon neutral" in Germany after a court decided the claim was a load of old cobblers.
Canada’s tech hiring freeze worse than cold snap
ChatGPT blamed as pandemic-era boom crashes into AI reality
Canada’s once-blistering tech job market has faceplanted, with listings now 19 per cent below what they were in 2020, and analysts are pointing fingers squarely at AI.
OpenAI’s corporate restructuring could drag into 2026
Microsoft standoff stalls SoftBank billions
OpenAI’s attempts to restructure its business have hit the skids as it locks horns with the software King of the World, Microsoft, leaving billions in SoftBank cash hanging in the balance.
Cambricon cashes in on anti-Nvidia orders
Beijing's AI chip pipsqueak rakes in the yuan
Chinese chip upstart Cambricon is laughing all the way to the bank after netting a record profit on the back of Beijing's vendetta against Nvidia.
Intel warns about Trump’s partial nationalisation
US government stake could be a poisoned chalice
Troubled Chipzilla has admitted that the US government’s shiny new 9.9 per cent stake in the firm might be more of a liability than a lifeline.
Huawei working on HBM-free AI SSDs
Chinese giant eyes solid-state alternative to high-bandwidth memory
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Huawei is cooking up a new type of memory aimed at AI workloads that could ditch traditional high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
IBM Power11 gets speed boost and AI smarts
Uses Samsung's enhanced 7nm node with 2.5D stacking
IBM has wheeled out its Power11 server CPU at Hot Chips 2025, giving it higher clocks, AI acceleration, and a taste of Samsung’s iCube 2.5D packaging.
AMD blames mobo makers for AM5 socket meltdowns
Socket sizzle saga hits ASRock hardest
AMD has finally broken its silence over the smoking AM5 socket scandal, and it's pointing the finger at third-party motherboard vendors for pushing the limits.