Meta and Google orders slip away

Something strange is stirring at Taiwanese IC design house MediaTek. The company’s push into special application chips (ASICs) after 2026 is suddenly looking a lot shakier.

Generative AI shoved into Echos, Fire TVs and doorbells

Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ across a pile of its hardware, effectively welding generative AI into daily life whether people want it or not.

AI outfit now the priciest start-up on the planet

Chatgpt maker OpenAI has stitched up a deal that values the artificial intelligence outfit at $500 billion, putting it ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the most expensive start-up in the world.

Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside 

China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure.

Age of bargain silicon ends

The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.

Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation

AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.

Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals.

Compact modules promise speed, efficiency, and up to 64 GB capacity

Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and support for capacities as high as 64 GB.

Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.

We are not surrendering more than half of output

Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production.