Samsung spooked by US tariff threats
Sales hit in mobiles, AI and memory chips
Samsung Electronics reckons looming US tariffs could sink demand for its smartphones and memory chips, with the South Korean giant sounding the alarm during its latest earnings call.
Fujitsu Lands £125 million Contract
Despite promise to pause government bids
Fujitsu has secured a £125 million contract from the Northern Ireland Department of Finance, despite previously pledging to halt bidding for new UK government work following the Post Office Horizon scandal.
TSMC chickens out of high-NA EUV for A14
Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs
TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.
Radeon RX 9070 GRE launching 8 May
JD.com leak confirms launch date and pricing
So much for the rumours. AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB is now officially launching on 8 May, despite earlier mutterings about a delayed Q4 window.
Chipzilla’s Panther Lake cores and CPUID confirmed
Intel’s Cougar Cove and Darkmont blueprints
An perfmon update has outed Troubled Chipzilla’s upcoming Panther Lake CPUs, revealing core architecture codenames and CPUIDs
Qualcomm fast-tracks Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 to ambush Apple
5GHz mobile spoiler alert
The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 looks set to gatecrash the iPhone 17’s launch with a reveal as early as September.
Amazon ditches Android for its Linux-based Vega OS
Retail giant wants to go it alone in the tech world
Amazon is taking a huge swing at the tech world by dumping Android and rolling out its own Linux-based Vega OS. The retail giant reckons it can reshape how millions use Fire TV devices and other hardware.
Nvidia plans RTX 5080 Super to catch up with RTX 4090
24GB GDDR7 rumour
Nvidia is ready to pad out its RTX 5000 desktop lineup with the RTX 5060 and possibly the much-whispered RTX 5050. However, the dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that there might another big card lurking in Nvidia’s Blackwell roadmap.
TSMC 2nm process defect rates lower than expected
New GAA chip tech impresses
TSMC claims its upcoming N2 manufacturing node is ahead of schedule on defect reduction, even though it is the company’s first attempt at gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistor technology.
Apple iPad diverts an aircraft
Because it is just so well made
A Lufthansa Airbus A380 flying from Los Angeles to Munich had to make an unscheduled landing in Boston after a passenger jammed their precious Apple iPad into a business class seat, setting off alarm bells about lithium-ion fires at cruising altitude.
