Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p
AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.
Redmond accused of censoring internal dissent over Israeli military contracts
Software King of the World, Microsoft has started to censor internal emails mentioning “genocide,” “Gaza,” “Palestine,” or anti-Israel activism.
Touchscreen cosplay meets overkill performance at Computex
MSI’s Computex 2025 stand wasn’t short on spectacle, but one of its gaudier displays was the MEG Vision X AI, a prebuilt gaming PC with a 13-inch front-facing touchscreen pretending to be an “AI Human Machine Interface.”
iPhones made outside US could get slapped with a massive tax
President Donald Trump is kicking off another round of his trade war antics, and this time the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is in the firing line. On 23 May 2025, Trump warned Apple boss Tim Cook that unless iPhones are made in the US, they’ll be hit with a 25 per cent tariff.
Nvidia cooks up China-friendly B40 GPU
Blackwell-based B40 set to dodge export bans with cheaper silicon
Following yet another US clampdown on AI hardware, Nvidia is scrambling to keep its Chinese revenue stream alive with a watered-down Blackwell GPU called the B40.