Capitalism is failing

US President Donald Trump is so keen on nationalisation he is thinking of moving the entire semiconductor industry under some form of state control.

Chips Act shake-up

The Trump administration has confirmed it is going to take a 10 per cent slice of Troubled Chipzilla.

Ramps up in-house CPU plans

Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.

Intel gets $2 billion lifeline while slashing its own investments

SoftBank is chucking US$2 billion at Troubled Chipzilla in what looks like an effort to revive its sagging foundry business and rekindle interest in its battle with the mighty TSMC.

But numbers don’t add up

Chip-making giant TSMC has been bragging about a mountain of taxpayer cash supposedly rolling in from four countries, but the numbers look a bit suspect.

Record 41 per cent share

Chipzilla’s life just got a lot more miserable after AMD walked off with a record 41 per cent of server revenue in the second quarter of 2025, according to number crunchers from Mercury Research.

Socialism sneaks in the back door

Troubled Chipzilla might soon be partly owned by Uncle Sam if President Donald Trump gets his way.

Intel’s restructuring leaves key open-source work without a home

Troubled Chipzilla’s decision to sack around 24,000 workers has not only left its product lines short-staffed, it has gutted some of the essential work keeping Linux support alive for Intel hardware.

Panic buying boosts shipments 

Thanks to tariff jitters in the second quarter, CPU shipments jumped 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter, with Client CPU sales leaping from nearly 62 million units in the first quarter to just over 67 million.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gets a warmer than expected reception from the White House

It looks like President Trump is no longer gunning for troubled Chipzilla chief executive Lip-Bu Tan’s head.