
Section 899 sparks panic as foreign cash eyes the exit
US tech giants could be staring down the barrel of another self-inflicted wound courtesy of a barely noticed clause in Donald Trump’s new budget bill.

US curbs push Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu towards Huawei's Ascend
China’s top tech outfits are scrambling to replace their dwindling supply of Nvidia chips with homegrown alternatives as US export controls tighten the screws on AI hardware, the Financial Times reports.

Social media giants still flouting GDPR
Fines fly but kid's data keeps getting mishandled
Seven years into GDPR, half of the world’s biggest social media platforms are still being slapped with fines like they never read the memo.

Infineon pushes GaN into space
DLA's top space grade for homebrew transistors
Infineon has rolled out its first in-house radiation-hardened gallium nitride transistor, flogging it as ideal for deep space, defence, Slough, and other hellish environments.

Qualcomm rubs Apple’s nose in modem flop
Study shows Jobs' Mob's C1 chip loses the 5G race in crowded cities
Qualcomm is taking a well-aimed swipe at one of its biggest ex-customers, revealing that its modem chips trounced the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s homemade alternative in a real-world 5G smackdown.