Samsung to dump titanium for aluminium on Galaxy S26 Ultra
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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.

Samsung fires up 2nm Exynos 2600 for Galaxy S26
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Yields creep up to 50 per cent 

Samsung has finally pulled the trigger on mass production of the Exynos 2600, its first 2nm GAA SoC built on the SF2 process.

Qualcomm sticks with TSMC’s 2nm N2P for next two Snapdragon Elites
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Chipzilla rival braces for soaring wafer prices

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was its last flagship built on the 3nm process. Now the San Diego mob is tipped to move to TSMC’s shiny new 2nm node, but not the bog-standard N2 flavour.

Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
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Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits

Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.

Apple’s iPhone factory still a labour horror show
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Foxconn accused of dodgy contracts, wage delays and discrimination

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again facing awkward questions about the way its prized iPhones are churned out in China by its besties Foxconn.