Devs suggest lowering settings and disabling upscaling to avoid intro crash

Hell just froze for Nvidia RTX 50 and 40 series owners trying to play the demo of Hell Is Us. The game crashes before the cinematic even finishes, leaving players staring at their high-end hardware in disbelief.

Cortical Labs ships synthetic brains to scientists with a taste for real-time wetware

An Aussie startup has stuck 800,000 lab-grown human neurons on a chip and called it a computer. Cortical Labs says its CL1 is the world’s first code-deployable biological machine, and it’s up for grabs at $35,000 a pop.

All roads lead to TSMC

The head of TSMC reckons it doesn’t really matter whether GPUs or ASICs win the AI chip race. Either way, the orders are heading back to his outfit.

Node4 report suggests hybrid is the new black

Nearly all mid-market companies are eyeing a cloud exit, according to fresh research from Node4, with 97 per cent planning to shift some workloads off the public cloud in the next year.

1-gamma LPDDR5X claims big AI gains with better battery life

Micron has started shipping samples of its 1-gamma node-based LPDDR5X memory, which it claims is the world’s fastest and thinnest low-power DRAM designed for flagship smartphones.

Steam gamers show more love for Nvidia’s cheaper cards

Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti has only been rattling around for six weeks but has already overtaken AMD’s shiny new RX 9070 series, at least according to Valve’s latest Steam hardware survey.

Internal Intel document hints at Nova Lake, Panther Lake and Bartlett Lake

Troubled Chipzilla appears to have spilled the beans on several upcoming products, though it’s making sure no one takes the roadmap as gospel.

US fab nears full capacity, 2nm yields soar, and chip prices may spike

Nvidia’s next wave of AI chips is heading for mass production at TSMC’s Arizona plant before the end of the year, according to fresh reports from Taiwan.

TSMC downplays tariff threat, touts AI boom and record profits

TSMC says it is on course for record revenue and earnings this year, with AI demand roaring ahead and tariffs posing little direct threat.

Chinese tech firms face chip design disruption under new export rules

Chinese tech companies designing advanced chips in Taiwan are facing fresh barriers as the US tightens restrictions on critical software tools used in chip design.