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.

Company admits chatbot guidelines let dangerous content slide

Meta’s internal AI policies gave chatbots the green light to engage in flirty chats with children, dish out bogus medical advice and help users craft racist nonsense, according to a 200 page company document seen by Reuters.

Local wafer supply to benefit TSMC, Samsung and US fabs

GlobalWafers is joining the parade of semiconductor suppliers setting up shop in the US, announcing a new silicon wafer plant in Texas to help fuel America’s push for chip independence.

Beijing chip-gear maker claims US rival swiped plasma tech via ex-staff

Top US chip-equipment maker Applied Materials is in hot water in China after being accused of stealing trade secrets from a domestic competitor.

China’s new Mini SSD is faster than MicroSD and nearly as tiny

Chinese storage maker Biwin has cooked up a new SSD that’s barely bigger than a MicroSD card but claims read speeds over 3.7GB/s.

Privacy-first firm bolts as Swiss politicians threaten anonymity

Proton is beginning to shift its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland, fearing a fresh bout of government snooping baked into the country's updated surveillance laws.

Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower

OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.

Conservative chipmaker finds gold in dwindling supply

The DRAM world’s three big players have been quietly turning off the taps on DDR4 this year and it is finally sending prices skyward.

Gamed the internet's biggest encyclopaedia for a decade

While Wackypedia editors did their best to make Fudzilla vanish, they were failing to spot someone carrying out a ten-year campaign to immortalise a nutty composer of odes to famous neo-nazis on the site.