China's AI giants scramble for chip self-sufficiency
Published in AI


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
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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
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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
Published in Mobiles


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.

HP clobbered as tariffs bite into profits
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Diversified supply chain fails to dodge Trump’s trade war

The maker of very expensive printer ink HP saw its shares tumble by as much as 15 per cent in extended trading after its second-quarter numbers took a kicking from Donald Trump’s tariff train wreck.