Salesforce boss brags about binning 4,000 staff for AI
Marc Benioff calls mass layoffs “exciting” as job cuts accelerate
The CEO of Salesforce has been telling everyone+dog how artificial intelligence has helped him give 4,000 workers the boot and he’s rather chuffed with himself.
Linux devs keep ancient Radeon cards kicking
Open-sauce driver breathes new life into 20-year-old GPUs
While Microsoft long ago lobbed support for ATI’s ancient R300-series GPUs into the skip, Linux developers are still quietly keeping the lights on for hardware that predates most influencers.
Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX mobile chips look good
Core Ultra 5 235HX punches above its weight in early benchmarks
While Intel's desktop Arrow Lake CPUs turned out to be all mouth and no trousers, its mobile Arrow Lake-HX line appears to be the opposite, turning in surprisingly strong results where it counts.
TSMC hikes chip prices as margins wobble
Big Tech to pay more as Taiwan foundry feels the squeeze
TSMC is about to squeeze more cash out of its clients by jacking up prices on its swankiest silicon. The Taiwanese foundry giant is planning a five to ten per cent hike on advanced nodes like 5nm, 4nm, 3nm and 2nm, to prop up its declining profit margins.
Bill Gates and Nvidia back Commonwealth’s plan to bottle a star
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has hoovered up another $863 million in fresh capital to fuel its dream of turning nuclear fusion into a commercial energy business that doesn’t melt the budget.