US consumers paying for Big Tech’s bargain power bills
Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward
State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.
US strong-arms TSMC to save Intel
Trump demands 49 per cent stake in Intel as price for tariff relief
The Trump administration is trying to force Taiwanese chip giant TSMC to buy nearly half of Troubled Chipzilla to secure a break on trade tariffs.
Nvidia slams idea of backdoors in AI chips
Kill switches would be a gift to hackers, not national security
Nvidia has come out swinging against the idea of embedding backdoors or kill switches in its AI hardware, calling the notion dangerous and unworkable.
Nvidia's H20 chips hit red tape gridlock in US-China shuffle
Licensing logjam stalls AI GPU shipments despite lifted ban
Nvidia might have dodged a US ban on its H20 AI chips for China, but it’s entangled in a licensing quagmire so deep it’s putting the brakes on exports.
TSMC to bring chip packaging tech to US
Taiwanese outfit bets big on CoWoS, SoIC, and CoW fab in Arizona
TSMC is plotting another big move in its American push, this time with plans to manufacture some of its most advanced chip packaging tech in the US to loosen its dependency on Taiwan.
TSMC’s US fab push still miles behind demand
"Regulation and red tape" hold back Arizona chip plans
TSMC’s multi-billion-dollar push into the US chip industry is nowhere near satisfying domestic demand, despite years of investment and political support.
Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws
Cloud Act clashes with Europe’s fantasy of digital sovereignty
Software King of the World, Microsoft has admitted it cannot keep French citizen data safe from the reach of US authorities, even when it is locked up in EU data centres.
Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US
2025 really is the year of Linux on the desktop
For the first time ever, Linux has clawed its way past the five per cent desktop market share barrier in the United States so maybe 2025 is finally the much predicted year of Linux on the desktop.
Trump’s UAE chip deal stalls over China threat
National security fears threaten Nvidia’s billion-dollar AI bonanza
A deal to ship billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI chips to the United Arab Emirates is stuck in the mud as Trump administration officials squabble over national security risks.
TSMC throws cash at US plants while Japan is left waiting
Chipmaker races Trump tariffs as Samsung’s fab stands idle
While Samsung’s much-hyped Texas fab is still sitting around looking pretty, struggling to find buyers, TSMC is bulldozing ahead with its American chip-building binge.