Zuckerberg’s FTC dodge flops
Meta boss tried a bargain-bin fix for a $30 billion problem.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to evade an antitrust lawsuit with a lowball settlement offer has hit a brick wall.
China ditches silicon in transistor leap
New 2D material could trash Chipzilla’s best with faster, leaner chips
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a transistor that could outgun current US chip tech while guzzling less power.
2018 Intel holdout and ageing smartphone is now vintage
The fruity cargo cult Apple has pushed two more products onto its growing list of near-dead gear with the iPhone 6s and the 2018 Mac mini, both now stamped as “vintage.”
Nvidia blindsided by $5.5bn hit
Chipmaker stumbles as trade war with China tightens its grip
Chipmaker Nvidia has been slapped with a $5.5 billion (€5.2 billion) financial gut punch after the US government demanded export licences for its H20 AI chip sales to China and Hong Kong.
Zen 6 ‘Medusa’ brings memory shake-up to Ryzen
AMD’s new CPU architecture could flip DIMM slot rules on their head
The Chinese dark satanic rumour mills have manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s upcoming Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs—codenamed “Medusa”—will throw a spanner in the works for memory layouts, thanks to changes inside the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC).