Troubled Chipzilla hit by €776,000 fraud
Cooked up by insider and dodgy supplier
Troubled Chipzilla has found itself embroiled in a financial scandal in Israel after a former employee and a crooked component supplier allegedly siphoned off more than NIS 3 million, or about €776,000, in a long-running scam that went unnoticed for more than a year.
Tactile buttons and retro cool bite Job’s Mob where it hurts
The TCL Flip 4 5G is proof that touchscreens didn’t cure cancer, no matter how much Job’s Mob tried to convince the world otherwise. The so-called revolution of endless swipes and all-glass phones has started to wobble, and in strolls the humble flip phone with a smug little click.
Nvidia RTX 5090 prototype guzzles 2,400W
Leaked card sample is more power station than GPU
An engineering prototype of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has surfaced. This early design, posted by Twitter/X user @yuuki\_ans, sports four 16-pin power connectors and looks like something a Bond villain would use to light up a volcano lair.
Official bans look tough, but processors turn up via backdoors
Despite the US waving its sanctions stick over Russia since the Ukraine invasion, chips are streaming into the country through a maze of unofficial networks.
Azor reckons most of you are playing esports at 1080p
AMD’s gaming architect and Alienware co-founder Frank Azor [pictured] has poked the hornets’ nest by claiming most gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM on their graphics cards.