Apple kills off FireWire in macOS Tahoe beta
Legacy gear dumped as Job's Mob ignores its own past
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has axed support for FireWire 400 and 800 in the first macOS Tahoe developer beta, leaving old iPods and legacy drives to rot in drawers.
Radiation-tolerant chips for budget rocket jockeys
Infineon has lifted the kimono on a batch of memory chips designed to handle the mild radiation of low Earth orbit without the usual military price tag.
Marvell scores billions in AI chip deal
Two new hyperscalers signed up as demand surges for custom silicon
Chip designer Marvell reckons it has landed two new hyperscale cloud clients and is sniffing around more than 50 other deals as demand for its customised AI silicon keeps growing.
AMD FSR 4 on RDNA 3 is a half-baked miracle
Upscaling better, but frame rate takes a kicking
A Reddit user has forced AMD’s shiny new FSR 4 to run on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, despite the chipmaker insisting the tech is only for its RDNA 4 GPUs.
Intel shows off flashy graphics at SIGGRAPH
Flaunts trillion-triangle jungle demo and AI denoiser on ARC B580
Intel took to SIGGRAPH and HPG 2025 to shout about the graphical wonders its latest GPUs can now pull off.