Microsoft stuffs Windows 11 with AI
Windows 11 getting more AI tools than you can poke a stick at
The Software King of the World, Microsoft is flooding Windows 11 with new AI tools but only Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips can run them, with Intel and AMD hardware coming later.
Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell is a 96GB beast
B-series card coming for the H100’s memory crown
Nvidia has chucked naming convention out the window and launched the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell family at GTC 2025, ditching the B40 branding you’d expect from a successor to the A40, L40, and L40S.
Apple admits AI reboot running late
Tim Cook reckons the “personal Siri” only half-baked
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped “Apple Intelligence” revamp of Siri is struggling to remember its lines, with company boss Tim Cook telling the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street that it is still nowhere near ready for showtime.
Intel adds AI and mass-market twists to 18A node
Chipzilla’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan leans into realism
Troubled Chipzilla is stretching its long-promised 18A process into two new variants aimed at feeding the AI beast and mainstream punters.
AI chip clampdown throttling Nvidia’s global sales
US diffusion rules target even friendly nations
New US export rules are about to hammer Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chip business far beyond China.
Nvidia rushes B300 AI chip production forward
New GPU plugs gaps left by banned H20 chips
Nvidia is pushing production of its new B300 AI chip forward to May, using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s latest 5nm (N4P) process and CoWoS-L advanced packaging technology.
Huawei plots Nvidia AI replacement with Ascend chip
China’s tech champion aims to fill gaps left by US sanctions
Huawei is preparing to test its latest AI chip, the Ascend 910D, hoping it can challenge higher-end products from Nvidia as US restrictions batter the Chinese semiconductor industry.
TSMC unveils 9.5-reticle CoWoS packaging
Chip packaging just got absurdly massive
TSMC is pimping up its CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) tech so that can cram an obscene amount of silicon into a single unit.
Chipzilla still stuck in tar pit
Meteor Lake flops, Raptor Lake surges
Troubled Chipzilla's quarterly results show its flashy AI PC chips like Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake aren’t selling, and there's not enough factory space to supply the older models that customers want.
Wall Street's AI debt bubble inflates on Nvidia's silicon
Industry is built on loaning cash to buy Nvidia chips
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street have lobbed more than $11 billion at “neocloud” outfits like CoreWeave, Crusoe and Lambda Labs, betting that a warehouse full of Nvidia chips is as good as gold.