IBM Power11 gets speed boost and AI smarts
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Tuesday, 26 August 2025 10:20

IBM Power11 gets speed boost and AI smarts


Uses Samsung's enhanced 7nm node with 2.5D stacking

IBM has wheeled out its Power11 server CPU at Hot Chips 2025, giving it higher clocks, AI acceleration, and a taste of Samsung’s iCube 2.5D packaging.

Infineon links up with Nvidia for physical AI robots
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Chipmaker arms Jetson Thor with smarter motors

Infineon has teamed up with Nvidia to push physical AI deeper into humanoid robotics, stuffing smarter motor control into the chip designer's Jetson Thor developer kits.

Nvidia pulls plug on China-only H20 GPU
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Friday, 22 August 2025 10:17

Nvidia pulls plug on China-only H20 GPU


Nvidia backs away as Chinese market turns sour

Nvidia appears to be winding down its H20 GPU line for China, as the economic and political winds continue to blow straight in its face.

Wall Street Journal hackette finally notices Apple’s AI is rubbish
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Nguyen realises the Pixel 10 actually works

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grip on reality is slipping, and not even its favourite tame journos are buying the hype anymore. Nicole Nguyen [pictured] at the Wall Street Journal appears to have broken ranks after playing with Google’s Pixel 10.

Google’s Pixel 10 gets serious about AI
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 21 August 2025 09:40

Google’s Pixel 10 gets serious about AI


New chips, flashy zoom and generative tricks in shiny recycled wrappers

The search giant has unwrapped its 10th generation Pixel phones, and it looks like someone finally got serious about AI on a handset.

AI stocks take a kicking
Published in AI
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 10:03

AI stocks take a kicking


Tech investors run scared after MIT says most AI projects are useless

Tech investors got spooked on Tuesday after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested most AI projects were about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push
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Tuesday, 19 August 2025 11:37

ARM poaches Amazon chip guru for AI push


Ramps up in-house CPU plans

Chip designer ARM has poached one of Amazon’s top silicon brains, Rami Sinno [pictured], to spearhead its in-house AI chip efforts, in a move that looks suspiciously like a direct shot at Chipzilla, AMD, and Nvidia's datacentre turf.

Microsoft says AI agents will kill off SaaS by 2030
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Lamanna reckons business software is already a walking corpse

Software King of the World, Microsoft has declared that traditional business software is as good as dead and is betting big that AI agents will have finished the job by 2030.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 wins over enterprise despite user backlash
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Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower

OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.

Simply NUC becomes SNUC Systems
Published in AI
Friday, 15 August 2025 17:20

Simply NUC becomes SNUC Systems


Focus on AI-powered computing platforms built for the edge

Simply NUC has announced a shift in the company's focus, becoming SNUC Systems, and focusing on delivering AI-powered computing platforms purpose-built for the edge. This also means we won't see any more Simply NUC-built systems.