B580 gets serious fixes for CPU overhead mess Chipzilla’s Arc Battlemage GPUs are slowly crawling out of the hole, with new drivers finally giving them a fighting chance in modern games. The Arc B580 ...

A sign of the apoloclyse The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming Troubled Chipzilla is apparently in early talks with arch-rival AMD to rope it in as a foundry ...

Something strange is stirring at Taiwanese IC design house MediaTek. The company’s push into special application chips (ASICs) after 2026 is suddenly looking a lot shakier. The dark satanic rumour ...

Parts shortage looming Acer chairman Chen Junsheng says the second half of the year should see stronger PC demand thanks to seasonal effects, but parts shortages and rising costs are clouding the ...

Chatgpt maker OpenAI has stitched up a deal that values the artificial intelligence outfit at $500 billion, putting it ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the most expensive start-up in the world. The ...

Generative AI shoved into Echos, Fire TVs and doorbells Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ across a pile of its hardware, effectively welding generative AI into daily life whether people want it or not. The ...

Nokia and Ericsson shoved aside  China is cutting back on the use of European telecom gear as President Xi Jinping pushes to remove western technology from the country’s critical infrastructure. Two ...

Age of bargain silicon ends The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.

Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future ...

Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to ...

Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals. After being forced back to ...

Compact modules promise speed, efficiency, and up to 64 GB capacity Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and ...