AMD's silicon surge
Tensorwave says AMD does better than Nvidia and cheaper
TensorWave, a burgeoning bit barn enterprise, has recently installed systems powered by AMD's Instinct MI300X, which it intends to lease at a cost significantly lower than that of accessing Nvidia accelerators.
New law slams deep fake creators with unlimited fines
Deepfake Debauchery
Creating a sexually explicit "deepfake" image is set to become an offence under new legislation announced by the UK Ministry of Justice.
Apple aims to be the Forrest Gump of AI
Disconnected and lacking intelligence
Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is boasting that the AI in iOS 18 will not need to connect to the cloud without thinking about what that means.
TSMC US deals might harm Taiwan’s security
The country worried that supply chains could be duplicated
There are significant concerns within the Taiwanese government that accepting US funds to establish chip plants in the US might counter the country's security and economic interests.
EU investigates Broadcom over VMware licencing
Watchdog barks
US chipmaker Broadcom is facing scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators over changes to the licensing conditions of its newly acquired cloud computing firm VMware, following grievances from several EU business users and trade associations.
Nvidia wasted $9 billion on Blackwell
Keller claims he could have done it for a billion
Tenstorrent's CEO, Jim Keller, claims that Nvidia wasted $9 billion developing the Blackwell GPU
AMD's Zen 5 chips set to sizzle
MSI drops firmware news
The dark satanic rumour mill is in overdrive about AMD's new Zen 5 desktop processors claiming that they are so close you can hear the silicon sizzle.
Intel’s Foundry plans are not impressing Wall Street
Taking too long
Even though tech stocks are doing well thanks to accelerated computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) systems built atop that infrastructure and elevated interest among governments worldwide in "re-shoring" chip manufacturing onto their soil, Intel is doing poorly.
Sales plummet
Apple, the fruity cargo cult, has been dethroned as the world's largest mobile phone seller following a sharp drop in sales. This allows South Korean rival Samsung to reclaim the global market share lead.
Ubisoft pulls the plug on 'The Crew'
Gamer outrage as users don't get what they paid for
Ubisoft has just given gamers a stark reminder that they are renting access to our libraries and pulled the plug on the online-only racing game 'The Crew'.