Samsung can’t get the right wood

When Samsung showed off its microLED tellies as a rival to the over hyped OLED TVs the pundits applauded.

Large caches make it too sexy for Milan, Tokyo and Japan

Software King of the World has spilt the beans on Milan-X benchmarks to show the performance uplift that 3D V-Cache brings to the table.

Meta for

AMD said its EPYC chips were selected by the social media giant Meta (formerly known as Facebook) to help power its data centres at its virtual Accelerated Data Centre Premiere event.

War on whistleblowers

With companies facing increased pressure to stop doing evil from their own employees, it must be nice to know that the Software King of the World is on their side.

Ironically TSMC is going to be the winner

Japan will create a scheme to subsidise construction of domestic chip factories with a new plant planned by Taiwan's TSMC likely to be the first recipient.

Not much point when you can’t buy chips for it

Huawei has sold its x86 server unit to a state-owned Chinese firm.

DRM software breaks Valhalla

Intel has posted a release that the hybrid CPU core architecture on Alder Lake can be incompatible with certain games, specifically some protected by the anti-piracy DRM software from Denuvo.

Must be fixed by Apple

While some companies have been making their products more accessible and useful for users, the fruity cargo cult Apple has been working out ways to make its products impossible to fix.

Worst I have ever seen

Arm CEO Simon Segars told the assembled throngs at the Web Summit in Lisbon that the chip-supply crisis was the worst he'd ever seen.

What are you writing Dave?

Microsoft is introducing what it calls a "set of natively integrated AI experiences" across Microsoft 365.