Qualcomm shrinks its AR chip
Published in IoT


Standalone smart glasses

Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1, an updated chip for smart glasses that reduces bulk and introduces AI that runs entirely on the specs themselves, eliminating the need for a phone or cloud connection.

Samsung bets big on Exynos 2600 to prove 2nm isn’t fantasy
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Chip to power Galaxy S26, if it survives yield roulette

Samsung is throwing everything behind its Exynos 2600, a mobile chip meant to both revive its self-made application processor line and prove its foundry isn’t bluffing with the 2nm node hype.

Apple’s “Liquid Glass” sparks backlash
Published in Mobiles


It was supposed to distract from Apple's AI woes but has only made it worse. 

Apple Fanboys are furious that their fruity cargo cult’s leaders thought that turning to Windows Vista for inspiration would somehow distract them from the fact that the company can’t get its AI to go.

Nvidia boss promises AI renaissance for Europe
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Huang reckons continent’s GPU drought is nearly over

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has assured Europe that its embarrassing lack of AI computing grunt will be sorted soon, as the region scrambles to catch up with the US and China’s AI supremacy.

Meta to splash $15bn on Scale AI stake
Published in AI


Zuckerberg goes headhunting to close AI gap

Meta is reportedly throwing $15 billion at Scale AI for a 49 per cent stake, desperately trying to headhunt is way up the AI pecking order after being left in the dust by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

SASE market climbs
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Buyers tire of juggling vendors

Bean counters at Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that the secure access service edge (SASE) market jumped 17 per cent year-over-year to $2.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025.

Micron beats SK hynix to HBM4 sampling
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Micron claims pole position in high-bandwidth memory race

 US memory outfit, Micron claims to have leapfrogged SK hynix in the HBM race by slipping samples of its 12-layer 36GB HBM4 to key clients.

Nvidia's RTX 5060 is a 50-class pretender with a 60-class price
Published in Graphics


Shrinkflation hits hard as PC gamers pay more for less

Nvidia is flogging off what should be an RTX 5050 under the grander name of RTX 5060 and hoping no one notices. But the data is out, and it’s damning, according to analysis by TechSpot.

IBM boasts quantum masterplan
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Biggish Blue bets big on fault-tolerant qubits

Biggish Blue has swaggered into the quantum saloon waving a roadmap it says will make AI look like a warm-up act.

Panicking over AI failures, Apple declares it impossible
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If we can't get it to go it does not exist

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has thrown its toys out of the pram again, in the form of a gloomy research paper declaring that artificial general intelligence might just be a dead end. That is, of course, after finding itself embarrassingly behind rivals who have functioning first generation AI.