Intel factory explosion wipes out $600 million
Intel shares plunged as much as 23 per cent in after-hours trading on 29 October…
Google loses $500 billion as AI spending frightens investors
Google’s parent, Alphabet, saw its share price collapse to its largest-ever decline after disappointing advertising…
GPU prices go berserk with 35 per cent surge in three months
Graphics card prices have surged 35 per cent in just three months, leaving PC gamers facing another expensive round of hardware inflation. According to VideoCardz, GPU prices increased an average…
Microsoft borrows $25 billion to feed AI spending monster
Software King of the World, Microsoft has launched a $25 billion bond offering to help…
Silicon Motion does well as SSD controller demand rockets
Storage controller specialist Silicon Motion has reported a 131 per cent surge in quarterly revenue…
GPU prices go berserk with 35 per cent surge in three months
Graphics card prices have surged 35 per cent in just three months, leaving PC gamers…
AI boom triggers PCB shortage as prices explode
The AI industry’s insatiable appetite for hardware has triggered a global printed circuit board shortage,…
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News
Microsoft borrows $25 billion to feed AI spending monster
Software King of the World, Microsoft has launched a $25 billion bond offering to help finance its enormous AI infrastructure spending, attracting an extraordinary $115 billion in investor orders. Vole’s…
Silicon Motion does well as SSD controller demand rockets
Storage controller specialist Silicon Motion has reported a 131 per cent surge in quarterly revenue…
GPU prices go berserk with 35 per cent surge in three months
Graphics card prices have surged 35 per cent in just three months, leaving PC gamers…
Graphics
Asus gives Radeon an Onimusha costume
Asus has announced an Onimusha-themed Radeon RX 9070 XT, combining its TUF Gaming hardware with…
Super Flower adds an alarm for melting GPU misery
Super Flower has launched a GPU power-monitoring dongle, giving owners another accessory to buy while…
GPU prices go berserk with 35 per cent surge in three months
Graphics card prices have surged 35 per cent in just three months, leaving PC gamers facing another expensive round of hardware inflation. According to VideoCardz, GPU prices increased an average…
Mobiles
Apple influencer blames customers for faulty iPhone Duo
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s latest foldable phone disaster has taken an entertaining turn, with one of its biggest cheerleaders suggesting customers are deliberately breaking their expensive toys. For…
Apple’s folding iPhone is a cracked lemon
After years of faffing around with a late-arriving product, Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo has…
Memory crunch sends phone makers to the scrapheap
Some Chinese phone makers are reportedly turning to memory chips recovered from discarded handsets as…
PC Hardware
AI boom triggers PCB shortage as prices explode
The AI industry’s insatiable appetite for hardware has triggered a global printed circuit board shortage,…
Memory giants spend billions but shortage could last until 2030
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are throwing billions at semiconductor manufacturing, but the global memory…
Silicon Motion does well as SSD controller demand rockets
Storage controller specialist Silicon Motion has reported a 131 per cent surge in quarterly revenue as enterprise SSD demand and AI infrastructure spending fuel extraordinary growth. The Taiwanese chipmaker generated…
AI
Google loses $500 billion as AI spending frightens investors
Google’s parent, Alphabet, saw its share price collapse to its largest-ever decline after disappointing advertising revenue and soaring AI spending spooked investors. According to Reuters, shares plunged more than 12…
More cuts at Microsoft
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees as it squeezes costs while funding…
OpenAI swallows Orchestra Bio
OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio to expand its pharmaceutical software business, adding drug development management…
Gaming
Rockstar’s GTA nearly cooked after 13 year wait
Rockstar’s long road to GTA VI involved competing projects, an uncertain early direction and a…
US lawmaker wants publishers to stop killing purchased games
US Representative Ritchie Torres plans legislation that would force publishers to respect game ownership and…
Next Xbox could cost $1,800
The software king of the world, Microsoft’s next Xbox could cost as much as $1,800, apparently bringing premium gaming and financial distress into the same living room. According to Ars…
Automotive
Uber plans to unleash Chinese robotaxis on London
Uber has teamed up with Chinese autonomous-vehicle outfit Pony.ai to bring robotaxis to London, with road testing set to begin within weeks. According to TechCrunch. the companies intend to put…
RAMageddon increases car prices
RAMageddon is threatening to shove car prices higher as AI outfits gobble up the memory…
BMW enshittifies its cars with adverts
The maker of expensive cars for twats and travelling salesmen, BMW, has enshittified its motors…
Data center
Samsung makes $80 billion profit
Samsung Electronics reported another strong quarter, with operating profit reaching about $80.5 billion as the…
Microsoft makes $92 billion but cannot build AI infrastructure fast enough
Software King of the World, Microsoft has reported quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, but its…
STMicroelectronics looking at satellites and data centres
Franco-Italian semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics has reported a sharp improvement in quarterly profits as demand from AI data centres and satellite communications helps revive its business. The company announced third-quarter revenue…
Smart devices
Apple’s OLED iPad mini gets a maxi price
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has unveiled an OLED iPad mini with an A20 Pro processor and a $200 increase in its starting price. According to Neowin, the smallest tablet…
TomTom navigates another 200 staff towards the exit
TomTom is recalculating and cutting approximately 200 jobs worldwide as it reorganises its operations and…
Amazon makes smart speaker a little dumber
Amazon has decided that some of its older Echo smart speakers have been far too…
Network
LattePanda squeezes a server onto a single board
LattePanda has launched a compact Intel-powered single-board server with dual 10GbE networking, up to 64GB…
Canada plots internet route around America
Norwegian infrastructure outfit Bulk is seeking a Canadian partner to build a $620 million transatlantic…
Chinese boffins push fibre to 3.2 petabits per second
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having demonstrated optical fibre transmission at 3.2 petabits per second, setting a claimed world record for real-time bidirectional data transfer. According to…