Qualcomm shrinks its AR chip
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
IBM boasts quantum masterplan
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.
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.