PC makers bleed cash as AI giants hoard memory supplies
Shrinking margins force next year’s machines towards painful price hikes.
Global tech titans are gorging on DRAM and flash to feed their AI obsessions, leaving the humble PC market to scrap for leftovers as unit prices rocket.
Samsung teases its Exynos 2600 as a 2nm comeback kid
Korean giant hints it has finally heard the complaints.
Samsung has splashed out a glossy trailer to prove it really is cooking up the world’s first 2nm GAA chipset, the Exynos 2600, after months of leaks, whispers and leakers swearing blind it was the real deal.
AMD and HPE invoke ‘Helios’ to elbow into the AI rack wars
Here comes the sun
AMD has lobbed another shot at the AI infrastructure land grab by tightening its partnership with HPE to build out the next wave of open rack-scale systems, named after a Greek sun god.
AWS grabs Nvidia gear to muscle into the big AI leagues
Amazon arms its cloud with chip tech while rivals circle.
Amazon’s AWS outfit is strapping Nvidia’s prized NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 chip as it tries to lure heavyweight AI customers onto its cloud turf.
Apple kicks up dust over India’s spyware-friendly phone rule
Cupertino insists it is above everyone else’s regulations.
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is refusing to play ball with New Delhi’s latest phone mandate, behaving as if the country's rules do not apply to its holy hardware.
Anthropic eyes mega IPO
Listing chatter grows while investors puff up valuations.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Anthropic has started sketching one of the largest stock market debuts ever.
Startup duo gamble on rapid DIY chip design
Ricursive Intelligence aims to shake up Silicon process.
Money is pouring into a tiny Palo Alto house where two former Google boffins believe they can bulldoze the old chip-design rulebook.
MediaTek spins TPU gold into a sharper Dimensity 9600
Google’s Ironwood finally gives Nvidia a real worry
Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 has rattled the AI hardware world by emerging as the first ASIC able to trouble Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and spark scrutiny.
Samsung and SK hynix warn punters the DRAM drought will drag on
The memory giants say profit comes first
Samsung and SK hynix, which churn out more than 70 per cent of the world’s DRAM, have decided that the current memory boom is an opportunity to squeeze long-term profits.
Rebel nuns tell church to go forth and multiply
You can take our freedom, but not our Instagram
Three Austrian nuns in their 80s have sparked a proper ecclesiastical rumpus after breaking out of a care home, reclaiming their former convent and refusing to accept church conditions that would force them off Instagram, ban press contact and stop them getting legal advice.