Musk’s xAI accused of spewing filth over Memphis
Colossus supercomputer sparks pollution row
Elon Musk’s AI outfit, xAI, has managed to become one of Memphis’ biggest air polluters kicking off a storm among residents already battling industrial filth.
Gigabyte RTX 50 GPUs ooze thermal gel
Buyers feeling sticky
Gigabyte’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are leaking more than heat, as users report thermal gel dribbling out of heatsinks.
Strong CPU and datacentre wins
AMD has just posted the strongest first quarter in its history, pulling in $7.438 billion in revenue for Q1 2025. That’s a 36 per cent surge year-on-year, driven by robust sales of high-margin Ryzen client CPUs, booming datacentre demand for its EPYC server chips, and growing adoption of its Instinct MI300-series AI accelerators.
Chipzilla returning to greatness with 18A node
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback
Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.
Linux finally kills off the 486
Torvalds flushes ancient x86 silicon down the kernel loo
The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery, ending decades of backward compatibility that even Microsoft ditched with Windows XP back in 2001.