Samsung might trade OLED secrets for cheaper wafers
Korean giant risks IP leak in rumoured China supply tie-up
Samsung could end up handing over some of its crown jewels to China to cut costs on its next-generation chips and displays.
Arm boss says US chip bans just shrink the pie
Rene Haas warns that locking down tech hurts everyone
Arm CEO Rene Haas has taken a swipe at US chip export bans, warning that trying to stifle China’s AI development is more likely to shrink the entire tech economy than give anyone a competitive edge.
Taiwan says no to Huawei and SMIC
Silicon Island tightens the screws
Taiwan has just thrown a sizeable spanner into China’s semiconductor self-sufficiency fantasy, with the democratically elected island adding Huawei and SMIC to its strategic high-tech commodities entity list.
German state expels Microsoft
Schleswig-Holstein doesn’t want teams
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is revolting and ditching the software King of the world, Microsoft, from its public sector.
Rice boffins cook up Frankenstein's glaphene chip
Bends the rules of physics and common sense
Materials scientists at Rice University have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new type of computer chip build from a fusion of graphene and silica glass called glaphene.
Troubled Chipzilla might chop itself up
The answer to years of failure could be to admit it can't do everything
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street reckon Troubled Chipzilla might need to smash itself into pieces if it wants to claw out of its long-running tech and financial woes, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Apple’s AI paper gets push-back from other boffins
Probably because it doesn't understand what it's doing
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s research paper, pompously titled The Illusion of Thinking, which confidently claimed that large reasoning models (LRMs) collapse when asked to do anything clever, is faulty, according to a top boffin.
Qualcomm plans dual-variant Snapdragon 8 Elite 3
Built on 2 nm
Qualcomm looks set to shake up its flagship chip strategy by splitting the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 3 into two variants fabbed using TSMC’s 2 nm process.
Intel Xeon 6 gains AI traction despite rough market ride
Chip lands appearing in Nvidia systems and UK supercomputers
Troubled Chipzilla’s latest Xeon 6 processor is getting noticed for powering AI-heavy workloads in cloud, edge and high-performance computing. It is a shame that the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street are not getting the memo.
Nvidia doubles down on GDDR6 and 8 GB limits for RTX 5050
Blackwell entry-level GPU skimps on bandwidth
Nvidia’s latest budget card, the GeForce RTX 5050, is shaping up as another exercise in doing just enough.