
AMD will not go bust this year
Waiting for Zen might be cunning
Last year, Kerrisdale Capital Investment warned that AMD would go bankrupt by 2020 and with Zen not appearing until the end of this year we were slightly concerned that the outfit did not have enough to survive what will be a dismal year.

Nvidia gives up on GTX 970MX and 980MX GPUs for notebooks
Waiting for Pascal
It has been rumoured for a while that Nvidia was working on new GTX 970MX and 980MX GPUs for notebooks and now a new rumour has come out claiming this is rubbish.

Jobs Mob denies Android swap rumour
Apparently it was worth denying
The Apple Press office works in the same way as the British Royal Family’s. Its official line on most things is “no comment.” But this week it took the rare position of denying a rumour.

Intel gives Xiaomi a special deal
Atom in every tablet
Chipzilla is giving Xiaomi a free processor to install in its tablets as part of its sales push.

Samsung planning 5 million Galaxy S7 smartphones
Two different flavours
Samsung Electronics the world's top smartphone maker, plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones.

Topsy deal was part of Apple’s secret Google war
Former Topsy boss has a theory
Apple has finally pulled the plug on an outfit it spent $200 million on two years ago, and the former director of that company, Topsy, Aaron Hayes-Roth has a theory about how Jobs’ Mob got value for money on the deal.

Microsoft gets PCs and phone udates lined up
More updates coming
Software giant Microsoft has finally managed to link its PC windows with Mobile and now both will be updated at the same time.

Moscow Russian to connect dead to wi-fi
Every body gets it
Authorities in Tsar Putin’s Moscow have been busy tackling the grave problem of coverage black-spots by sticking wi-fi in the city’s cemeteries.

Mozilla admits Firefox smartphone failed
Gives up and puts it to sleep
Open saucy browser outfit Mozilla has admitted that its Firefox OS smartphone experiment didn’t have legs and it will stop developing and selling the beasts.

Zenfone gives Asustek part of smartphone market
Actually making money on it
The Zenfone has given Asustek a well-deserved foothold in the smartphone market and even more surprisingly is making the outfit money.