Intel CEO pick tangled in PLA-linked Chinese investments
Lip-Bu Tan's deep China ties
Silicon Valley investor Lip-Bu Tan, who was tapped to steer troubled Chipzilla out of its tailspin, holds financial stakes in hundreds of Chinese tech outfits, some with direct links to the People’s Liberation Army.
Tariff chaos fuels robot revival
Volatility, but automation’s future looks bulletproof
The tariffs crisis might be a migraine for many, but it's opening some tasty new doors for the AI, robotics and automation sector.
Smartphones to outnumber humans
Chinese brands blitz old guard
By late 2027 or early 2028, the planet will have more smartphones than people, and the industry's old titans are watching the tide turn.
China export curbs on H20 AI chips safe
Donald [hamburger-eating surrender monkey] Trump’s White House has quietly shelved a looming crackdown on Nvidia’s H20 chip exports to China, just days after the GPU peddler’s CEO Jensen Huang dined at Mar-a-Lago — where seats went for a $1 million a head.
Investor bets big on AMD’s AI ‘second place’
Inference, not training, may be AMD’s golden ticket
AMD might be down 50 per cent in six months, but investor Yiannis Zourmpanos (pictured) is doubling down, insisting the market’s missing the point. While the chipmaker continues to trail Nvidia, he says the prize isn’t in training gargantuan AI models—it’s in running them.
