Smartwatch bubble bursts
Calling time on another Apple product
It seems the smartwatch bubble has burst, with global sales taking a tumble for the first time—largely thanks to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple dropping the ball.
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 and Ryzen AI 7 350 processors
Sapphire is apparently looking to make a return to the mini-PC market, and is showcasing two new Edge AI mini-PC series SKUs at the Embedded World 2025.
Mark Klein has died
The unlikely hero who stood up to the government
Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who blew the whistle on one of the most extensive illegal surveillance operations in American history, has died. He was 79.
Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i
Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.
Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.”
Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw computational muscle to examine how cells repair DNA damage.
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”
Boffins don’t back the hype
Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.
ASML and Imec team up on sub-2nm process technology
Bankrolled by the EU
ASML and Imec have decided to get cosy for the next five years, ensuring that the Belgian research lab gets a High-NA EUV lithography machine.
Intel hires Lip-Bu Tan for new CEO
Needs quick turn around before Celine Dion starts singing
Troubled Chipzilla has once again shuffled the deck chairs on its sinking semiconductor ship, bringing in industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest CEO to attempt a turnaround.
Meta training its own AI chips
RISC-V business
Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.
Gigabyte mocks Asus
EZ Latch Plus doesn’t mangle your motherboard
Gigabyte has thrown some serious shade at Asus with a new video flexing its EZ Latch Plus mechanism—showing a GPU being installed and removed a hundred times without any damage to the motherboard’s PCIe slot.
