AMD confirms price hikes
Prices rise by ten per cent
AMD has told its graphics card partners to brace for a price rise across its entire GPU lineup after DRAM costs shot up again, putting an end to the brief spell when Radeon RX 9000 cards drifted back to their launch stickers.
Magician locks himself out of his own hand
RFID party trick goes sideways after forgotten password
A hi-tech stage magician managed to baffle himself after forgetting the password to an RFID chip he had implanted in his hand.
Zorin OS 18 racks up a million downloads
Defecting Windows users make up the bulk of the curious crowd
Open saucy Zorin OS 18 has clocked a million downloads in a single month, which is not bad for a Linux distro trying to lure disillusioned Windows refugees.
Napster’s magical mystery investor vanishes
Shareholders told that the long-promised billions may never arrive
Napster stunned its faithful when an online shareholder meeting on 20 November revealed that the massive investor it had been boasting about since January was unlikely to deliver the cash.
Nokia bets big in US
Invests billions away from Finland
Former rubber boot maker Nokia is chucking billions into the US as it tries to make its networking gear look clever enough for the AI circus.
AMD sets a date for elusive FSR Redstone
The long-teased graphics tech is meant to land on 10 December
The next-gen FidelityFX update FSR Redstone will start rolling out from 10 December.
Intel's Arrow Lake prices fall off a cliff
Black Friday exposes just how badly the new CPUs are struggling
Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra 200 series has seen its prices nearly halved since launch, a sign of how little love the Arrow Lake chips are getting. Amazon’s Black Friday sale pushed them to fresh lows, and some models now sell for barely half their original tags.
JEDEC cooks up chunky new DDR5 standard
Quad-rank CKDs promise fatter modules for next-gen desktops
JEDEC is hammering out a CQDIMM standard for DDR5 CKD memory that will let future platforms cram in far higher capacities without slowing everything to a crawl.
Intel spies a fresh payday in fancy packaging
US customers eye local options
Advanced packaging is shaping up to be a massive prospect for Troubled Chipzilla as US chip designers start sniffing around for someone nearby to wrap their shiny silicon.
IBM and Cisco chase quantum internet
Long-distance quantum links could work by 2030
Boffins working at IBM and Cisco reckon they can link quantum computers over serious distances, and they want to show it is doable before the end of 2030.