Another 16 pin plug cooked
Mid-range cards are getting singed too
A Sapphire RX 9070 XT Nitro+ owner claims his 16-pin plug caught fire after months of trouble-free gaming.
Chipmakers expect next year to be a feeding frenzy
Bubble still bubbling
Chipmakers are expecting to trouser billions in cash next year after pulling in more than $400 billion in combined sales in 2025, the largest year for chips on record.
Nvidia eyes LPU stacking for Feynman inference grab
Hybrid bonding, SRAM dies, and a possible CUDA headache
Nvidia wants to own inference, and word on the street is that it is lining up its Feynman GPUs to do it.
TSMC lines up four years of price hikes as 3nm stays squeezed
Rivals rejoice
TSMC is getting ready to jack up 3nm wafer prices, and nobody seems prepared to get upset about it.
Technology in 2025 was a bit of a snooze
A year-end review
2025 was a bit of a snooze, all things considered.
AM4 returns as DDR5 prices bite
Old DDR4 rigs are trendy again.
DDR5 pricing is turning PC building into a bad joke, so many people are crawling back to the older AM4 platform.
5K gaming is too hard, even for an RTX 5090D
Too many pixels, not enough puff
Some panel makers are pushing 5K gaming monitors at punters, but the reality is that normal players will be waiting a while before they make any sense outside marketing decks.
Intel's foundry problem is trust
Customers do not fancy handing a rival their crown jewels.
Troubled Chipzilla’s foundry push is tripping over the awkward detail that it still competes with the customers it is courting.
TSMC’s N-2 rule leaves US big tech snuffling around Samsung’s 2nm
Taiwan keeps the sharp stuff at home, so Texas is suddenly popular.
TSMC has one hand tied behind its back, and Samsung Electronics is trying to cash in.
ByteDance to increase AI spending in 2026, aiming to challenge US
AI expansion goes global as ByteDance aims to compete
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is set to ramp up its AI investments significantly next year.