Arizona Fab’s profits fall off a cliff

TSMC’s big Arizona adventure was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US chip industry, although it now looks more like an expensive lesson in why fabs prefer cheaper postcodes.

$10,000 down the loo

A $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell workstation card reportedly snapped under its own weight during a house move, becoming a pricey brick.

Thiel and other mega-rich investors dump their stakes amid fraying nerves

Panic spread through trading floors after venture capitalist and Trump cheerleader Peter Thiel flogged all the Nvidia shares he held.

Fancy first dibs on AI silicon

Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.

Outfit promises cosmic performance from a chip that exists only on paper.

Tachyum has rolled out fresh specs for its upcoming Prodigy Universal Processor and the sheet reads like someone let a marketing intern loose with a calculator.

Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.

A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.

SoftBank’s chip shuffle stirs the AI pot

SoftBank's theatrical exit by selling its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia mattered far less to the chipmaker than the chatter suggested, because the holding was tiny beside a $4.8 trillion colossus and barely shifted the dial.

Zen 5 refresh in 2026, Zen 6 in 2027, and a mysterious new GPU to bury RDNA

AMD has lifted the kimono on its next-gen client CPUs and GPUs, with new codenames straight out of Greek mythology.

Son's AI obsession unnerves investors despite record profits

SoftBank Group shares nosedived 10 per cent after it dumped its entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion, choosing to punt the lot on OpenAI instead.

Fidelity’s Huang begs for wafers as fabs hit their limits

TSMC’s latest sports day turned into something of a customer summit when Fidelity boss Huang Renxun publicly pleaded for more chip supply, declaring that “without TSMC, there would be no Fidelity.”