
AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ brings 128B LLMs home
Strix Halo platform lets PCs muscle into AI territory
AMD has flung open the doors to local large language model mayhem by enabling support for up to 128 billion parameters on consumer machines.

Apple faces earnings test as Wall Street eyes cracks in empire
Flat iPhone sales, legal threats to App Store and Google deal unsettle investors
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is about to unveil its latest earnings report, and the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are getting twitchy. Despite a stock price that’s multiplied ninefold since 2015, Apple hasn’t sold more iPhones in 2024 than it did a decade ago.

Nvidia chases more H20 chips from TSMC
Wants 300,000 extra units
Nvidia is grovelling at the door of TSMC, begging it to crank out another 300,000 of its H20 AI chips, according to Reuters.

Indie unveils whisper-quiet laser for quantum and secure comms
Aims its new photonics toy beyond cars
Indie Semiconductor has taken the wraps off a super quiet laser module.

Apple flogs recycled Pixel feature with moody cat ad
iPhone’s “new” Clean Up tool is actually just Google’s Magic Eraser in drag
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has wheeled out its latest “innovation” for iOS 26, which is really just a old Google Pixel feature dressed up in Californian smug.

Opera sings to Brazilian watchdog over Edge’s browser bullying
Microsoft accused of kicking rivals out of Windows with dodgy tactics
Browser minnow Opera has lodged an antitrust complaint in Brazil claiming Microsoft’s Edge is being unfairly shoved down users' throats.

Micron rolls out SSDs for AI data centres
Power-saving speed demons arrive as AI infrastructure gets a storage upgrade
Micron boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs after shoving some serious tech into their latest SSDs to give artificial intelligence an extra kick in the circuits.

AMD jacks up MI350 AI chip price by 70 per cent
Reckons it can still slug it out with Nvidia's Blackwell
AMD has decided it no longer wants to be the budget option in AI hardware and is slapping a 70 per cent price hike on its high-end Instinct MI350 AI accelerator.

Nvidia may launch RTX 50 SUPER GPUs in time for Christmas
Holiday splash with VRAM-heavy refresh
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Nvidia may launch RTX 50 SUPER GPUs in time for Christmas

China’s MTT S90 GPU beats RTX 4060 in gaming tests
Moore Threads closes gap on Nvidia thanks to driver fixes
China’s GPU scene is no longer just a sideshow. Moore Threads' latest card, the MTT S90, has been benchmarked and managed to give Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 a bloody nose in several tests.