AMD gobbles server share while Chipzilla spins its wheels
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Mercury numbers show AMD's silicon chewing through the market

Mercury Research's latest bean-counting for the first quarter of 2025 shows AMD pulling off another blinder, clocking a record 39.4 per cent server revenue share. That figure is up a chunky 6.5 points compared to the same time last year and 3.1 points better than the previous quarter.

Chipzilla punts Arc Pro B-series at AI workstations
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Intel slaps 24GB of VRAM on new cards 

Troubled Chipzilla has tipped up at Computex 2025 flogging a fresh line of Arc Pro graphics cards, and this time it’s all about AI.

MSI claws back with AMD-powered Steam Deck rival
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Ryzen Z2 Extreme and 24GB of RAM land in 8-inch handheld 

MSI has officially revealed its AMD-powered Claw A8 BZ2EM handheld gaming PC at Computex 2025, and it looks like a serious bit of kit.

Tech's Artificial General Intelligence dream is just a fantasy
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Until someone has a new idea, this is all just expensive word salad

The tech industry is running full tilt towards Artificial General Intelligence, but the tools it’s using barely understand sarcasm, let alone reality.

Tech shortsightedness could be killing tomorrow’s coders
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AI’s appetite for junior jobs is hollowing out the ladder before Gen Z gets a foot on it

The IT industry is merrily chainsawing its own future by starving the bottom of the talent funnel, all in the name of efficiency and AI-fuelled delusion.

Qualcomm drags itself back into the data centre racket
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Once more into the breach

Qualcomm has decided it wants another crack at the data centre business, this time hoping Nvidia’s AI-laced coat-tails will carry it past previous failures.

Huang rewrites PC gaming history at Computex
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Nvidia boss forgets gaming existed before 1999

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang opened his Computex 2025 keynote with the kind of historical revisionism that would make a dictator blush.

MSI’s AI server lineup gets serious upgrade
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Built on NVIDIA’s MGX and DGX Station architectures

MSI has tipped up to Comptex 2025  flaunting its latest AI server arsenal built on Nvidia's MGX and DGX Station architectures.

Nvidia’s retro driver hype cools
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Nvidia’s retro driver hype cools


Core 2 meets cold, hard reality

Earlier this week, a driver update from Nvidia had retro-PC fans frothing with excitement. Thanks to the removal of a pesky POPCNT instruction requirement, GeForce drivers suddenly played nice with ancient Intel CPUs all the way back to the Core 2 era.

MIT’s breakthrough makes chips stretchier than pasta
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Boffins fling something against the wall and it sticks

MIT boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a new form of chip that behaves like pasta.