France tightens grip on Eutelsat with €1.35bn cash dump
No surrender as France doubles down on OneWeb
The French government has decided to lob €717 million into struggling satellite outfit Eutelsat, more than doubling its stake in a bid to prop up OneWeb and stake a bigger claim in the low Earth orbit space race.
Western Digital drops SN7100 4TB Gen 4 SSD pricing
NVMe drive hits $249 as Gen 5 gear pushes prices down
As PCIe Gen 5 SSDs start to flood the market with faster numbers and eye-watering thermals, Gen 4 gear like the WD_BLACK SN7100 is becoming a proper steal. The 4TB model is now going for just $249.99 on Amazon, slipping under the previous low of $269.99.
Fake AMD 9800X3D turns out to be hollow scam
Gamers Nexus uncovers a CPU with no guts
Someone’s been flogging bogus AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips online, and someone sent a dud to Gamers Nexus who cracked it open to find absolutely nothing inside.
AMD leaks its Ryzen 9600X3D and 9000 PRO CPUs
Zen 5 chips outed by Radeon driver
AMD has done the usual trick of leaking its upcoming hardware via a routine software update, this time outing the Ryzen 9600X3D, the 9600, and a fleet of Ryzen 9000 PRO CPUs in the latest Radeon SI driver.
Apple kills off FireWire in macOS Tahoe beta
Legacy gear dumped as Job's Mob ignores its own past
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has axed support for FireWire 400 and 800 in the first macOS Tahoe developer beta, leaving old iPods and legacy drives to rot in drawers.
Infineon rolls out space-grade memory for LEO satellite rush
Radiation-tolerant chips for budget rocket jockeys
Infineon has lifted the kimono on a batch of memory chips designed to handle the mild radiation of low Earth orbit without the usual military price tag.
Marvell scores billions in AI chip deal
Two new hyperscalers signed up as demand surges for custom silicon
Chip designer Marvell reckons it has landed two new hyperscale cloud clients and is sniffing around more than 50 other deals as demand for its customised AI silicon keeps growing.
AMD FSR 4 on RDNA 3 is a half-baked miracle
Upscaling better, but frame rate takes a kicking
A Reddit user has forced AMD’s shiny new FSR 4 to run on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, despite the chipmaker insisting the tech is only for its RDNA 4 GPUs.
Intel shows off flashy graphics at SIGGRAPH
Flaunts trillion-triangle jungle demo and AI denoiser on ARC B580
Intel took to SIGGRAPH and HPG 2025 to shout about the graphical wonders its latest GPUs can now pull off.
SK hynix gets Nvidia’s HBM4 gig
Beats Samsung and Micron
SK hynix has pulled ahead of its memory rivals by bagging NVIDIA’s first HBM4 orders, giving the South Korean chipmaker a premium position for the launch of Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.
