Nvidia and AMD hand Trump 15 per cent of China chip revenues
Protection money
Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the Trump administration 15 per cent of revenues from their China chip sales in return for export licences.
Raja Koduri resurrects GPU dreams with startup gamble
Oxmiq aims to gut the GPU ecosystem and build it back from scratch
Intel's former GPU supreme Dalek, Raja Koduri has popped up at a new startup, Oxmiq Labs, where he plans to reinvent the entire AI GPU market with a so-called “software first” plan that seems hell-bent on killing off CUDA’s stranglehold.
Qualcomm wants Wi-Fi 8 to work when everything goes wrong
No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell
Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.
AMD and Microsoft plan one chip to rule them all
In the darkness bind them
AMD is getting chummy with Microsoft again and is cooking up a custom chip that will run the next-gen Xbox console, and PCs and handhelds.
US strong-arms TSMC to save Intel
Trump demands 49 per cent stake in Intel as price for tariff relief
The Trump administration is trying to force Taiwanese chip giant TSMC to buy nearly half of Troubled Chipzilla to secure a break on trade tariffs.
Sony still pretending Xperia matters
Execs call dying phone division "very important" despite shrinking market presence
Sony seems to be clinging to the fantasy that its Xperia phone business is vital to its future, despite barely shifting units and the outfit withdrawing from most major markets.
Intel board at war over CEO’s comeback plan
Tan boxed in as directors stall every move
Lip-Bu Tan took the helm of Troubled Chipzilla with a turnaround plan and the board’s supposed backing. It hasn’t taken long for both to unravel.
OpenAI hypes up GPT-5
Altman reckons it's a "major upgrade"
OpenAI has finally coughed up GPT-5, a supposedly smarter version of its ChatGPT chatbot, which chief Sam Altman insists is a “major upgrade” in the quest to build something resembling artificial general intelligence.
Trump demands that Intel's CEO is fired
Bring me the head of Lip-Bu Tan
US President Donald Trump has demanded the head of Troubled Chipzilla’s freshly anointed chief executive, Lip-Bu Tan, claiming the semiconductor veteran is “highly conflicted”.
Intel boss under fire for China ties as company sinks further
Lip-Bu Tan faces scrutiny over Cadence scandal and Beijing links
Intel is facing serious questions from US lawmakers about its new boss's ties to China and a criminal case that started before he arrived.