Big speed gains but no SPR for now

TSMC has rolled out its new A14 node, marking its first foray into the 1.4 nm-class manufacturing tech, and it’s already boasting serious gains in performance, power efficiency, and logic density.

Brushes off tariff fears

SK Hynix, Nvidia’s go-to for high-bandwidth memory, has posted a 158 per cent leap in quarterly operating profit, hitting 7.4 trillion won (€5.1 billion), while shrugging off the usual US trade panic.

Conical 5G antennas installed

Vodafone Germany has decided that it's had enough of dropped calls in tunnels and is now deploying conical multi-band mobile antennas to beef up 5G coverage in the country’s underground rat runs.

UBS and Gartner slash forecasts.

Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.

Trump screams extortion

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

Didn’t need to freeze the quantum cats

A team of German boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs having sent the first-ever coherent quantum communications across 254 km of bog-standard telecoms fibre.

Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile

Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.

Lazy chip recycle

Samsung’s obsession with flogging dead horses continues with the Galaxy S25 FE limping out with the same Exynos 2400e processor found in last year’s S24 FE. 

Reanimated Navi 24 silicon haunts budget builds like it’s 2022

Chinese outfit Zephyr has dug up a ghost from AMD’s bargain bin past—the Radeon RX 6500, a budget GPU that reaks of stale silicon and disapointment. 

18A in awkward limbo

Troubled Chipzilla is set to source the compute tiles for its next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUS from TSMC’s shiny new 2nm process, confirming what’s been murmured for months: its 18a node is not the chosen one yet.