Italy tells Apple its privacy halo is just another moat
Rome hands out a €98.6 million reality check.
Italy’s antitrust watchdog has sunk its teeth into the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's rump with a €98.6 million ($116 million) fine after deciding its App Tracking Transparency wheeze cramped App Store competition.
TSMC’s N-2 rule leaves US big tech snuffling around Samsung’s 2nm
Taiwan keeps the sharp stuff at home, so Texas is suddenly popular.
TSMC has one hand tied behind its back, and Samsung Electronics is trying to cash in.
Memory maths threatens Apple’s AI clustering trick
Expiring supply deals put the squeeze on Mac-based computing
A cunning plan to use clustered Mac mini or Apple Studio boxes, wired together with Thunderbolt 5, to hoard memory for AI is coming unstuck.
Apple locks in Samsung as DRAM shortage bites
Memory crunch reshapes the iPhone supply chain
A worsening DRAM shortage has pushed Samsung into pole position as Apple races to secure memory supplies ahead of next year’s iPhone launches.
Intel close to scoring a packaging deal with Apple
CoWoS shortages open the door for Chipzilla’s EMIB
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is weighing up Intel’s chip packaging tech as bottlenecks at TSMC threaten to slow its bespoke AI server silicon ambitions.
Trump phone promise collapses into refurb farce
Missing handset, inflated refurbs and patriotic bluster fill the gap
Trump Mobile’s long-promised T1 handset still hasn't appeared, leaving customers waiting as the operation flogs refurbished phones at inflated prices instead.
Microsoft dusts off old tricks to scare users off Chrome
Edge gets the hard sell in new browser wars
Software King of the World, Microsoft, is once again trying to stop users from downloading Google Chrome, and nobody who has watched this industry for five minutes will be shocked.
Apple toys with a bargain MacBook with an old iPhone brain
Recycled silicon reality
A cheaper MacBook could soon shove aside the MacBook Air. However, the fruity cargo cult Apple seems undecided about whether it deserves modern silicon or the brain of an ancient iPhone 13 it might have lying around.
Meta looks like it is binning its ‘open’ headset dream
Horizon OS partners left staring at the wall
Meta has slammed the brakes on its third-party VR headset scheme, effectively killing Horizon OS devices from Asus and Lenovo.
Baltra is just another Apple chip to feed the inference beast
Custom silicon, same old dependency
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's over-hyped server chip may be to provide the outfit with its own cloud AI silicon, which is getting too expensive.