
Chipzilla suffers security fails across CPUs, GPUs, and gaming gear
Intel’s Core Ultra, Arc graphics, and gaming software infected with fresh bugs
Troubled Chipzilla just added another chapter to its ever-growing “How Not to Secure Your Silicon” anthology. This time it’s not just the CPUs taking the heat, its Arc GPUs and even its gaming software have joined the bug bonanza.

Chipzilla’s big 18A gamble not paying off yet
Intel’s future pinned to a node no one’s buying
Troubled Chipzilla’s much-hyped 18A manufacturing node, the supposed centrepiece of its comeback plan, is currently about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit.

Hygon ditches AMD Zen to forge 128-core monster
Rattling EPYC and Xeon cages
China’s Hygon has delivered a monster CPU that might give Troubled Chipzilla’s Xeon and AMD’s EPYC a right scare.

Intel chips suffers new branch privilege injection leak
Another Spectre hole
Troubled Chipzilla has managed another spectacular security belly-flop, with researchers finding a shiny new hole in all modern Intel CPUs that leaks data from privileged software like the operating system kernel.

Intel ditches Deep Link
Chipzilla gives up tying CPU and GPU together
Troubled Chipzilla has officially canned its Deep Link suite, quietly shelving one of its more ambitious attempts to get CPUs and GPUs working together.

Chipzilla returning to greatness with 18A node
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback
Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.

US trade ban slaps $1.5bn hole in AMD’s results
Su says AI demand remains strong despite MI308 blockade
AMD warned that new US export rules will cost it $1.5 billion in lost sales this year, mainly due to a ban on shipping its MI308 chips to China.

Nvidia and MediaTek plot Arm-based PC coup
New chip could rattle Qualcomm, Chipzilla and AMD at Computex
Nvidia and MediaTek are teaming up to launch an Arm-based chip for AI-ready Windows PCs. The official reveal is set for Computex 2025.

Arrow Lake die shots show Chipzilla's chiplet gamble
Looks slick, plays slow, and still can't beat its own last-gen gear
Troubled Chipzilla has taken its trousers down to show off the innards of Arrow Lake, and while the chiplet-based design is a visual treat, it’s struggling to keep up where it matters in games.

TSMC's 2nm chips on track
AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out
TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage.