Zorin OS 18 racks up a million downloads
Defecting Windows users make up the bulk of the curious crowd
Open saucy Zorin OS 18 has clocked a million downloads in a single month, which is not bad for a Linux distro trying to lure disillusioned Windows refugees.
Nokia bets big in US
Invests billions away from Finland
Former rubber boot maker Nokia is chucking billions into the US as it tries to make its networking gear look clever enough for the AI circus.
Intel spies a fresh payday in fancy packaging
US customers eye local options
Advanced packaging is shaping up to be a massive prospect for Troubled Chipzilla as US chip designers start sniffing around for someone nearby to wrap their shiny silicon.
Tech company shares hammered
Wall Street still fears a bubble
The cocaine-nose jobs of Wall Street are not buying Nvidia's stellar results, and still fear that all that investment in AI is a bubble.
US signs off on big Middle East AI chip sale
Washington hands Abu Dhabi and Riyadh a tidy win
Washington’s latest export ruling hands the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia a fat slice of the AI action after months of dithering.
Nvidia shrugs off market jitters with roaring AI sales
A blowout quarter sends investors scrambling for their calculators
Nvidia lit up the market with a quarterly surge that made the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street forget their nerves about runaway AI spending.
Nvidia smokes peace pipe with Anthropic
One-gigawatt Claude commitment shows how frantic the AI gold rush has become
Nvidia has finally smoked a peace pipe with Anthropic after years of sniping, proving that the AI boom is now so ravenous it can turn rivals into drinking buddies.
RAM crunch threatens to snuff out budget GPUs
Rising costs shove AMD and Nvidia towards culling their cheap cards
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD and Nvidia are considering winding down production of their budget-oriented GPUs because the bill of materials has ballooned as GDDR prices shoot into the stratosphere.
Intel talks up 14A progress as it cosies up to Nvidia
Claims its next node is humming
Troubled Chipzilla has been busy telling investors its 14A process is shaping up nicely and that its freshly inked partnership with Nvidia will give its CPUs and GPUs a much-needed shove.
Oracle faces curse of OpenAI
Big Red’s grand AI punt keeps shredding its own valuation
Oracle’s market value has been sliding like a greased ferret since 10 September, when it trumpeted its $300bn deal with OpenAI and watched roughly $315bn vanish in the process.