Apple bribes punters with bigger batteries
Wants to force them to eSims
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has decided it knows what’s best for its users, this time dangling bigger batteries as a bribe to get people off physical SIM cards.
Qualcomm slaps ‘Gen 5’ badge on Snapdragon 8 Elite
Tries to make sense of naming mess
Qualcomm is about to wheel out its next flagship mobile platform at the Snapdragon Summit, and it has decided to call it Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
Chinese boffins bend light with fake magnetic fields
Photonic trickery could drive faster comms gear
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having invented some photonic witchcraft that could drive comms gear faster.
IC design industry sees weak peak season
Tariff timing and fading subsidies blamed for flat demand
The IC design industry is enduring a dull peak season, with even the usual pre-holiday stocking for China’s October break and Double 11 sales coming in weaker than expected.
Nvidia kicks off “cold revolution 3.0”
Suppliers told to cough up pricier heat dissipation gear
Nvidia is demanding its suppliers develop new microchannel water cooling plate (MLCP) technology, with unit prices running three to five times higher than existing solutions.
UK’s AI ‘hit squad’ can’t hire enough staff
Government unit underspends half its budget chasing scarce talent
A UK government artificial intelligence unit that was supposed to save £45 billion across the civil service managed to burn through less than half its budget last year.
Lenovo shows off bizarre rotatable laptop and smart stand
Concept kit appears at Innovation World 2025
Lenovo has wheeled out some truly oddball kit, including a laptop with a spinning screen and a smart stand that stalks its user.
Intel digs up Comet Lake corpse and calls it Core i5-110
Chipzilla wants $200 for reheated 14nm leftovers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided that if it cannot impress punters with bleeding-edge innovation, it might as well re-sell the same old tat with a shinier sticker. It has released the Core i5-110, a Comet Lake processor that first saw daylight in 2020 and is inexplicably back from the dead.
SK hynix puts HBM4 into full production
Chipmaker claims "World’s fastest AI memory" ready for mass rollout
SK hynix says it has wrapped up development of its HBM4 memory and is ready to churn it out for the AI bubble boom.
Albania hires AI minister to keep crooks at bay
Humanity has failed
Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama has appointed a new Cabinet member who cannot be bribed, threatened or buttered up because she is an AI bot.