Samsung to dump titanium for aluminium on Galaxy S26 Ultra
Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals.
Crucial pushes LPCAMM2 laptop memory to 8533 MT/s
Compact modules promise speed, efficiency, and up to 64 GB capacity
Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and support for capacities as high as 64 GB.
Cerebras scoops $1bn to take on Nvidia
Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.
Taiwan trade boss denies US chip grab demands
We are not surrendering more than half of output
Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production.
Musk wants to replace Wikipedia with Grokipedia
Hard to see who we want to win here
Elon Musk is taking a swing at Wackypedia, claiming he can do it better with his own AI effort called Grokipedia.
Nvidia releases its Battlefield 6 Geforce Game Ready driver
Nvidia DLSS 4 support coming to several new games
Nvidia has released its new GeForce 581.42 WHQL Game Ready driver, adding game optimizations for Battlefield 6 and FBC: Firebreak games, as well as fixing several bugs. Nvidia also announced several new games that will be getting DLSS support.
€519 in Europe, still no sign of it in the US
Gigabyte has announced the availability of its rather interesting 27-inch QHD WOLED monitor that comes with a 280Hz refresh rate and a 4-sided borderless design, the Gigabyte MO27Q28G.
Intel sharpens claws for Threadripper scrap
Granite Rapids-WS brings 86 cores and 4.8GHz boost to workstation fight
Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz.
Zhaoxin rolls out KH-50000 server chips with 96 cores
Chiplet design and DDR5 support to take on EPYC
Zhaoxin has unleashed its KH-50000 server CPUs, and the company is pitching them as a serious step up for China’s domestic server market.
Samsung fires up 2nm Exynos 2600 for Galaxy S26
Yields creep up to 50 per cent
Samsung has finally pulled the trigger on mass production of the Exynos 2600, its first 2nm GAA SoC built on the SF2 process.