TSMC hits record-breaking August revenue
AI boom keep the tills ringing
TSMC has just clocked up its busiest August in history, pulling in 3357.72 billion yuan (€96.1 billion), a 3.9 per cent rise month-on-month and 33.8 per cent up year-on-year.
Intel's Arc B770 “Battlemage” inches closer to launch
Intel hauls out big silicon and hopes gamers will bite
Troubled Chipzilla is gearing up for the release of its top Battlemage GPU, the Arc B770, and if shipping manifests are to be believed, it's already packing crates.
Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPU targets AI inferencing arms race
Rack-sized monster to crush token counts
Nvidia has decided that building GPUs the size of small towns is the way to stay ahead in AI, and its latest weapon is the Rubin CPX which is aimed squarely at inferencing and large context models.
SASE market booms as AI-ready branches fuel demand
Cisco and Palo Alto ride the SD-WAN gravy train
The Secure Access Service Edge market has seen a 22 per cent jump in revenue year-on-year, reaching $2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2025.
AI chip boom leaves TSMC scrambling to meet demand
Taiwanese foundry forced to plan packaging a year in advance
TSMC is finding itself on the back foot as demand for its advanced packaging tech has exploded thanks to the AI chip gold rush, with firms like Nvidia breathing down its neck.
Apple’s wafer-thin iPhone Air leaves fanboys cold
Fruity Cargo Cult tries to wow punters with pointless thinness
The new iPhone Air is so thin it might snap in a stiff breeze and even the die-hard Apple fanboys aren't cheering.
Oracle shouts about AI contracts
AI is cool for Catz
Oracle has stopped sulking about being late to cloud and is banging on about how it has become a must-have for the AI set.
AMD says FSR Redstone still coming in 2025
Promises path tracing to rival DLSS 4
AMD has confirmed that its long-teased FSR Redstone tech is still on track for a 2025 release, with a full presentation expected later this year.
Apple iPhone 16 Pro can be fried by car LiDAR
Volvo’s lasers scarred my camera
YouTube tech celeb Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, has discovered that his expensive iPhone 16 Pro camera can be permanently cooked by the lasers from self-driving cars.
Microsoft plays with light to kill off GPUs
Optical computer could crunch AI 100 times faster
A team of Volish boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a prototype analogue optical computer they claim could blow GPUs out of the water.