Xbox queen says next console will be ‘very premium’ and ‘very high-end’
Published in Gaming


Bond confirms model will be shaken not stirred

Software King of the World Microsoft's Xbox president and chief executive Sarah Bond has confirmed Vole is working on its next-generation console and wants everyone to know it will not be cheap and cheerful.

Intel jacks up the price of Raptor Lake
Published in PC Hardware


Lunar Lake fails to take off

Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.

SanDisk memory card survived wreck of the Titan
Published in News


Investigators uncover a working memory card two years after doomed dive

Recovery teams sifting through the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible have made an extraordinary discovery.

Alibaba cloud says its Aegaeon GPU system cuts Nvidia use by 82 per cent
Published in AI


Scheduler squeezes more work from fewer H20 accelerators

Alibaba Cloud boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having found a way to make Nvidia’s costly GPUs actually earn their keep.

Apple throws tantrum over EU big tech rules
Published in News


Laws for everyone else shouldn’t apply to its sacred walled garden

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has stomped into a Luxembourg courtroom, throwing its toys out of the pram claiming that Europe’s Digital Markets Act is too mean for a company of its delicate constitution.

Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
Published in News


Beijing’s patience snaps

Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.

Blackrock sinks billions into Meta’s Louisiana AI project
Published in AI


AI gold rush burns through even more cash

BlackRock has thrown billions into Meta’s latest AI adventure, backing a massive private-debt deal that could fund a mega data centre.

ASUS announces new Radeon TUF Series RX 9070 XT Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition
Published in Graphics


Limited edition to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

ASUS has announced yet another limited edition graphics card, the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Edition, designed in cooperation with AMD and Activision.

NVIDIA slips in new RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell SKU
Published in Graphics


With 72GB of GDDR7 ECC memory

NVIDIA has silently introduced a new version of the RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPU that comes with 72GB of GDDR7 memory.

JEDEC announces near completion of LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 standard
Published in AI

Low-profile LPDRAM modules for data center AI applications

JEDEC has announced it is nearing completion of JESD328: LPDDR5/5X Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module (SOCAMM2) Common Standard, which is a new standard for low-profile LPDRAM modules for data center AI applications.