
Intel needs a chainsaw, not a plaster
Nvidia’s cash will not fix Intel’s mess without a split
Troubled Chipzilla scored a temporary win when Nvidia lobbed it a $5 billion bone, but if Intel thinks that is enough to crawl back into relevance, it is dreaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Anthropic at odds with Trump's AI Tsar
Regulation over the free market
While other tech titans toasted President Donald Trump at a White House cheese and nibbles, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei [pictured] stayed in California to fight what he sees as an existential drift.

AMD bulks up business desktops with new Ryzen Pro chips
Zen 5 and Zen 4 parts target office drones with AI engines and lower power draw
AMD has expanded its commercial desktop range with new Ryzen Pro 9000 and Ryzen Pro 7000 processors, pitching them at businesses that want performance, efficiency and enterprise features without headaches.

Dell slaps Intel's Gaudi 3 into Poweredge servers
Mainstream firms finally offer Intel’s sluggish AI chips
The Grey Box Shifter, Dell has decided to give Troubled Chipzilla a leg up in AI by slotting the much-delayed Gaudi 3 accelerators into its PowerEdge XE7740 servers.

Huawei boasts of 192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026
192-core Kungpeng chips by 2026 and 256+ cores by 2028
Huawei used its Connect 2025 shindig in China to outline a roadmap for its Kungpeng CPUs and Ascend accelerators, promising to push domestic high-performance computing and AI hardware into gargantuan territory.

Zuckerberg’s new Ray-Ban specs flop on stage
Meta boss bets on ‘superintelligence’ while glasses can’t even take a call
Mark Zuckerberg has shown off Meta’s first smart glasses with a built-in screen, insisting that wearables capable of replacing smartphones are the future of computing, however they did not work very well on their first outing.

Deepseek caught serving dodgy code to China's ‘enemies’
Falun Gong requests get broken software while everyone else gets the good stuff
A new report claims China’s flagship AI outfit DeepSeek is sabotaging users if they happen to identify with groups Beijing doesn’t like.

EU’s Digital Markets Act flawed claims new report
It will never stand up in court
A new study has torn into the EU’s Digital Markets Act, claiming its clunky procedures and lack of transparency are making the law nearly impossible to enforce.

TSMC smashes another record after interest rate cut
Chipmaker drags Taiwan market to fresh high
Taiwan’s TSMC has surged again, with its US ADR rising 0.3 per cent on Wednesday to close at $262.79, marking four straight days of record highs.

AMD shoves Zen 5 into the edge
EPYC 4005 rolled out
AMD has rolled out its Zen 5-based EPYC Embedded 4005 CPUs, claiming the chips will power everything from firewalls to edge servers without breaking the bank.