India’s hiring pyramid smashed

Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys created empires by piling armies of junior staff into a vast hiring pyramid.

Goertek tightens its grip on smart glasses production

A top Chinese hardware outfit has tightened its hold over Meta’s supply chain for its AI-powered spectacles, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to cosy up to the Trump administration’s anti-Beijing crusade.

London start-up hauls in $200 million to take aim at Apple and Samsung

London outfit Nothing has pulled in $200 million (€186 million) in fresh funding to keep chipping away at the global smartphone duopoly of the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple and Samsung.

Regulator drags chipmaker into trade war mess

China has accused Nvidia of violating its antimonopoly law, turning the screw on Washington as the latest round of US-China trade talks wrapped up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.