TSMC not sweating Samsung chip push
Pegatron's Tong Zixian reckons Samsung and Intel are playing catch-up
Samsung might be bagging more US business, but Pegatron chairman Tong Zixian says Taiwan’s chip champ TSMC has nothing to worry about yet.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					AMD to build two monster AI rigs for Oak Ridge
Lux and Discovery to fly the flag
AMD has landed a deal with the US government to supply silicon for two heavy-duty supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Nvidia Geforce RTX 5090 FE “worst GPU design ever”
Repair specialist says Nvidia's flagship card is a modder’s nightmare
Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been labelled a disaster by repair experts after a failed attempt to add water cooling rendered the GPU completely unfixable.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					AMD pulls an Intel with rebranded Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100
“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 
AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Cybersecurity firms caught with 1990s flaws
Schoolboy bugs in mission-critical systems
The cybersecurity industry has found itself in the awkward position of being pwned by the same ancient flaws it has been warning everyone else about for decades.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					AI is being used as a scapegoat for downsizing
Firms blame the bots
Companies are swinging the redundancy axe and blaming artificial intelligence for it.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Apple slapped down in £1.5bn UK App Store lawsuit
Job’s Mob abused its near-total control
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has had its halo dented in the UK, after losing a landmark £1.5 billion class action that accused it of gouging developers and users through its notorious App Store tollbooth.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Intel's shares leap as turnaround gains steam
Outfit still on a tightrope
Shares in Troubled Chipzilla surged after the struggling semiconductor outfit posted better than expected revenue, signalling tentative progress in its long and painful turnaround.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Anthropic nabs a million Google Cloud chips for AI
Start-up inks deal worth tens of billions to secure computing power
Anthropic has struck a deal to grab hold of one million Google Cloud chips to train and run its artificial intelligence models, tightening its bond with one of its biggest investors.
				    
				  
				  
				  					
					Razer runs with tired sexist trope in new headset ad
ANC now apparently stands for “Annoying Nag Canceller.”
Despite women making up 48 per cent of the gaming crowd and Razer headsets being among the most popular on the market, the company's marketing team has managed to run face-first into a sexist pothole with its latest ad.