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.

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.

Galaxy S26 gets overclocked monster at 4.74 GHz

Qualcomm is about to unleash its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 which it claims will be the fastest mobile chip on the planet.

Real countries have fabs

Intel has been strong-armed into holding on to its bleeding foundry business after Donald Trump’s administration tied subsidies to an equity grab.

Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt

Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.

No more dropped packets, roaming flops, and latency hell

Qualcomm is leading a new crusade to make Wi-Fi suck less in the real world.

Job's Mob and chums face 50 per cent higher costs for next-gen wafers

Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC is cranking up its 2nm node production, and by 2026 it plans to be pumping out 60,000 wafers a month from four fabs running at full tilt.

Discrete NPUs to your desktop

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth rumour claiming that AMD is toying with the idea of a discrete NPU card for consumer PCs.

Snapdragon pulls 61 per cent of revenue as chipmaker bets on glasses, cars and clouds

Qualcomm has managed to beat the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s estimates for Q2 2025, pulling in a tidy $10.37 billion in revenue, even as the clock ticks down on its once-lucrative relationship with the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple.

TSMC rival finally gets a win in foundry fight

Samsung Electronics has signed a 22.8 trillion won (about $16.5 billion) chip foundry contract with what it calls a "global company" which the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are convinced is Tesla.