Apple bribes punters with bigger batteries
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.
Qualcomm slaps ‘Gen 5’ badge on Snapdragon 8 Elite
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.
Chinese boffins bend light with fake magnetic fields
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.
IC design industry sees weak peak season
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.
Nvidia kicks off “cold revolution 3.0”
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.