AMD’s AI chip hype falls flat
Santa Clara outfit fails to impress investors with sluggish data centre gains
AMD fluffed its lines again in the AI chip race, posting second-quarter data centre revenue that barely moved the needle despite the market frenzy around artificial intelligence.
OpenAI throws open its models to keep pace with China
Coughs up open-weight models after DeepSeek rattled its cage
OpenAI has released a pair of open-weight AI models, months after it was outflanked by Chinese upstart DeepSeek and left scrambling to rewrite its strategy.
TSMC wants more for less with 2nm node
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.
Intel's Core Ultra 120 is just Alder Lake in drag
Chipzilla's Rebadged chips cost triple what AMD offers
Intel's latest Core Ultra 120 and 120F are just a reheated Alder Lake design, flogged at a price that borders on fantasy.
10 times the rendering clout of an RTX 5090
Bolt Graphics lobbed a surprise lightning bolt into the GPU market with its upcoming Zeus card, promising outlandish specs that make the likes of NVIDIA and AMD look like they're standing still.