Markets smell trouble ahead

Qualcomm blew past the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s expectations with a $10.9 billion revenue haul for its second fiscal quarter ending March 2025, a 17 per cent rise. Adjusted earnings per share sat at $2.85, comfortably above consensus.

AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out

TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage. 

Judge torches Apple for “willful” defiance, refers case to prosecutors

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been torched by a federal judge for openly ignoring a 2021 court order on App Store payments and could now be staring down the barrel of a criminal contempt probe.

Tim Cook reckons the “personal Siri” only half-baked

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s much-hyped “Apple Intelligence” revamp of Siri is struggling to remember its lines, with company boss Tim Cook telling the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street that it is still nowhere near ready for showtime.

Bets on old-school lithography to dodge soaring costs

TSMC, once the trendy pioneer of bleeding-edge chipmaking, is now pulling a handbrake turn on high-NA EUV adoption.

5GHz mobile spoiler alert

The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 looks set to gatecrash the iPhone 17’s launch with a reveal as early as September.

Because it is just so well made

A Lufthansa Airbus A380 flying from Los Angeles to Munich had to make an unscheduled landing in Boston after a passenger jammed their precious Apple iPad into a business class seat, setting off alarm bells about lithium-ion fires at cruising altitude.

Tariffs push Job’s Mob to double down on Indian production

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is scrambling to shift all US-bound iPhone assembly to India by 2026, as US tariff tantrums make China too hot to handle.

UBS and Gartner slash forecasts

Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.

Trump screams extortion

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.