Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation

AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future UDNA cards might get fixed-function hardware to handle the heavy lifting.

Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals.

Compact modules promise speed, efficiency, and up to 64 GB capacity

Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and support for capacities as high as 64 GB.

Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.

We are not surrendering more than half of output

Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production.

Hard to see who we want to win here

Elon Musk is taking a swing at Wackypedia, claiming he can do it better with his own AI effort called Grokipedia.

Granite Rapids-WS brings 86 cores and 4.8GHz boost to workstation fight

Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz.

Chiplet design and DDR5 support to take on EPYC

Zhaoxin has unleashed its KH-50000 server CPUs, and the company is pitching them as a serious step up for China’s domestic server market.

Yields creep up to 50 per cent 

Samsung has finally pulled the trigger on mass production of the Exynos 2600, its first 2nm GAA SoC built on the SF2 process.

Pins its hopes on 18A process

Intel's upcoming Panther Lake mobile CPUs are set to debut in late 2025, with high-volume production in early 2026, and they’ll be the first proper outing for the company’s much talked-about18A node.