Blame AI

Reports from China suggest that Troubled Chipzilla and AMD have hiked CPU prices across multiple product lines this month, catching retailers and distributors flat-footed.

Red faces in Radeon land after driver chaos and user revolt

After a torrent of angry users, botched uploads and contradictory statements, AMD has published a full web page promising to keep supporting its older Radeon graphics cards after all.

Korean giant profits surge

Samsung is charging ahead into 2026 with plans to begin mass production of next-generation memory and chip technologies, including its long-awaited 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.

Huang’s outfit worth more than entire S&P sectors

Nvidia just became the first company in history to smash through the $5 trillion mark, proving that the AI hype train shows no sign of slowing down.

Lux and Discovery to fly the flag

AMD has landed a deal with the US government to supply silicon for two heavy-duty supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 

AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.

Limited edition to celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

ASUS has announced yet another limited edition graphics card, the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Edition, designed in cooperation with AMD and Activision.

Krackan released on desktop before year’s end

AMD might finally be ready to bring its long-awaited Zen 5-based APUs to the mainstream AM5 platform, if a new AGESA BIOS leak is to be believed.

Tool aims to push chipmaking into the ‘More-than-Moore’ era

Dutch chip gear maker ASML has lifted the kimono its Twinscan XT:260, a new lithography scanner built for the brave new world of 3D chip packaging.

Twinscan EUV kit and shiny wafer robots steal the show

Wafer-maker-in-chief TSMC has released a glossy video giving the world a look inside its Fab 21 plant in Phoenix, Arizona, and it’s stuffed with chip porn for the semiconductor-curious.