Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful

The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gets a warmer than expected reception from the White House

It looks like President Trump is no longer gunning for troubled Chipzilla chief executive Lip-Bu Tan’s head.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D shipments halted

AMD appears to have pulled the plug on its Ryzen 7 5700X3D, ending the run of X3D CPUs for the company’s long-lived AM4 platform.

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell heads for mainstream 2U systems

Nvidia is stuffing its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs into the world’s most popular enterprise server designs, claiming it will help companies ditch slow CPU-only boxes for faster, more efficient accelerated computing.

After 34 years, the screech of the modem is no more

AOL has decided to kill off its dial-up internet service at the end of September, bringing the curtain down on a relic of the early web.

Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward

State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.

AI era shifts priorities at the code-sharing giant

GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has told staff he is fleeing the Volehill to chase entrepreneurial ambitions, leaving the Open Saucy outfit completely merged with Microsoft.

It is unclear if it is actually legal

Nvidia's CEO's Jensen Huang half-trillion-dollar "carrot" to Donald Trump appeared to get the president to turn a blind eye to his exporting chips to China, proving where diplomacy fails a good kick-back will always succeed.

Navi 33 silicon gets another spin for gamers and workstations

AMD has added two new cards to its line-up, the Radeon RX 7400 for gamers who like to keep their wallets intact, and the Radeon Pro W7400 for the workstation crowd.

Former CEO Craig Barrett urges customers to bankroll Intel’s survival

Former Chipzilla chief Craig Barrett [pictured] has warned that Intel needs a $40 billion cash injection to stay at the sharp end of chip manufacturing and he is not expecting Washington to stump up the money.