PC market claws back thanks to Windows 10’s demise
Os deadline and tariff tinkering push PC shipments up 8.1 per cent
Global PC shipments are finally showing signs of life, rising 8.1 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2025, according to Counterpoint Research.
Bond confirms model will be shaken not stirred
Software King of the World Microsoft's Xbox president and chief executive Sarah Bond has confirmed Vole is working on its next-generation console and wants everyone to know it will not be cheap and cheerful.
Intel jacks up the price of Raptor Lake
Lunar Lake fails to take off
Troubled Chipzilla's next-generation Lunar Lake processors are sitting unloved on shelves while everyone scrambles to buy the older, cheaper Raptor Lake chips.
SanDisk memory card survived wreck of the Titan
Investigators uncover a working memory card two years after doomed dive
Recovery teams sifting through the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan submersible have made an extraordinary discovery.
Scheduler squeezes more work from fewer H20 accelerators
Alibaba Cloud boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having found a way to make Nvidia’s costly GPUs actually earn their keep.
Apple throws tantrum over EU big tech rules
Laws for everyone else shouldn’t apply to its sacred walled garden
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has stomped into a Luxembourg courtroom, throwing its toys out of the pram claiming that Europe’s Digital Markets Act is too mean for a company of its delicate constitution.
Nexperia’s China arm tells staff to ignore Dutch bosses
Beijing’s patience snaps
Nexperia’s Chinese operation has effectively gone rogue, telling its workers they can bin any orders from its Dutch headquarters as the row between Beijing and The Hague blows up into open defiance.
Blackrock sinks billions into Meta’s Louisiana AI project
AI gold rush burns through even more cash
BlackRock has thrown billions into Meta’s latest AI adventure, backing a massive private-debt deal that could fund a mega data centre.
AMD Zen 5 APUs may finally land on AM5 desktops
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.
Nvidia scrambled to keep OpenAI from running to Google
Jensen Huang made the $100 billion deal a top priority
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang apparently panicked when rumours spread that OpenAI might start using Google’s custom silicon for its massive AI workloads.