Chipzilla gives up tying CPU and GPU together

Troubled Chipzilla has officially canned its Deep Link suite, quietly shelving one of its more ambitious attempts to get CPUs and GPUs working together.

External GPUs finally come to Apple

Tiny has managed to get AMD eGPUs working on Windows, Linux, and macOS using nothing more than USB3 and a dose of black magic.

Buyers feeling sticky

Gigabyte’s RTX 50-series graphics cards are leaking more than heat, as users report thermal gel dribbling out of heatsinks.

Coughs up $95 million

Apple fanboys using Siri-enabled gear in the US between 17 September 2014 and 31 December 2024 can grab a slice of a $95 million (€88 million) payout, after the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple was caught red-handed snooping on private chats.

HarmonyOS laptops get serious

Huawei is gearing up to drop its first proper in-house silicon for desktop-class machines with the Kirin X90, and if the tipsters are right, it’s a winner.

Strong CPU and datacentre wins 

AMD has just posted the strongest first quarter in its history, pulling in $7.438 billion in revenue for Q1 2025. That’s a 36 per cent surge year-on-year, driven by robust sales of high-margin Ryzen client CPUs, booming datacentre demand for its EPYC server chips, and growing adoption of its Instinct MI300-series AI accelerators.

Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback

Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.

It’s not a price hike, just a price “clarification”

Software King of the World Microsoft has quietly booted the 256GB versions of last year’s 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 13-inch Surface Pro 11 off its store, leaving only pricier 512GB and 1TB options starting at $1,199.

Torvalds flushes ancient x86 silicon down the kernel loo

The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery, ending decades of backward compatibility that even Microsoft ditched with Windows XP back in 2001.

Stimulus and stockpiling drive gains, but hangover looms

China’s top foundry, SMIC has seen its quarterly net profit more than double to $188 million, thanks to a mix of Beijing’s largesse and geopolitical panic buying.