Windows 11 getting more AI tools than you can poke a stick at

The Software King of the World, Microsoft is flooding Windows 11 with new AI tools but only Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips can run them, with Intel and AMD hardware coming later.

B-series card coming for the H100’s memory crown

Nvidia has chucked naming convention out the window and launched the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell family at GTC 2025, ditching the B40 branding you’d expect from a successor to the A40, L40, and L40S.

At least it is an improvement from tectonic pace

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is stepping up efforts to kick Qualcomm out of the iPhone, launching its modems to own the full hardware stack and dump the US chipmaker.

AMD's chip love affair with Korea over 

AMD has pulled the plug on a once-promising deal with Samsung Foundry, ditching the Korean giant’s SF4X process in favour of TSMC’s shiny US operations in Arizona.

Looks slick, plays slow, and still can't beat its own last-gen gear

Troubled Chipzilla has taken its trousers down to show off the innards of Arrow Lake, and while the chiplet-based design is a visual treat, it’s struggling to keep up where it matters in games.

Contempt over App Store monopoly gets messy

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has appealed a ruling by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers that slapped it with contempt for ignoring a 2021 injunction over its App Store shenanigans.

Charity keeps the leash as Altman plots trillion-dollar AI dreams

OpenAI has abruptly U-turned on its plans to go full corporate, deciding instead to let its nonprofit arm keep control of the outfit’s shiny new for-profit structure.

Users fume at Roku OS 14.5

Roku’s latest update to its operating system has managed to drain the life out of HDR content on several major streaming apps, leaving users stuck watching shows that look like they’ve been filmed through a chalk filter.

Markets smell trouble ahead

Qualcomm blew past the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s expectations with a $10.9 billion revenue haul for its second fiscal quarter ending March 2025, a 17 per cent rise. Adjusted earnings per share sat at $2.85, comfortably above consensus.

AMD beats Apple and Intel to tape-out

TSMC's 2nm process node is cruising through development and is already showing better defect rates than 3nm and 7nm did at the same stage.