TSMC flashes 1.4nm tech
Big speed gains but no SPR for now
TSMC has rolled out its new A14 node, marking its first foray into the 1.4 nm-class manufacturing tech, and it’s already boasting serious gains in performance, power efficiency, and logic density.
SK Hynix doubles profit on AI chip boom
Brushes off tariff fears
SK Hynix, Nvidia’s go-to for high-bandwidth memory, has posted a 158 per cent leap in quarterly operating profit, hitting 7.4 trillion won (€5.1 billion), while shrugging off the usual US trade panic.
Vodafone tries to fix tunnel dead zones
Conical 5G antennas installed
Vodafone Germany has decided that it's had enough of dropped calls in tunnels and is now deploying conical multi-band mobile antennas to beef up 5G coverage in the country’s underground rat runs.
PC and smartphone growth hits the skids
UBS and Gartner slash forecasts
Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.
EU slaps Apple and Meta with landmark DMA fines
Trump screams extortion
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.