Intel dangles 3D cache tease
Trying to copy AMD
Chipzilla might have found a way to copy AMD’s X3D cache magic, using its shiny new 18A-PT process and hybrid bonding trickery.
Chipzilla is king of packaging
Intel plays the packaging card to keep customers
Troubled Chipzilla has decided the path to foundry salvation runs straight through the packaging plant. It’s now shouting from the rooftops that its real ace in the silicon arms race isn’t process nodes but how it wraps the goods.
Google breakup could sink Firefox, Mozilla tells court
Killing the cash cow might just hand Big Tech more browser control
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street aren’t the only ones sweating over Google’s looming antitrust smackdown, the big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation think Firefox could be collateral damage.
Lasercom tipped to replace jammed, hacked satellite links
Russia, China ramping up dirty space tricks
A 316-page report from the Secure World Foundation paints a grim picture of the growing space arms race, with Russia and China doubling down on satellite jamming, spoofing, and cyber-attacks, especially in active war zones.
KDE Plasma kills off its half-baked LTS
No one liked maintaining it or knew what it meant
KDE Plasma is ditching its long-term support releases in favour of an extended patch schedule for regular updates, after conceding its current LTS system is a bit of a sham.
Chipzilla’s Battlemage “G31” leaks
New ARC GPU push
Troubled Chipzilla has apparently slipped another ARC Battlemage graphics card into the pipeline, as a new “G31” model turned up in a shipping manifest en route to Intel Vietnam.
Apple faces criminal referral over App Store contempt
Judge torches Apple for “willful” defiance, refers case to prosecutors
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been torched by a federal judge for openly ignoring a 2021 court order on App Store payments and could now be staring down the barrel of a criminal contempt probe.
Samsung to cripple Galaxy Z Flip 7 with Exynos 2500 gamble
Low yields, high hopes, and no Snapdragon 8 Elite
Samsung’s cost-cutting obsession has apparently reached new heights, as the outfit's mobile division is rumoured to be ditching Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite in favour of its own Exynos 2500 for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7.
South Korean top quantum boffin defects to China
Treat your boffins nicely or they will be headhunted
China’s semiconductor headhunting just bagged another trophy as South Korean quantum materials expert Lee Young-hee took a full-time post at the Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan.
Amazon spooked by tariffs
Looking to AI to sort things out
Bookshifter Amazon warned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street that the US tariff policy is battering its bottom line. Shares dipped 2.3 per cent in after-hours trading after the company had a weaker-than-expected forecast for the second quarter.