
AMD unloads 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX
Zen 5 monster aims straight at Chipzilla's Xeons
AMD took to Computex to unveil its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series, and it's going for the throat. The show's star is the Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a hulking 96-core, 192-thread silicon slab aimed squarely at the workstation elite.

Apple blocking Microsoft's Xbox store attempts
Vole backs Epic in its scrap with the Fruity Cargo Cult
The software king of the world Microsoft has complained to a court that the fruity cargo cult Apple has been doing its best to stop it launching an Xbox-branded mobile game store.

Chipzilla slaps two GPUs on one card, hopes someone notices
Troubled Chipzilla and board partner Maxsun showed off a curious slab of silicon at Computex 2025, unveiling the Arc Pro B60 Dual GPU 48GB card.

Export controls are fuelling China’s AI boom
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has laid into the US government’s AI chip export bans, branding them “a failure” that’s doing the opposite of what Washington claims it wants.

OpenAI teams up with Sir Jony Ive
Former Apple designer likely to cook up an expensive mystery box
OpenAI has confirmed it’s entering the hardware game, teaming up with former Job’s Mob design messiah Jony Ive to birth a new line of AI gadgets, though no one’s quite sure what they’ll do yet.