Intel's Lip-Bu Tan visits Saudis for AI and silicon cash
He made it home in one piece
Intel’s latest move to patch its leaky finances involves cosying up to Saudi Arabia, with chief executive Lip-Bu Tan holding talks with the Kingdom’s IT ministry over a potential tie-up in semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
Beware the vinegar smelling thermal paste
SGT-4 paste corrodes metal and glues your chip to the cooler
A thermal paste made by a South Korean outfit is earning notoriety for destroying CPU coolers, corroding copper and stinking up the place with a whiff of vinegar.
TSMC shows off its Arizona fab in rare factory video
Twinscan EUV kit and shiny wafer robots steal the show
Wafer-maker-in-chief TSMC has released a glossy video giving the world a look inside its Fab 21 plant in Phoenix, Arizona, and it’s stuffed with chip porn for the semiconductor-curious.
Nexperia mess fuelled by $200 million CEO heist
Dutch chipmaker seized after boss allegedly funnelled cash to failing side hustle
The Dutch government’s dramatic seizure of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia wasn’t just about keeping technology out of Beijing’s paws. It turns out the whole fiasco was sparked by the company’s own CEO funnelling more than $200 million into a failing pet project in Shanghai.
Rainbow laser chip could help stop AI from eating power
Photonics breakthrough came from a lucky lab mistake
A lab mishap has accidentally given birth to a laser-spewing chip that could rein in the power-hungry chaos of AI and its insatiable data cravings.
Samsung talks up HBM4E
Look at my huge bandwidth and sharp pricing
Samsung is waving fresh HBM4 and HBM4E roadmaps and inking chunky memory deals with Nvidia and AMD.
UK’s £45bn AI savings claim torn to shreds in parliament
MPs hear the maths relies on automation fairy dust
The British government’s £45 billion (€52.7 billion) AI “savings” pitch ran into a buzzsaw on 15 October 2025 as witnesses told MPs the numbers look fanciful without real cuts.
Windows 11 update breaks localhost for developers
Kernel web stack faceplants, registry hacks and rollbacks ensue
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 patch tripped over its own shoelaces and knocked out localhost, leaving devs unable to reach web apps running on their own machines.
Meta straps a smart TV to your face
Zuck’s Horizon TV chases couch potatoes in VR
Meta has built the telly Mark Zuckerberg once teased, only this one lives inside a headset and is dubbed Horizon TV.
Apple’s M5 pitch leans hard on its AI
Job’s Mob hypes specs
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has rolled out new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Apple Vision Pro models and stuffed them with a shiny M5, which it claims is finally ready for the AI era.