Intel boss tangled in deals that fatten his own portfolio
Lip-Bu Tan’s investment web puts Troubled Chipzilla in an awkward spotlight
Troubled Chipzilla’s chief Lip-Bu Tan is under fire as revelations pile up about deals that seem to bulk up his personal fortune. At the same time, he presides over a company that Washington wants to drag back to industrial prominence.
Nvidia cooks up chip-tracking tech
GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets
Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.
Adobe shoves its wares into ChatGPT
Software giant scrambles to stay visible in the chatbot stampede
Adobe is stuffing three of its big-name apps into ChatGPT as it hustles to keep pace with a swelling mob of firms hitching themselves to the chatbot.
Oracle’s spending spree rattles investors
Rising bill for AI data centres spooks market
Oracle opened its books with a thud as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street fretted about the size of its cheques for AI-driven data centre expansion.
Noctua brings 3D printing filaments with Prusa Research
In signature Noctua colors
Noctua and Prusa Research have teamed up to bring two new 3D printing filaments that will, of course, come in Noctua's signature colors, the Prusament PLA Noctua Beige and the Prusament PLA Noctua Brown.
Qualcomm snatches Ventana Micro Systems
Brings more RISC-V manpower
Qualcomm Technologies has announced the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems, a company specializing in compute chiplets based on the RISC-V open architecture.
AMD releases Software Adrenalin 25.12.1 WHQL driver
Brings support for AMD FSR4 Redstone
AMD has released its newest Software Adrenalin Edition 25.12.1 WHQL driver, adding support for AMD FSR4 Redstone as well as support for new Radeon AI PRO GPUs and several bug fixes.
ASML slammed for flogging kit to Chinese defence outfit
Old lithography gear raises eyebrows over quantum and military links
ASML is copping flak in the Netherlands after reports that the chipmaking darling quietly sold hardware to a Chinese defence firm with deep party ties.
Samsung’s Exynos 2600 looks boxed into Korea
Yield snags and Qualcomm deals keep the chip from travelling far
Samsung is still wrestling with ropey yields on its next-generation Exynos 2600, which means the silicon may only appear in South Korea and only in the non-Ultra Galaxy S26 models.
MediaTek frets over pricey 2nm chips for 2026
May juggle two Dimensity 9600 variants
MediaTek’s lone flagship Dimensity 9600 for 2026 is shaping up to be a costly beast as the Taiwanese fabless outfit wrestles with soaring 2nm wafer prices and rumours of switching to a dual-chipset strategy.