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.

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.

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.

Three-year deal aims to squeeze real value from pricey models

Anthropic has signed a three-year pact with Accenture to push artificial intelligence services at businesses that are still wondering when the cash will start rolling in.

Survey shows chief executives giddy about productivity gains

Corporate bosses are chirping about artificial intelligence’s economic punch, yet admit it will bruise the jobs market, according to a new survey.

EU watchdog eyes whether the search giant juiced its models with other people’s graft

Brussels has fired up a fresh antitrust probe into Google after worries that the outfit has been gobbling up uploaded content from places such as YouTube to bulk out its artificial intelligence tools.

Tight controls as Washington waves exports through

Beijing is poised to clip access to Nvidia’s shiny H200 kit even after Donald Trump shouted that China could have some if Nvidia gave him a 25 per cent cut.

Taiwan giant turns to local partners as packaging crunch bites

TSMC is stuffed to the rafters with CoWoS orders, and the AI industry is sweating over it, although the company seems to have a cunning plan.

Gaming slab gets a party trick as its screen rolls out sideways

Lenovo is gearing up to unleash a Legion-branded rollable laptop that stretches sideways into a portable ultrawide gaming panel and is pencilled in for an early 2026 launch, probably at CES.

Tiling makeover could open the door to rival GPUs

Nvidia has rolled out one of the biggest updates to its CUDA software stack in years, and chip design legend Jim Keller reckons it might even spell the end of its long-guarded exclusivity.