Nvidia and Mediatek allegedly working on new SoC for consoles
Published in Mobiles


Want a piece of that market

Nvidia and Mediatek are allegedly working on a brand new SoC for handheld and other gaming consoles, and have quite a few clients already lined up. Nvidia is no stranger to such SoCs, and it has recently teamed up with Mediatek for mobile chips that could use next-gen RTX and AI GPU IP based on the upcoming Blackwell architecture.

Intel rolls out new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver
Published in Graphics


One to have for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3

Intel has released the new Arc 101.5518 Beta GPU driver with optimizations for two new big games, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut and Homeworld 3.

Sutskever leaves OpenAI
Published in News


Off to pursue something deeply personal

OpenAI's co-founder and Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is departing the company to focus on "something deeply personal."

AMD officially launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F SKUs
Published in PC Hardware


Priced at $269 and $169

AMD has officially launched two new Ryzen 8000 series SKUs, the Ryzen 7 8700F and the Ryzen 5 8400F. Based on the earlier released 8000-series APUs, these two Ryzen F-series SKUs come with disabled integrated graphics and the same 65W TDP.

Finnish brainiacs invent futuristic quantum algorithms
Published in News


You must be nicer to the cats

A team of Finnish boffins claim to be close to creating algorithms for quantum computers so that they can solve real world problems

Intel plans huge plant in Ireland
Published in News


Not sure it will go through at all, at all

Chipzilla is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland.

Microsoft loses Cortana case
Published in News


Must pay €224.07 million to IPA Technologies

A jury in Delaware just decided that the software king of the world, Microsoft, must fork over €224.07 million to IPA Technologies over some beef over patents with its Cortana virtual assistant.

EU ready to slap Vole with more Anti-trust charges
Published in News


Teams elbow out the competition

Brussels is gearing up to slap Microsoft with some fresh antitrust charges. It reckons the big tech firm is playing dirty with its Teams app, elbowing out the competition.

IBM outsources Granite code
Published in News


AI tech goodness is given to Apache 2.0

Big Blue has been a busy bee, getting its Granite code out in the open by using stuff already out there for everyone to see, like GitHub Code Clean and other public code.

Biden gives $120 million to Polar Semiconductor
Published in News


Might even buy the company

Polar Semiconductor in Bloomington, Minnesota might trouser up to €111.6 million ($120 million) under the Chip’s Act and there is a rumour that the US might even buy the company to keep its production on this side of the pond.