India retreats from Apple's mighty briefs
New Delhi shelves its app mandate
India has bolted in fright from Apple's response to its demands that it cram a government app onto every handset.
Micron kills off Crucial because AI giants pay far more
DIY RAM buyers lose out as hyperscalers hoover up every wafer in sight
Micron has decided that flogging low-margin RAM to ordinary punters is no longer worth the candle and will axe its Crucial consumer brand in 2026 after 29 years.
Meta nicks top Apple designer for its AI wearables push
Creative people flee Apple
Meta has headhunted one of the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s top design bods, leaving Job’s Mob noticeably short as the social media giant ramps up efforts to flog wearable devices powered by artificial intelligence.
Nvidia’s over inflated margins invite rivals to crash the AI chip party
Sky-high prices give AMD and Google an easy opening
Nvidia’s swollen margins are starting to look like a welcome mat for rivals itching to barge into the AI chip business.
PC makers bleed cash as AI giants hoard memory supplies
Shrinking margins force next year’s machines towards painful price hikes.
Global tech titans are gorging on DRAM and flash to feed their AI obsessions, leaving the humble PC market to scrap for leftovers as unit prices rocket.
Samsung teases its Exynos 2600 as a 2nm comeback kid
Korean giant hints it has finally heard the complaints.
Samsung has splashed out a glossy trailer to prove it really is cooking up the world’s first 2nm GAA chipset, the Exynos 2600, after months of leaks, whispers and leakers swearing blind it was the real deal.
AMD and HPE invoke ‘Helios’ to elbow into the AI rack wars
Here comes the sun
AMD has lobbed another shot at the AI infrastructure land grab by tightening its partnership with HPE to build out the next wave of open rack-scale systems, named after a Greek sun god.
AWS grabs Nvidia gear to muscle into the big AI leagues
Amazon arms its cloud with chip tech while rivals circle.
Amazon’s AWS outfit is strapping Nvidia’s prized NVLink Fusion into a future Trainium4 chip as it tries to lure heavyweight AI customers onto its cloud turf.
Apple kicks up dust over India’s spyware-friendly phone rule
Cupertino insists it is above everyone else’s regulations.
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is refusing to play ball with New Delhi’s latest phone mandate, behaving as if the country's rules do not apply to its holy hardware.
Anthropic eyes mega IPO
Listing chatter grows while investors puff up valuations.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Anthropic has started sketching one of the largest stock market debuts ever.