Age of bargain silicon ends The days of cheap transistors are over as TSMC jacks up prices on its most advanced wafers and signals the end of Moore’s Law’s cosy promise of faster and cheaper chips.

Hints at hardware-level boost for ray tracing and animation AMD has shown off how its Dense Geometry Format (DGF) could reshape GPU performance in animation and ray tracing, with hints that future ...

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia. According to the Financial ...

Apple blunders drag rivals into costly copycatting The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s titanium phase looks like it is about to claim casualties among its copycat rivals. After being forced back to ...

Micron’s Crucial brand has launched its latest LPCAMM2 memory for laptops, claiming speeds up to 8,533 mega transfers per second and support for capacities as high as 64 GB. Crucial insists the ...

We are not surrendering more than half of output Taiwan’s top trade negotiator says Washington is not about to walk away with 55 per cent of the island’s chip production. Executive Yuan vice president ...

Hard to see who we want to win here Elon Musk is taking a swing at Wackypedia, claiming he can do it better with his own effort called Grokipedia. The Tesla boss tweeted that his xAI outfit is ...

Europe, still no sign of it in the US Gigabyte has announced the availability of its rather interesting 27-inch QHD WOLED monitor that comes with a 280Hz refresh rate and a 4-sided borderless design, ...

Nvidia DLSS 4 support coming to several new games Nvidia has released its new GeForce 581.42 WHQL Game Ready driver, adding game optimizations for Battlefield 6 and FBC: Firebreak games, as well as ...

Yields creep up to 50 per cent  Samsung has finally pulled the trigger on mass production of the Exynos 2600, its first 2nm GAA SoC built on the SF2 process. According to The Bell, fab-out is slated ...

Troubled Chipzilla looks set to finally give AMD’s Threadripper lineup a kicking, with a new Granite Rapids-WS workstation chip spotted with 86 cores, 172 threads and a boost clock that goes to 4.8GHz ...

Trump’s son-in-law helps steer publisher into private hands Electronic Arts has decided the best time to cash in and go private is while everyone is excited about Battlefield. The publisher has ...