Biden gives $120 million to Polar Semiconductor
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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.

Chipzilla’s Aurora crosses the exascale threshold
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Catching up to AMD

Intel’s latest and greatest Aurora supercomputer, installed at Argonne National Laboratory, has smashed through the exascale barrier. Before this, only AMD’s Frontier system had managed to pull that off.

AMD will not support Windows 10 on next-gen Ryzen 8050/9000 PCs
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Not poweful enough

Lenovo China's manager with the Weibo name 思考未来啊 has warned that the next-gen Ryzen 8050/9000 PCs will not support Windows 10.

Intel faces more ghosting from Spectre
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Call in more Ghostbusters

Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors.

Electronic Arts wants more adverts in games
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Probably time to go back playing battleship

Having not learnt anything about how media streaming companies have destroyed their business model with advertising, Electronic Arts is mulling over putting adverts inside its games.