Apple backtracks as TSMC tells it pay up or else
Karma
After a few decades of telling suppliers how much it will pay, and punishing them if they did not obey, the fruity cargo cult Apple has been forced by TSMC to pay a chip price it did not set.
YMTC boss steps down
Another mysterious exit
CEO of Chinese RAM and SSD maker YMTC Simon Yang appears to have stepped down from his position, following other senior Chinese chipmaking execs.
Zen 5 spotted
Even if Ryzen 7000 only been out a week
AMD’s Zen 5 processors have already been seen by a lucky few developers even if ithe company's Ryzen 7000 CPUs have only been in the shops for a week.
USB C branding becomes simplier
Data transfer speeds on show
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry body managing the USB standard, has come up with much simpler branding for USB-C cables and connectors.
Tesla's new supercomputer caused power cut in Palo Alto
Might have a few energy problems
Tesla's new Dojo supercomputer tripped the power grid in Palo Alto even when it was only operating its first chip and training tiles.