Apple backtracks as TSMC tells it pay up or else
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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
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05 October 2022

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
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04 October 2022

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
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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
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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.