Apple toys with a bargain MacBook with an old iPhone brain
Recycled silicon reality
A cheaper MacBook could soon shove aside the MacBook Air. However, the fruity cargo cult Apple seems undecided about whether it deserves modern silicon or the brain of an ancient iPhone 13 it might have lying around.
SK hynix stuffs 256GB into DDR5
Intel approves for Xeon 6
SK hynix has muscled its way to the front of the server memory pack by becoming the first to certify 256GB DDR5 RDIMMs on Troubled Chipzilla’s Xeon 6 platform.
Samsung’s Exynos 2600 leaks spill the beans early
Ten cores, 2nm bravado and an unexpected AMD twist
Samsung’s first tease of the Exynos 2600 told us basically nothing, but the dark satanic rumour mill has predictably done the job for them.
Meta looks like it is binning its ‘open’ headset dream
Horizon OS partners left staring at the wall
Meta has slammed the brakes on its third-party VR headset scheme, effectively killing Horizon OS devices from Asus and Lenovo.
Sweden tops Europe’s AI readiness league
Scandinavia tightens its grip on artificial intelligence adoption
Sweden has been named Europe’s most AI-ready country, scoring a perfect 100 after investing more than €3.2 billion in related technologies and building a solid digital backbone.
Oracle’s AI binge rattles markets as Blue Owl flies off
Debt fears grow while Wall Street whispers about a popping bubble
Blue Owl Capital has walked away from talks to bankroll a $10 billion data centre for Oracle in Saline Township, Michigan, a flagship project meant to feed OpenAI.
ZLUDA edges closer to cracking Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
ROCm 7 support
ZLUDA is back again, still trying to do the unthinkable and make CUDA code run properly on non-Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia chokes RTX 50 supply as memory crunch bites
No price hike yet, just fewer cards and frustration
Nvidia is preparing to slash RTX 50 series GPU production as it stares down a long-term memory shortage and decides scarcity is the least ugly option.
Intel bins its open-source Gaudi user-space code
Another self-inflicted wound for Intel’s AI accelerator ambitions
Troubled Chipzilla has abandoned the open-source user-space code needed to make Gaudi accelerators useful on Linux.
AI designs a Linux box in a week, and it boots first time
Silicon donkey work is handed to the machines
LA-based startup Quilter says its Project Speedrun used AI to create a dual-PCB Linux single-board computer with 843 components in a week, then booted Debian on the first power-up.