TSMC flashes 1.4nm tech
Big speed gains but no SPR for now
TSMC has rolled out its new A14 node, marking its first foray into the 1.4 nm-class manufacturing tech, and it’s already boasting serious gains in performance, power efficiency, and logic density.
SK Hynix doubles profit on AI chip boom
Brushes off tariff fears
SK Hynix, Nvidia’s go-to for high-bandwidth memory, has posted a 158 per cent leap in quarterly operating profit, hitting 7.4 trillion won (€5.1 billion), while shrugging off the usual US trade panic.
Vodafone tries to fix tunnel dead zones
Conical 5G antennas installed
Vodafone Germany has decided that it's had enough of dropped calls in tunnels and is now deploying conical multi-band mobile antennas to beef up 5G coverage in the country’s underground rat runs.
PC and smartphone growth hits the skids
UBS and Gartner slash forecasts
Beancounters at UBS and Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reduced their PC and smartphone market forecasts, citing “mounting pressures from trade tariffs and broader macroeconomic uncertainties” that will hammer consumer demand through 2026.
EU slaps Apple and Meta with landmark DMA fines
Trump screams extortion
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has been handed a €500 million ($570 million) slap by EU regulators, with Facebook flogger Meta coughing up €200 million, in the first real show of teeth under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
Quantum messaging works over 254km
Didn’t need to freeze the quantum cats
A team of German boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs having sent the first-ever coherent quantum communications across 254 km of bog-standard telecoms fibre.
Chipzilla boosts Arrow Lake
Promises “free” gaming gains with 200S Boost profile
Troubled Chipzilla is shouting about Arrow Lake improvements, this time hawking a “free” update it claims will perk up gaming frame rates—if you're running the right kit and pray to the overclocking gods.
No wonder reviews are so rare
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Ti has launched in two versions, with 16GB and 8GB memory, and it appears that the 8GB version is as bad as everyone thought, with a significant performance gap between 16GB and 8GB in some titles.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT launch brought forward to May 18th
Radeon RX 9070 GRE pushed back to Q4
According to a fresh leak, it appears that AMD is bringing the launch of its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics forward to May 18th. The same source also suggests that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE is also pushed back to Q4.
Samsung cuts corners on S25 FE
Lazy chip recycle
Samsung’s obsession with flogging dead horses continues with the Galaxy S25 FE limping out with the same Exynos 2400e processor found in last year’s S24 FE.