Qualcomm has announced its new Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 mobile platforms, expanding its mid-range and entry-level smartphone lineup with improved gaming performance, smoother ...

IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna says AI payoffs need companies to rip up old workflows, not just sprinkle bots around. Krishna said that the use of AI inside a company usually moves from individual ...

Investment bank UBS reckons agentic AI will send CPU demand soaring, with Arm and AMD best placed to grab the spoils. UBS analysts believe the growth of agentic AI software will drive strong demand ...

Qualcomm’s next flagship is leaking like a busted radiator. A fresh rumour drops two model numbers, SM8975 and SM8950, said to be the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. If the ...

Intel is paying through the nose to take back control of its Irish chip plant. Intel will spend more than $14bn to regain full ownership of its Fab 34 semiconductor factory in Ireland from Apollo, ...

VideoLAN showcased its new VLC 4 build at the CES 2026 show in Las Vegas, which was running AV2 video playback on a regular laptop. With the VLC 4.0 still in development, VideoLAN plans to integrate ...

NXP Semiconductors has wheeled out its S32N7 super-integration processor series, built on the same 5 nm foundation as the S32N55, and it is gunning for the car’s guts. The big idea is to digitalise ...

Former and current TSMC engineers have been hauled through hearings and are now facing legal action for an alleged tech theft tied to the N2 process. UDN says the engineers were found to be in ...

A fresh LLVM patch for gfx1310, AMD’s RDNA 5 graphics architecture, points to “Dual Issue” being pushed harder to allow two ops to land in one clock cycle. The big idea is to broaden the instruction ...

Scality wants everyone to stop drooling over GPUs and look at the boring bits that break in production. The cyber-resilient storage outfit announced findings from independent research by Freeform ...

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has a supply headache brewing, and it is entirely of its own making. The MacBook Neo, which relies on “binned” A18 Pro chips with one GPU core disabled, is proving more ...

Supermicro stock fell 33 per cent on Friday after prosecutors charged three people with smuggling $2.5bn of Nvidia AI server gear to China. The Southern District of New York US attorney’s office said ...