Starlink surges past 4 million subscribers as Musk's satellite empire grows
Starlink will help pay for Starship
Canon ships first nanoimprint lithography machinery to US consortium backed by leading chipmakers
The technique cuts costs and electricity usage in chip production
Intel holds firm against takeover bids, rejects Arm's acquisition proposal
Arm was bidding for the chip division only, but the deal made little sense to Team Blue
OpenAI's Sam Altman dismissed as "podcasting bro" by TSMC over $7 trillion proposal
Altman has been on an AI world tour over the past year
Trillion-transistor, multi-die chips inch closer with Synopsys and TSMC's latest updates
The goal is to bring multi-chiplet packages exceeding one trillion transistors to the market by 2030
Charging stations don't just power electric cars, they also boost nearby businesses
A study has found that people are more likely to indulge in consumerism as their cars juice up
Automattic and WP Engine go to war, the latter gets banned from using WordPress.org resources
The "bastardized simulacra" (Mullenweg words) of WordPress can no longer access WordPress.org servers
Startup raises $8.5M to build glass substrate chips, counts NATO as an investor
Ephos touts geopolitical advantage with US/EU-based supply chain
Intel (hopefully) concludes Raptor Lake instability saga with a final microcode update
The company has also identified the root cause -- for the second time
AMD could launch Ryzen 7 9800X3D early to steal Arrow Lake's thunder
The chip could land as early as late October
Intel unveils Clearwater Forest chips based on its 18A node - the one that could make or break Team Blue
Intel is counting on the success of these chips and mass producing on the 18A node
Intel releases X86S instruction set version 1.2, killing multiple 16-bit and 32-bit features
X86S gives Intel's x86 a much-needed slim down for the 64-bit age
Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs
Big if True: Huawei officially launched the first version of HarmonyOS in 2019, debuting it alongside the company's Honor Smart TVs. Now, the Chinese conglomerate is reportedly ready to take its ambitious project for a fully independent operating system to the next level.
PC monitor sales see surprising rebound as industry transitions from 60Hz to 100Hz
Inventory restocking and rising panel costs also spurred orders
Actors' union strikes against League of Legends in voiceover dispute
While SAG-AFTRA launches strike, Riot Games denies involvement
Intel has lost all of its dedicated GPU market share
Overall shipments rose 48 percent year-over-year with Nvidia improving by 61 percent
Terminator director James Cameron joins Stability AI despite past warnings on artificial intelligence
John Connor would not be happy
WordPress co-founder calls WP Engine a "cancer," claiming they're profiting off "confusion"
Matt Mullenweg also urges customers to switch to other hosting providers
New "fair source" movement aims to bridge the gap between open source and proprietary licensing
Open source software isn't profitable enough and "proprietary" has negative associations
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says superintelligence could arrive in "a few thousand days"
A new AI age "will not be an entirely positive story"
Remember AMI BIOS? Turns out there's a buried treasure in firmware
You might also remember them from their "American Megatrends" BIOS days
The big picture: Firmware is one of those obscure areas of computing that is simultaneously critical yet largely ignored. Not coincidentally, we have been doing a lot of work lately digging around such dark corners of the industry. Despite the ubiquitous nature of firmware, almost no one talks about it much.
Intel explores $5 billion investment offer from Apollo amid market decline
Just after Qualcomm's takeover offer
Data centers are wasting energy by running processors at full speed
A simple server setting could slash data center power consumption
Qualcomm has approached Intel with an acquisition offer
A lot has to happen before any deal materializes
What just happened? It is no secret that Intel is struggling. The tech giant's stock price has plummeted in recent years, making it a viable takeover target. An offer from Qualcomm is now on the table, and if it materializes, it could significantly alter the semiconductor industry's trajectory. But first, the companies will have to pick their way through a minefield of financial, regulatory, and strategic considerations.
Oracle-backed Ampere explores sale amid shifting semiconductor landscape
It looks as though an IPO is off the table -- for the moment