Intel’s Panther Lake Chips Aren’t Just Good—They Beat Apple’s M5
Here’s the thing: this is a fairly large laptop. While I don’t have official specs on it yet,…
Shanghai maps global financial hub plan to 2035, for world-class and socialist metropolis
Shanghai has laid out a full spectrum of goals on finance for the next five years and beyond,…
Why Your Next Smartphone Will Be Significantly Pricier—And It’s Not Just Inflation
If you have spent any time browsing tech retailers lately, you have likely felt a familiar sting in…
Windows on Arm had another good year
In 2024, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips finally made Arm-based Windows laptops viable. Unlike previous Arm laptops that struggled…
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack
Nvidia is investing $2 billion into Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips. The deal…
Qualcomm reveals its not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite…
Nvidia CEO says the company is in a no-win situation amid AI-bubble chatter, leaked meeting reveals
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees this week that the company has been pushed into a no-win situation…
China to suspend some rare earth curbs, probes on U.S. chip firms
China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US…
Germanium flips to superconducting state for the first time ever
Scientists have successfully made germanium, a key semiconductor used in computer chips and fiber optics, superconducting for the…
Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up…