MediaTek is making a major strategic pivot, moving engineering resources away from smartphones to chase custom AI chips. The company is targeting a billion-dollar ASIC business by 2026, with Google’s TPU program as its first big win. But can it keep its smartphone business competitive while chasing
The holiday period was anything but quiet for the data center industry. Major acquisitions and partnerships worth tens of billions set the stage for a frantic 2026.
In a major talent grab, Elon Musk’s xAI has poached a key AWS infrastructure leader. Saurabh Kumar spent nearly a decade shaping Amazon’s cloud networking and will now build “gigafactories” for AI at the Grok chatbot maker.
Buried under a university, the CHIEF1900 centrifuge can generate forces 1,900 times Earth’s gravity. It’s a tool scientists use to simulate centuries of stress on materials in just hours.
The Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber will hold a crucial public hearing on January 14 regarding Nexperia. This follows preliminary rulings that suspended the former CEO and transferred shares from its Chinese parent, Wingtech.
The developers behind the flashy FPS Bright Memory Infinite are moving on. Their new project is a third-person action shooter set against a backdrop of gang violence in the Republic of China.
A new report details a sharp rise in violent, physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders. The victims aren’t just wealthy influencers anymore, and many crimes go unreported out of fear.
Belkin is launching a new USB-C hub with a unique monitor privacy button. The $100 dock supports dual 4K displays and 100W charging. It’s aimed squarely at hybrid workers in shared spaces.
Venezuela sits on 303 billion barrels of oil, the largest proven reserves globally. Yet after decades of decay and sanctions, its production has collapsed from 3.5 million barrels per day in the 1970s to about 1.1 million last year. The potential for a post-Maduro recovery is huge, but so are the ob
According to a new report, Asus will not release any new smartphones in 2025. The company’s last flagship, the Zenfone 12 Ultra, launched back in February 2024, and it seems there will be no direct successor this year.
