Workers in a Foxconn factory Foxconn, Apple's iPhone 16 manufacturer has reported a fourth consecutive quarter of profit increases, which it credits to demand for AI servers. For the previous quarter, Foxconn's increased profits came from better than expected demand for the iPhone. That is likely to continue with the forthcoming launch of the iPhone…
Spotify logo The EU's anti-steering measures mean Apple must now let developers tell users of prices available outside of the App Store, and it's a good thing — but maybe not the victory for democracy that Spotify is trying to claim. Spotify has consistently complained about what it sees as Apple failing to comply with…
A soccer ball on a pitch The English Premier League will be upgrading its existing and widely panned refereeing technology with a new system that will rely on iPhones to ensure soccer players obey the infamous offside rule. For years, the English Premier League has employed a video-assistant referee (VAR) to check whether players are…
Surfshark VPN for travel Accessing the internet comes with a lot of risk by default, especially when you're not on your home network, so use a tool like Surfshark VPN for travel to keep your data safe and private. Increased privacy and security isn't the only benefit of using a VPN service. It provides multiple…
An iPhone SE 3 Apple hasn't updated the iPhone SE in years. Here's what to expect from the fourth generation of the budget-focused smartphone. A new iPhone SE is long overdue from Apple. The third-generation iPhone SE dropped in 2022, making it more than two years since the last update. This long period since we…
Save $300 on the Apple Studio Display. Amazon has slashed the price on the Apple Studio Display to pair with its Mac deals for easy back-to-school shopping. Save big on Apple hardware at Amazon Expanding your screen real estate just got a little cheaper thanks to Amazon's latest price cut on the Apple Studio Display.…
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month,…
One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of advantage to attract customers away…
At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline - ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the…