China’s effort to build its own chipmaking machines finally has a coordinator. It is Huawei. And the flagship machine it is coordinating still runs on German lenses. Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu reported the arrangement for the Financial Times, citing …
A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. …
Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday….
Google changed how search works in Europe on Tuesday. Then it told everyone the new version is worse. Foo Yun Chee reported the rollout for Reuters, which had the story first. The company is complying with an order from the European Commission, and it …
Memory prices are finally slowing down, and the reason is not that supply improved. It is that buyers ran out of money. TrendForce expects conventional DRAM contract prices to rise 13% to 18% quarter on quarter in Q3. Dan Robinson reported the forecast…
King Charles is convening about 30 senior figures from the AI industry at a Scottish country house this month. He does not intend to tell them what he thinks. Joseph Bambridge reported the plans for Politico. Two people familiar with them spoke on cond…
Emmanuel Macron has asked the European Commission to ban children under 15 from social media across the bloc, three weeks after France’s highest constitutional authority struck down his government’s attempt to do the same thing nationally. The request …
The European Commission has a plan to loosen China’s grip on the supply chains that feed European industry, and before it proposes the plan formally, it wants to find out how much of it companies are prepared to pay for. Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčov…
Slovenia has approved Tesla’s FSD Supervised, becoming the sixth European Union member state to let the driver-assistance system onto its roads. The timing is the point: an EU-wide vote that could open all 27 markets at once is expected in under a mont…
Dacia has revealed a second-generation Spring built at Renault’s Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, and the entire range is priced below €20,000 before government subsidies. The first-generation car, which sold more than 210,000 units across forty countries…