The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers
Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on delivering enterprise AI deployments using Microsoft’s…

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable
Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable

Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced on Thursday. T he I-2SEA system will run 3,600 kilometres and is intended to support t…

Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection

Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees […]

The charm of a tiny Windows tablet is apparently at Microsoft. Long live the Surface Go!

Microsoft has reportedly stopped manufacturing Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go devices, leaving Surface Pro and Surface Laptop as the company’s remaining Surface PC lines

Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs
Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs

Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in another round of layoffs, according to a Business Insider report picked up on Tuesday. The reductions could be announced as soon as next week, and they would affect thousands of roles across …

Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane
Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane

Microsoft is set to announce a wave of layoffs for its Xbox studios and employees next week. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the layoffs will lead to studio closures or spinoffs, potential mergers of studios, and canceled games. I understand Microsoft is currently weighing closing at least five studios, including the […]

What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet
What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn’t stopped Donald Trump’s science adviser from promising a “quantum computer powerful enough for scientific discovery by 2028” and Trump from issuing a new […]