Taiwan chip giant TSMC earned a massive $25.53 billion during the first three months of 2025. The company dominates the semiconductor world and prepares to mass produce advanced 2nm chips for Apple. MediaTek brought in $4.7 billion during the same period. Both companies perform well but TSMC clearly leads the industry. Apple will be among the first customers to use the new manufacturing process.
MediaTek workers receive bigger paychecks than TSMC employees despite working for a smaller company. Regular full-time staff at MediaTek take home about $148,997 each year. This amount beats every other tech company in Taiwan. MediaTek remains the single firm where workers earn more than $138,000 annually. Employee pay jumped up 14.81 percent...
Microsoft just fired 9,000 workers across the company. The tech giant cut four percent of its entire staff to save money. Company leaders want to spend more cash on artificial intelligence projects. They plan to pump over 80 billion dollars into AI systems this year. That amount jumps up 25 billion dollars from last year.
The layoffs hit Microsoft's gaming teams hard. The company bought major game studios like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard for huge amounts of money. Microsoft wanted more people to sign up for Game Pass subscriptions. The streaming service never attracted as many gamers as executives hoped it would. Music and movie fans love subscription services but gamers think differently about them.
Gaming industry workers are...
Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger admits he made a huge mistake with artificial intelligence. The tech giant completely missed the AI boom that made rivals like NVIDIA billions of dollars. Gelsinger confessed that everyone at Intel underestimated how big AI would become. He thought the company could focus on inference work instead of training powerful AI models. Intel spent years trying to catch up but never built anything that could compete.
The chip maker launched Gaudi AI accelerators but cloud companies ignored them. NVIDIA dominated the market with their superior products and CUDA technology. Intel kept talking about being ready for the AI wave but never delivered real results. Their server processors remained their only decent...
Qualcomm planned to make two different versions of its next big phone chip called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. The company wanted Samsung to build one version using fancy 2nm technology with the secret name Kaanapali S. Qualcomm also lined up TSMC to make another version of the same processor. The chip maker thought having two suppliers would keep costs down for phone companies. Everything changed when Qualcomm decided to cancel its deal with Samsung.
Samsung could not make enough working chips to satisfy Qualcomm's needs. The Korean company only managed to produce 50 percent good chips during testing. Samsung needed to reach 70 percent success rates to make mass production profitable. Qualcomm saw the writing on the wall and pulled out...
Huawei plans to launch the Mate 80 phone series during the final months of 2025. The company will pair these devices with a brand new Kirin 9030 processor chip. Tech insiders claim this new chip will run 20 percent faster than older models. However, nobody knows which previous chip they compared it against. The comparison could be against the Kirin 9020 or the Kirin 9010 processor.
Huawei faces major problems making advanced chips at its factories. The company works with SMIC to build processors but they struggle with modern 5nm technology. Their newest laptop chips still use outdated 7nm manufacturing methods. These production issues prevent Huawei from competing with other major phone makers. The company cannot match the speed and...
Gaming fans got major news at Anime Expo when CD PROJEKT RED teamed up with studio TRIGGER again. The duo revealed they are making Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 after saying no to more episodes back in October 2022. This new anime series will have 10 episodes and takes place in the same world as Cyberpunk 2077. Netflix will stream the show but nobody knows when it drops. The announcement completely flips what the companies said before about ending the story.
Bartosz Sztybor returns as the main writer and showrunner for the sequel series. He won a Hugo Award and worked on the first Edgerunners show. The story moves away from David and explores new characters in Night City. Sztybor promises viewers will see themes of redemption and revenge...
Apple broke its losing streak in China after two tough years of falling iPhone sales. The tech giant saw an 8 percent jump in sales between April and June compared to the same months last year. This marks the first time Apple gained ground in the Chinese market since mid-2023. The company used steep price cuts and government help to win back customers. Chinese shoppers snapped up iPhones during the big 618 shopping event.
Major online stores like JD.com and Tmall slashed iPhone 16 prices by 2,530 yuan, saving buyers about 351 dollars. Apple sweetened the deal with better trade-in offers for old phones. The government chipped in with subsidies up to 500 yuan for cheaper devices. Even Mac computers got discounts of 2,000 yuan under these...
Actress Lerato Nxumalo prepares to launch her first business venture called blaHoody. The star shares mixed feelings about her upcoming entrepreneurial journey through social media posts. She describes feeling both scared and thrilled about starting something meaningful to her heart. Faith plays a central role as she takes this major step forward. The actress trusts God will guide her through every aspect of this new adventure.
Late nights filled with prayers and dreams helped shape this business idea. Nxumalo wanted to create comfort and warmth for herself and others through her clothing line. Fear and doubt sometimes creep into her mind during this process. She relies on her strong religious beliefs to push through challenging...
Minister Gayton McKenzie finds himself defending his family after his son Calvin Le John bought SuperSport United for R50 million. The government official claims he had nothing to do with the football club purchase. Calvin dropped his father's surname years ago and wants to rename the team Siwelele FC. The new name would bring back memories of the old Bloemfontein Celtic team. McKenzie told reporters his family members used their private money for the deal.
The minister previously promised Celtic would return to professional football under the Siwelele nickname. Critics question whether his government position helped his son secure the club purchase. McKenzie jokes he might apply for a mascot job at the team after leaving politics. He...
