Chips & Infrastructure

Steam Deck sales plunge after May price hike, data shows

Ars Technica reports Steam Deck demand fell sharply after Valve raised prices in May; Boiling [...]

Intel posts fastest growth in 15 years as AI and data-centre demand surges

Intel reported its fastest growth in 15 years, driven by strong demand for AI-related products [...]

Microsoft says Teams outage disrupting meetings across Asia‑Pacific now mitigated

Microsoft investigated a Microsoft Teams outage on 24 July 2026 that blocked users in the [...]

Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and Azure services

A July 23 Microsoft outage affected Outlook, Teams, Xbox and Azure/Copilot services. The incident highlights [...]

Super El Niño Forecast Raises Operational Risks for Data Centres in Winter 2026/27

Long-range forecasts point to a potentially record Super El Niño for winter 2026/27. Cloud and [...]

Trump expands ratepayer protection pledge for AI data centers

The White House widened a voluntary pledge signed by governors, utilities and cloud firms to [...]

Starship Flight 13 set for July 24 test; Starlink V3 payload raises stakes

SpaceX rescheduled the critical Starship Flight 13 for July 24. Carrying Starlink V3 satellites, the [...]

Intel rides AI demand to its fastest revenue growth in 15 years

Intel posted 25% revenue growth in Q2 2026 as AI-driven demand for data-center CPUs and [...]

Microsoft outage knocks out Teams, Outlook and Copilot services

A widespread Microsoft outage on July 23 disrupted Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Copilot and Xbox [...]

AMD’s Helios Rack Aims at Nvidia with Major Customers Including Microsoft

AMD will begin shipping Helios, a rack-scale AI system, later this year to Microsoft and [...]