Trumps FCC Chairman is looking for other shows to punish. Nokia hopes an Intel executive can turn their fortunes around. NVIDIA invests in Intel, and Intel looks to be cancelling an upcoming GPU. Microsoft raises prices on XBOX again. Samsung will put ads on your really expensive fridge. Vivo shares some fun slow motion footage from the X300. TSMC chip prices are even higher than last year.
And we have to chat about MediaTek’s new premium SOC, the Dimensity 9500!
Let’s get our tech week started right!
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- NVIDIA invests in Intel https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/nvidia-buys-5-billion-stake-in-intel-planning-ai-chip-collaboration/
- Intel Cancels GPU? https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Arc-Celestial-dGPU-seems-to-be-first-casualty-of-Nvidia-partnership-while-Intel-Arc-B770-is-allegedly-still-alive.1118962.0.html
- XBOX price hike https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/may-2025-pricing-updates
- Samsung Fridge Ads https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/samsung-forces-ads-onto-fridges-is-a-bad-sign-for-other-appliances/
- Vivo Slow Mo https://www.gsmarena.com/vivo_shares_4k_120fps_videos_from_the_vivo_x300_pro-news-69547.php
- TSMC Price Hikes https://www.notebookcheck.net/TSMC-hits-Qualcomm-and-MediaTek-with-up-to-24-price-increase-for-N3P-node-according-to-new-report.1120679.0.html
- Juan rambles on about the new Dimensity or whatever the chat wants to discuss…
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