The Big Tech Show Apple plan budget laptop and Trump says China won’t get Nvidia top chips
Nov 6, 2025
Saoirse Hanley, a money journalist at the Irish Independent, dives into the tech world, revealing exciting insights on Amazon's new subsea cable, which promises to strengthen Ireland's internet infrastructure. She discusses Apple's plans for a budget laptop aimed at students, highlighting its affordability and specs. The conversation also touches on Trump's insistence that Nvidia’s advanced chips remain in the US, sparking a debate on technological sovereignty and geopolitical impacts.
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Fastnet Adds Resilience To Transatlantic Internet
- AWS's new Fastnet cable will add a high-capacity alternative transatlantic route landing in West Cork.
- Diversifying cable landings reduces single-point failures and improves internet resilience.
Local Concerns Over Community Benefit Promises
- Saoirse, a Cork native, describes Castlefreke/Rosscarbery as a small rural landing site and questions scale of promised community funds.
- She worries a long list of programmes may be hard to implement in a tiny village.
Small Failures Can Cause Wide Domino Effects
- Outages reveal hidden dependencies: small cable faults can cascade into major service disruptions.
- Building alternate routes and infrastructure reduces domino-effect failures.