Irish eyes may not be smiling Interview Last week, privacy advocate (and very occasional Reg columnist) Alexander Hanff filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) decrying YouTube's deployment of JavaScript code to detect the…
Lees meer10th arena that chip giant has quit in 2.5 years for $1.8B in annual savings Intel is shedding its silicon photonics transceiver module business as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures, offloading it to manufacturing company Jabil.…
Lees meerFunds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband.…
Lees meerSpitting in the cloud's eye Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud.…
Lees meerOh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense.…
Lees meerEmulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.…
Lees meer50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip…
Lees meerMacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and…
Lees meerPublic Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... A gaggle of MPs are calling for the UK government to put together a timetable for the replacement of millions upon millions of smart meters t…
Lees meerAs Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government's Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable.…
Lees meerAs Uncle Sam releases more internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government's Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable.…
Lees meerAt $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100 accelerators, which it plans to begin leasing to enterprises,…
Lees meerStill, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense's update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean that some of the cash infusion cou…
Lees meerPublic Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... A gaggle of MPs are calling for the UK government to put together a timetable for the replacement of millions upon millions of smart meters t…
Lees meerLatest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Western Digital is to split into two separate entities, one formed from the NAND flash memory division and the other from the hard drive unit. Th…
Lees meerUser freedoms caught between network operators and big tech Ofcom says it is trying to strike a balance between user freedom while allowing operators to protect their networks and still offer "premium" services at a higher price, according to update…
Lees meerThat's what happens when you completely misread the market Opinion These are uncomfortable times for Intel and its investors. All the cool kids are talking about AI chips, an area where Intel has no real story to tell. Low power, embedded, and mobi…
Lees meerHistory suggests Arm’s place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant' Opinion Pat Gelsinger may not be worried about Arm-compatible PCs eating into Intel's profit margins, but, if recent history tells us anything, he probably should be…
Lees meerIrish eyes may not be smiling Interview Last week, privacy advocate (and very occasional Reg columnist) Alexander Hanff filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) decrying YouTube's deployment of JavaScript code to detect the…
Lees meerI'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ban again after the International Trade Commission determined the wearable violated patents held by Masimo for measuring blood oxy…
Lees meerOh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get hold of him, it seems Don't want to start being bombarded by video calls from Xitter? Then you'd better disable this new "feature" added to the platform…
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