Contract chipmaker fails to detail numbers of layoffs or planned timeframe in email to staff GlobalFoundries is planning job cuts to reduce overhead amid weakening demand for semiconductors.…
Lees meerWe must immunize the Mastodon Opinion There is a euphemism in rocketry often heard at SpaceX – Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. A catastrophic explosion, in other words. Until now, it was not a phrase that applies to social media.…
Lees meerHow do you mitigate the impact of the energy crisis on your IT provision? Watch our webinar to find out Webinar There seems like no respite from energy price hikes for the moment. It doesn't matter where you look in this time of global insecurity, …
Lees meerSpeech did not mention IPO, did say CEO's close involvement is good for humanity Japanese tech investment giant Softbank appears to be committed to keeping British-based chip designer Arm under its influence, after the parent company’s CEO and chair…
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Lees meerLost among the Twitter chaos? We'll try to sort it out for you, so far You could say Twitter, now in its second week of Elon Musk's reign, has had an interesting week. That would be an understatement.…
Lees meerOnly one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement From the rotting corpse that is Intel's axed Optane memory business come a pair of new 3D XPoint-based SSDs for servers and workstations. Only one of them seems like an u…
Lees meerLicensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago Chip designer Arm reported record revenues for its latest quarterly trading update as it continues to diversify the business beyond licensing.…
Lees meerHopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Carolina as part of a phased development that will see it invest at least $1 billion over the next decade.…
Lees meer2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 million) into a new semiconductor company amid plans to jump-start next generation advanced chip production with the help of IBM.…
Lees meerAlleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment Twitter CEO Elon Musk has told employees of the risk of short-term bankruptcy as corporations — hence potential advertisers — get trashed …
Lees meerCEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK government’s price cap on energy bills will allow it to provide financial assistance to employees struggling with relentless rises in in…
Lees meerYou'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frolic through readers' memories of support jobs that had odd endings.…
Lees meerBoth firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the server processor market against Intel once again, though the chip designer lost out to its much larger rival in the broader x86 market.…
Lees meerChipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local sources of neon gas for use in its fabs, following disruptions to global supply chains caused by the Russian war in Ukraine.…
Lees meerIts also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upended. The chipmaker has managed to pull out ahead of rival Intel with the launch of its fourth-generation Epyc "Genoa" processors …
Lees meerTaps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? Electric carmaker Rivian is reporting more trouble – this time it's the loss of $1.7 billion in Q3 alone, although the biz said it has enough cash on hand for three more years of business. …
Lees meerHasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat The EU is said to be nearing a deal on building a satellite internet service to fill in gaps in terrestrial broadband coverage, as well as providing "strategic indepen…
Lees meerStill quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC hybrid calculation tech IBM has officially unveiled its Osprey quantum processor featuring 433 qubits, more than three times the qu…
Lees meerCan't do anything about their musical taste though Japanese telecommunications megalith NTT released details on Wednesday of ambitious headphone tech that eliminates pesky sound leakage – even on open-ear earphones.…
Lees meerWeakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again Chief information officers in Western Europe should buckle up for enterprise tech price inflation in 2023 unless local currencies stage something of a dramatic rec…
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