Like the internet, excess energy will move through a series of tubes Microsoft and Finland's largest energy company have partnered to build a new datacenter near Helsinki that will heat homes as it cools servers.…
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Lees meerAgency signals more actions targeting Chinese companies to come in the name of national security Chinese telco Pacific Networks and its subsidiary ComNet must cease all services within the United States within 60 days from Wednesday March 16 followi…
Lees meerUS biz's license to operate in London up for renewal this month Gig workers have urged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to force Uber to pay drivers at least minimum wage as the ride-hailing biz seeks to renew its license to operate in the British capital.…
Lees meer$10,000 and Efabless may be what you're looking for Interview The likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft can design custom chips and have them manufactured using their billions of dollars in the bank.…
Lees meerIf you want your own custom SmartNIC, knock yourself out, says x86 giant Intel is discontinuing its original lineup of Programmable Acceleration Cards as it turns to an "ecosystem first" strategy that focuses on letting customers create their own FP…
Lees meerIntel's taken big GPU talent from the chipmaker, so maybe it was AMD's turn Intel has hired a lot of top graphics talent from rival AMD to build out its discrete GPU business, but apparently it's now AMD's turn to take from the semiconductor giant.…
Lees meerHere’s another reason to do hyperscale thing of offloading network functions to an accelerator Software-defined networking contender Pluribus has ported its Netvisor ONE OS network operating system to Nvidia's BlueField-2 data processing units, a ne…
Lees meerIntel to slip into top 10 list with Tower takeover Contract chip manufacturers grew revenue in the fourth quarter of last calendar year largely by raising the prices of wafers in the face of overloaded factories as the semiconductor industry continu…
Lees meerWork Trend Index report indicates that things are about to get a little 'messy' Microsoft's second annual Work Trend Index report is out, and it highlights a massive disconnect between leaders, managers and employees.…
Lees meerCEO tells The Reg his engineers still have sights on phones to servers SiFive is pulling in nearly $400m in funding this year between a new investment round and the proceeds of a business sale with the ambitious mission of eclipsing rival Arm – and …
Lees meerA $4 microcontroller, you say? Will it run you-know-what? It is with a sense of inevitability that we can confirm somebody has managed to make Doom work on the diminutive RP2040-based Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board.…
Lees meerA bolt of lightning has caused me days of misery, because the fix requires too much proprietary tech Column I heard an electric discharge, a bit like a Jacob's ladder, immediately before a deafening crack of thunder. I'd never been so close to a li…
Lees meerVote held after red-tape targeting proof-of-work assets removed Europe's lawmakers this week moved ahead with their proposed cryptocurrency regulations, having ditched a rule that might have banned financial services from dealing in Bitcoin and Ethe…
Lees meerSub-$299 Zen 3 desktop chips throw wrench into Intel wheelhouse AMD is doling out a handful of new Ryzen desktop processors, including the first to use the chip designer's 3D die stacking technology.…
Lees meerAnalyst view: 4Q21 drop plus strains from war mean component shortages drag on The telecoms kit market had a good 2021 with revenues close to $100bn, up more than 20 percent since 2017, but growth is now slowing, according to analyst Dell'Oro Group.…
Lees meerNot every hole is x86, CUDA, or Arm shaped Venture capitalists funneled billions into semiconductor startups in 2021, we're told, targeting designers of machine-learning technologies that fulfill specific or niche needs.…
Lees meerMove along, nothing to see here, totally not slimming down ahead of IPO – or a second IPO in China Chip designer and licensor to the stars, Arm, has reportedly dropped around 1,000 workers onto unemployment queues.…
Lees meerWe want to concentrate on legging it after Arm, says biz Up-and-coming SiFive is selling its OpenFive business, including its portfolio of blueprints for chip connectivity, to fellow silicon designer Alphawave.…
Lees meerWhy pay more when you can get less? Good news for those kept out of the seat of a new Ford Explorer by the chip shortage: You can get one now, with a slight catch. …
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