A timeline of the x86 giant's stumbles – and commitments for the future Analysis Intel is cranking up its research spending to fix past mistakes, catch up with and overtake the competition, and build a foundation to grow in future.…
Lees meerSemiconductor shortage helps cause reshuffle at the top The semiconductor shortage helped smartphone and memory chips in 2021, and Samsung toppled Intel to become the world's largest chip company, according to Counterpoint Research.…
Lees meerPC makers ditch Google OS portables for higher-margin Windows machines as component shortages linger Chromebook shipments collapsed in calendar Q4 as the channel – with an eye on market saturation – ordered in lower volumes and PC makers moved avail…
Lees meerData at rest should remain at rest Dell believes that technologies such as computational storage will soon play a part in high-performance computing (HPC) in response to ever-growing volumes of data. It doesn't see the general-purpose CPU disappeari…
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Lees meerNot enough money going into 40nm+ process nodes Semiconductor shortage issues will continue through the first half of 2022 as the industry attempts to build up inventory to normal levels, according to research firm IDC.…
Lees meerFederal appeals court upholds decision not to block connection protection rules The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court's refusal to block California's net neutrality law (SB 822), affirming that state laws can regulate …
Lees meerOh boy While Microsoft's Azure Quantum continues to hover between vapourware and hardware – a state of quantum if you will – NASA boffins have been putting tech inspired by the research to work in spacecraft communications.…
Lees meerAll that and improved energy efficiency The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has published the official standards for HBM3 memory, the latest update to the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Standard.…
Lees meerSure, you can program an autopilot but will you be defeated by a Dell? On Call Some users are less than bright, and some are just slightly dim. But few are quite as dim as this high-flying employee of the world's formerly favourite airline. Welcome…
Lees meerCook & Co made $384M profit per day during latest quarter Apple is hauling in the cash as Mac users escape Intel x86 processors and upgrade to Cupertino's homegrown Arm-compatible M1 chips in record numbers.…
Lees meerTogether with Japanese space agency, now imagining optical comms terminals on sats Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) and the Japanese space agency have conducted an experiment to transmit data from the stratosphere to space and declared the r…
Lees meerAs commissioner suggests watchdog gets ability to crack down further on China-controlled data centers Citing national security concerns, America's Federal Communications Commission has barred Chinese carrier China Unicom from providing telecoms serv…
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Lees meerExpects more stability but warns of potential fab lockdowns on road ahead Samsung blamed disruptions in the global supply chain for failing to meet its own guidance for DRAM and NAND shipments during final three months of 2021, nevertheless racked u…
Lees meerCustomers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted HP is hiking the UK price of Instant Ink monthly plans by more than 50 per cent in some cases, although the company website is still showing the cost of the soon-to-be …
Lees meerWhile creators were stripping away annoying styling, users starting to make Geminispace a bunker, says critic Project Gemini is a new internet protocol designed to be simpler and lighter to make it easier for people to design, run, and use their own…
Lees meerWith microcode intact so it can work with an original operator's console Hardware guru Ken Shirriff is working on a simulator for the IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe, launched in April 1964. His program runs the original machine's microcode so it can c…
Lees meerAh, y'know what, maybe those rebates for not using AMD chips weren't so anti-competitive after all, eh? Intel Corporation no longer has to pay a €1.06bn ($1.2bn, £890m) fine imposed by the European Commission (EC) in 2009 for abusing its dominance o…
Lees meerCupertino cut prices and cleaned up Huawei's share of China's smartphone market fell by 68 per cent year over year, and Apple took advantage to become the Middle Kingdom's most ubiquitous smartphone vendor in 2021's final quarter.…
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