AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Chip giant Micron has announced a $150bn global investment plan designed to support manufacturing and research over the next decade.…
Lees meerKit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Korean DRAM fabber SK hynix has developed an HBM3 DRAM chip operating at 819GB/sec.…
Lees meerAtkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register The UK government has awarded management consultancy Atkins a £23m contract to help it get to grips with accidental damage to underground pipes and cables, which is costing £2.4bn a …
Lees meerFollowing the Fleet Navigating Officers' course Boatnotes II The art of not driving your warship into the coast or the seabed is a curious blend of the ancient and the very modern, as The Reg discovered while observing the Royal Navy's Fleet Naviga…
Lees meerBut of course chief exec's first computer was an Acorn Like so many of us in tech, Arm CEO Simon Segars has his own computing origins story, which he shared during a speech on Tuesday at the Arm DevSummit developer conference.…
Lees meerAnd that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record Facebook will hand over $14.25m to the US government and American workers to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices.…
Lees meerChocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them Google held a virtual event on Tuesday to introduce its latest Android phones, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, which are based on a Google-designed Tensor system-o…
Lees meerDecides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads HPE's networking subsidiary Aruba has added data processing units to a switch.…
Lees meerGot a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should... Confusion continues to reign in the world of television, including UK national broadcaster Channel 4, weeks after a broadcast centre cockup wrought havoc upon servers.…
Lees meerThe answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together Reg Reader Survey The introduction of new systems into an organization is essential. If we stay still, if we continue to rely on legacy systems, if we fail to inn…
Lees meerAnd they're almost certainly better than a laptop jowel-cam Review It has been a long 20 months since Lockdown 1.0, and despite the best efforts of Google and Zoom et al to filter out the worst effects of built-in laptop webcams, a replacement migh…
Lees meerSneaking in programming under the guise of plastic bricks There is good news for the intersection of Lego and Raspberry Pi fans today, as a new HAT (the delightfully named Hardware Attached on Top) will be unveiled for the diminutive computer to con…
Lees meerIt might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not Intel has teased a new tech it calls "Software Defined Silicon" (SDSi) but is saying almost nothing about it – and has told The Register it could amount to…
Lees meerWhere we're going, we don't need 5nm Analysis Cars are gaining momentum as computers on wheels, though chip manufacturers' auto focus isn't on making components using the latest and greatest fabrication nodes.…
Lees meerWe can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges when they only want to scan and fax documents using the manufacturer's so-called All-In-One multi-function printer…
Lees meerx86 is an eighty-sixed ex Apple on Monday announced 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models armed with its Arm-compatible Apple Silicon chips, extending its platform architecture transition, and Intel exodus, for its high-end notebooks.…
Lees meerThis better be a Prime delivery US House representatives say they are ready to call upon the Department of Justice to investigate whether Amazon executives, including ex-CEO Jeff Bezos, lied to Congress about whether the internet giant unfairly uses…
Lees meerUK Cabinet Office organises latest print hardware and supplies mega framework The UK government has awarded a contract worth up to £875m for a range of printer hardware and multi-function devices in a move which again raises questions about whether …
Lees meerInformation wants to be free, and it's making its escape Opinion Forget the Singularity. That modern myth where AI learns to improve itself in an exponential feedback loop towards evil godhood ain't gonna happen. Spacetime itself sets hard limits o…
Lees meerSay what you mean NSFW Who, Me? Ever written that angry email and accidentally hit send instead of delete? Take a trip back to the 1990s equivalent with a slightly NSFW Who, Me?…
Lees meerDespite Chinese labor laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common Chinese software developers have crowdsourced a spreadsheet that dishes the dirt on working conditions at hundreds of employers.…
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