National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga has outlined a national growth strategy that will include doing whatever it takes to lure semiconductor manufacturers to the nation’s…
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Lees meerOh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks Amazon warehouse workers sustain serious injuries more frequently than employees working in similar jobs across thousands of other companies, a report by unions concluded on Tuesday.…
Lees meer3070 Ti, 3080 Ti available this month ... well, in theory Nvidia announced two more GPUs this week: the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. These represent its latest “gaming flagship” hardware.…
Lees meerAmazon's container service running on-premises: a turnaround for a company that once scorned hybrid cloud ECS Anywhere, which enables on-premises or Edge container applications to be managed by AWS, is now generally available.…
Lees meerPromises lower latencies, higher power thresholds BT has started trials of hollow-core fibre optical networks to test if they can raise fixed-line speeds and produce mobile networks with lower latencies.…
Lees meerOne of the few differentiators left in the smartphone arena Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi has demoed its latest fast charging tech, dubbed HyperCharge. With purported wired speeds of 200W, Xiaomi claims it can fully replenish a 4,000mAh battery in eig…
Lees meerWill its vision for unified analytics fly? Databricks, the commercial company founded around the popular Apache Spark data lake, is making a strike for new class workloads and enterprise data management jobs in its make-or-break IPO year.…
Lees meerCars are becoming computers on wheels, but car-makers aren't tuned into the silicon innovation cycle Feature In February 2021, giant automakers Nissan and Honda warned shareholder that revenue was set to fall. The cause of the imminent fall was not…
Lees meerCEO reveals new Teslas include AMD silicon and that Samsung has signed to pack RDNA 2 graphics into Exynos SoCs COMPUTEX AMD has revealed a new 3D chip stacking technology it claims delivers the equivalent performance boost to a new generation of c…
Lees meerTSMC is well on truly on top with 55 percent market share The world's top 10 semiconductor foundries set new records for combined revenue in 1Q21 by growing one percent quarter-on-quarter to reach US$22.75B, thanks to price hikes and full utilizatio…
Lees meerGoogle spawned it, Cloudflare backed it, Microsoft made its own cut. Boffins worry it didn't improve privacy Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) have graduated to Internet Engineering Task Force’s standards track.…
Lees meerTeases Alder Lake architecture – which mixes different cores – and some 5G fun Computex Intel has found another pair of 11th-gen CPUs and announced them at Taiwan’s Computex conference, then revealed its 12th-gen “Alder Lake” architecture is “just …
Lees meerDouble-mutant strain puts electronics factories at risk Vietnam’s government has asked Samsung to find COVID-19 vaccinations to protect workers in provinces that are home to industrial parks, a request that reflects the co-dependence between the Kor…
Lees meerDisney and Comcast get a pass from the Sunshine State, though Two technology grade groups backed by Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter among others, on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a new Florida law, SB 7072, that prohibits social…
Lees meerAmazing how being able to write off 130% of infrastructure deployment focuses minds BT-owned Openreach threw rural Britain a bone today, announcing it would double the number of country premises expected to receive FTTP access by the end of 2026.…
Lees meerSo if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them The Ministry of Defence’s IT systems are “too fragmented, fragile, insecure and obsolescent” and its operators are “mired in industrial age processes and culture,” according…
Lees meerYes, you read that right The retro computing craze spiked during the pandemic. With the usual watering holes closed, some techies occupied their time by painstakingly restoring the old Performa towers cluttering their lofts.…
Lees meerLenovo ops chief adds: 'Everything that is able to be built is selling' Planning on buying one of those cheaper laptop PCs? Some of you might have to settle for something altogether more desk-based due to the component shortages.…
Lees meerThe sound of silence? No, no, it's stupidity On Call A reminder of who is really in charge and how one should set one's priorities awaits in today's episode of On Call.…
Lees meerHopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing South Korea today announced a National Ultra High Performance Computing Innovation Strategy that aims to have the company build an exas…
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