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UK's Competition and Markets Authority sticks probe in SK Hynix's $9bn proposed buy of Intel's NAND and SSD units

woensdag 28 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating SK Hynix's agreed $9bn purchase of Intel's NAND and SSD businesses to ascertain if the deal would negatively …

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FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices

woensdag 28 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe) If you had 5G and cryptomining on your buzzword bingo cards, crack open the bubbly – FreedomFi gateways will mine the HNT cryptocurrency in exchange for providing 5G cellular coverage to IoT devices and pas…

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Singapore goes Cray-cray in the best way, picks HPE for new 10 PFLOP supercomputer

woensdag 28 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

$30M, 100,000-core beast will use third-gen AMD EPYCs and 352 - count 'em - NVIDIA A100 GPUs Singapore has picked Hewlett Packard Enterprises to build a new SG$40M (US$30M) supercomputer for its national petascale facility, the National Supercomputi…

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In case you were wondering, no, AMD hasn't managed to fsck everything up. It's still making lots of money

woensdag 28 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic AMD beat Wall Street's expectations for the first quarter of this year as demand for gaming PCs, notebooks, and servers using its x86-64 processors remained high dur…

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Beijing offers tax credits to patent-packing, R&Ding chip outfits great and very small

woensdag 28 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Big list of requirements to get the financial boost – and no mention of 'cut and paste from the West' China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has defined type of silicon companies it is willing to offer tax credits – and even small o…

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How HPC should mean high performance storage, too

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Big data shouldn’t mean slow answers Sponsored  When you’re asking big questions, you really don’t want to have to trade off accuracy and insight for speed.…

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Don't blame rural carriers for buying Huawei, says FCC Commissioner. They couldn't afford the top-shelf stuff

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Cites extremely nascent OpenRAN as country's great hope Smaller carriers and networks are the weakest link in America’s telecommunications supply chain, FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks claimed while speaking at a supply chain integrity workshop.…

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Terror of the adtech industry iOS 14.5 has landed, and Siri can answer your calls ... though she/he can't hang up

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Good news for users with disabilities, though there's room for improvement Point releases typically come and go without much fanfare. By their very nature, they're incremental, bringing modest performance and security updates, and not much else. The…

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You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint Arm today publicly added two more CPU cores to its Neoverse family of data-center and server-grade processors: the V1 aimed at demanding workloads and vector math, and the N2 for lighter, scale-out systems.…

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Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for US$550M

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Oh what a dealing Toyota has announced that its brand-new Woven Planet Group will by raid-share company Lyft’s self-driving technology unit, "Level 5", for US$550M.…

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China claims it’s stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

The standard is nascent and won’t land for almost a decade. But the jockeying for position is already fierce China’s State Intellectual Property Office has proclaimed the nation already dominates the world in development of patents pertinent to sixt…

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GlobalFoundries shifts HQ from Silicon Valley to join its tip-top chip fab in New York

dinsdag 27 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage US chip maker GlobalFoundries will move its headquarters from Santa Clara, California, to Malta, New York, to be closer to its most advanced plant, Fab 8.…

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Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Picking intellectual property fights with internet backbone biz seldom ends well Cloudflare today offered $100,000 for evidence of prior art to kill off a bunch of patents it is accused of infringing.…

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OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all The unexplained awakening over the past four months of more than 100 million previously dormant US Department of Defense (DoD) IPv4 addresses now has an exp…

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PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record Notebook, desktop and workstation shipments in Europe, Middle East and Africa swelled to almost 24 million units in Q1 as distributors and retailers gear up for potentially the bigges…

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Apple faces another suit over its allegedly misleading water resistance claims

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Filing says most users' devices 'may experience limited water contact' Apple is facing a prospective class-action lawsuit in New York over allegations it misrepresented the levels of water resistance of its iPhones.…

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Salesman who helped land Veritas UK's 'largest ever' deal was lawfully docked £275k in commission, says judge

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

You win some, then you lose some A Veritas salesman had £275,000 in "windfall" commission withheld after helping land "the largest ever deal in Veritas's history" – and a judge found a clause in his employment contract which made it lawful to do tha…

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Don't cross the team tasked with policing the surfing habits of California's teens

maandag 26 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

You don't get me, I'm part of the union Who, Me?  Bid farewell to the weekend with a tale of surfing snoopage and automation rejected in another story from The Register's Who, Me? files.…

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Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details A cadre of Republican senators have proposed allocating $65bn to developing broadband infrastructure in America as part of a $568bn five-year spending plan.…

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From pregnancy tests to obscure industrial kitchen appliances, Doom really will run on almost anything

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

As long as the technical nous is there If you've ever worked in a commercial kitchen, you probably know what a "bump bar" is. These plank-like computerised boards are the organisational force behind every restaurant, enabling sweat-drenched chefs to…

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Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inThe Register Data Centre (Tech News)

Early users get speed, so policy-makers may stop building, but more users means slower speeds ... Elon Musk's Starlink project has copped more criticism, this time from a researcher at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia-Pacific regio…

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