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Lees meerStop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention Intel on Tuesday announced the availability of its "Ice Lake" 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors, intended for applications running on servers, high-end workstations, and in d…
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Lees meerLack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it LG Electronics' board has tired of its loss-making smartphone business and ordered its closure.…
Lees meerMay the 4th not be with you Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in a month's time after nearly sixteen years online.…
Lees meerSurely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls A US court has rejected Apple's request to throw out a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the iGiant of knowingly selling MacBook Pro laptops with defective display cable…
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Lees meerGood times for NVMe-based flash arrays and Cisco India’s overall network and storage market both showed declines in the final quarter of 2020 due to lingering work and school from home measures and banking organizations spending less on storage.…
Lees meer'The regulatory frameworks we rely on to support these efforts are dated' FCC acting commissh Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed giving the US commercial space industry a dedicated block of spectrum in order to support future rocket launches.…
Lees meerAnd drought in Taiwan threatens supply. Good news for firm's wallet, not so much for chip buyers Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has warned about a "severe shortage" of supply in the DRAM memory market, with the situation expected to worsen as the year p…
Lees meerAlso: Accessibility improvements and cosmetic tweaks included A new version of Visual Studio Code has arrived just in time for Chocolate Egg Day featuring "official support for Raspberry Pi OS", which might come as a surprise to those who have spent…
Lees meerBT Group arm says it'll 'encourage' a switch to modern kit; ISP says consumers on legacy CAN'T switch Openreach has said it will raise the cost of installing and delivering certain “legacy” wholesale products, including FTTC and copper, in order to …
Lees meerCapitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era Hitachi announced it will purchase US software deevloper GlobalLogic for US$9.6B.…
Lees meerExtraordinary response by .uk registry operator effectively dares members to fire the rest of them Nominet has rejected calls for serious change at the .uk registry operator despite losing its CEO, chairman, and three board members to a membership v…
Lees meerBest not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again Analyst firm IDC has spotted up an uptick in the Asia Pacific region's printer market, thanks to a certain virus you may read about in the news of late.…
Lees meerPlus $50bn pledge to boost chip R&D and fabbing in the Land of the Free A new national infrastructure plan outlined by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday equates fast internet access – broadband – with other utilities including water and power.…
Lees meerGlobal pandemic and sanctions? Yes, they played a bit part too Huawei was forced to rely solely on the buying power of its domestic customers in calendar 2020 as foreign trade melted away in the face of US-led sanctions and a global pandemic.…
Lees meerFTC cites 'significant headwinds' in trying to fight the San Diego chipmaker The Federal Trade Commission has given up its antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm although the US watchdog still claims the chip maker violated fair competition laws.…
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