Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of? The US government is considering taking a stake in Intel and other semiconductor companies that benefit from CHIPS Act funding, according to officials from the Trump administrati…
Lees meerGood start, but you have to keep it up, say key players Feature It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a lo…
Lees meerChipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gai…
Lees meerResearchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deplo…
Lees meerMemory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…
Lees meerRami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.…
Lees meerIt's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards Nvidia is reportedly prepping a new Blackwell-based GPU for the Chinese market that'll outperform its controversial H20 accelerators.…
Lees meerCloud outage? No problem. Use VergeOS instead Partner content For organizations with multiple sites, each location must continue operating if it loses connectivity to the core datacenter or the cloud. Remote offices, branch offices (ROBO), point-of…
Lees meerPlan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong? US government buyers have been busy getting AI into the hands of federal agencies, and now they're taking a moment to ask the industry how some of that AI magic c…
Lees meerUnexpected news from Pine64, but there are other goodies to compensate Pine64 is moving from Arm kit to RISC-V. As a result, its higher-end open smartphones is for the chop – but not the lower-end model.…
Lees meerReport recommends that the UK become a leader in chip design The British government's advisory body on science and technology thinks the country could be a world leader in designing AI chips, if it could just get the right investment and skills in p…
Lees meer500, 600, 1200, 2000... what's your number? Hands on The Commodore Amiga turned 40 this year, and the event has been marked by The National Museum Of Computing in the UK with a hands-on exhibition of models from the archives.…
Lees meerTulsi Gabbard boasts Washington forced Blighty to drop iPhone encryption fight The UK government has reportedly abandoned its attempt to strong-arm Apple into weakening iPhone encryption after the White House forced Blighty into a quiet climb-down.…
Lees meerTakes two percent stake as rumours swirl Uncle Sam could do something similar Japanese tech investment concern SoftBank has made a $2 billion investment in Intel.…
Lees meerA plan to standardize IT record keeping is incomplete after 8 years, and the GAO wants someone to act The US federal government first planned to standardize its categorization of IT costs, resources, and solutions back in 2017. Eight years later, th…
Lees meerPrecogs replaced by profiling and postcode data... and 'AI'. What could wrong? Lots, say privacy campaigners The UK government has unveiled a scheme to use AI to "help police catch criminals before they strike."…
Lees meerAgency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers The UK tax authority has been forced to clean house after dozens of staff were caught helping themselves to taxpayer records.…
Lees meerSni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause Security boffins have released an open source tool for poking holes in 5G mobile networks, claiming it can do up- and downlink sniffing and a novel connection downgrad…
Lees meerBrits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms Amazon's Alexa is on the fritz, bungling alarms and timers and leaving some UK users trapped in an endless wake-up call.…
Lees meerThe real lesson here is how little some companies care about training Who, Me? Welcome to Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes and reveal if they derailed your career…
Lees meerPrime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has celebrated the nation’s independence day by pointing out that the nation is …
Lees meer