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5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank
Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after allContinue readingTexas Instruments is more and more focusing its fabrication efforts on analog chips and embedded processors – and seeing growing revenue from the components – amid an insatiable demand for the electronics by automakers, industrial system manufacturers, and others.
"Our industrial and automotive customers are increasingly turning to analog and embedded technology to make their end products smarter, safer, more connected and more efficient," said Dave Pahl, the company's vice president and head of investor relations in a fourth-quarter earnings call with analysts this week.
Analog chips were identified by the US Department of Commerce in a report this week as a weak link in semiconductor supply chain. The department said manufacturers hit hardest by the ongoing supply crunch included buyers of analog chips made using process nodes from 40nm to 800nm.
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Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days
Relatively small number of certs issued using a verification method that doesn't comply with policyContinue readingLet's Encrypt, a non-profit organization that helps people obtain free SSL/TLS certificates for websites, plans to revoke a non-trivial number of its certs on Friday because they were improperly issued.
In a post to the Let's Encrypt discussion community forum, site reliability engineer Jillian Tessa explained that on Tuesday, a third party reported "two irregularities" in the code implementing the "TLS Using ALPN" validation method (BRs 3.2.2.4.20, RFC 8737) in Boulder, its Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) software.
"All active certificates that were issued and validated with the TLS-ALPN-01 challenge before 0048 UTC on 26 January 2022 when our fix was deployed are considered mis-issued," explained Tessa. "In compliance with the Let's Encrypt CP [Certificate Policy], we have 5-days to revoke and will begin to revoke certificates at 1600 UTC on 28 January 2022."
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Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs
1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and moreContinue readingIn the wake of Microsoft's latest set of financial results, Windows boss Panos Panay today gave an update on what he's dubbed a "new era of the PC."
Or as we see it, an era of new PCs being bought that meet the requirements of Microsoft's latest OS.
Panay boasted of 1.4 billion monthly active devices (a figure less than half that of active Android kit numbers last year) running Redmond's operating systems, though stopped short of revealing what was actually running on what.
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Refresh? No, F5 says supply of networking chips is still awful, getting worse...
More than 400 orders for components cancelled by suppliers, says CEOContinue readingThe artist formerly know as F5 Networks – it moved to plain old F5 in November – is clipping revenue forecasts for fiscal '22 by $30m to $90m because it can't source enough specialised chips to produce systems.
The continued impact of the shortfall was outlined in F5's Q1 results to 31 December and subsequent earnings conference call, during which chief exec François Locoh-Donou opened up on the challenge of suppliers cancelling orders because they can't meet demand.
"As a result of persistent strong system demand, our systems backlog continued to grow in Q1," he said. "Over the last 30 days, suppliers of critical components that span a number of our platforms have informed us of significant increases in decommits.
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ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)
Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in MarchContinue readingThe European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter followed up its whizz past Earth as 2021 drew to a close by passing through the tail of a comet. Again.
While eyes were turned to French Guiana and the impending launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, for a few days around 17 December the spacecraft flew through the tail of Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard.
It's not the first time; the spacecraft also passed through the tail of the fragmenting comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS in May and June 2020, a few short months after its launch.
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US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability
Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always doContinue readingUS President Joe Biden has weighed into the Right to Repair furore once more as sueballs fly over some alleged monopolistic practises by a well-known farming equipment manufacturer.
While Biden did not mention John Deere by name in his tweet on the matter (preferring instead to offer plaudits to Apple and Microsoft for changing their policies on punters getting kit fixed by third parties), he did not shy away from other areas in his remarks on the topic.
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How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers
If even Captain PowerShell can't automate this, what hope is there for the rest of us?Continue readingAs Microsoft toasts another quarter of soaring profits, The Reg can't help but wonder if the bottom line is being ever so gently assisted by something that seems to be blighting its staff: difficulty claiming expenses.
Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow, beloved by administrators for PowerShell and stockholders for the likes of Azure Stack, kicked things off last night by airing niggles in that most measured of places – Twitter.
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Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects
Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is comingContinue readingSouth Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MIST) has earmarked ₩9 trillion ($7.5bn/ £5.55bn) for projects including AI and the development of a K-metaverse as part of its Digital New Deal programme.
"The Digital New Deal is a pan-ministry National Innovation Project that seeks to overcome the COVID-19 economic crisis through digitalization across the economy and society," said MIST in a statement.
The New Deal was announced in July 2021 and includes $48.5bn to be spent on network infrastructure, AI development, and other technologies by 2025. The programme is expected to generate 900,000 jobs.
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SCC bags £91m deal after contract to support HMRC system initially set at £85m
Take a hikeContinue readingSCC, a UK-based tech services and reselling dynasty, has won a five-year contract extension with UK tax collector HMRC worth £91m for IT software and services.
According to a contract award notice from December last year, the five-year extension to a relationship that began in 2016 would be awarded for £85m. Perhaps SCC did some last-minute negotiations. We've invited Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to explain the valuation.
The award, apparently made without competition, is set to see SCC provide software licences and support services in partnership with IBM to keep the Declaration Management Service (DMS) system up and running.
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Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever
Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPEContinue readingFormer Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has lost a bid to delay his extradition to the US after a High Court judge ruled there was no reason to impose a months-long delay on the case.
Mr Justice Swift dismissed Lynch's application for judicial review this morning, saying the entrepreneur failed to successfully argue that Home Secretary Priti Patel should have until March to decide whether or not Lynch ought to be extradited.
"In November [District Judge Snow] was being asked, for a second time, to allow a significant extension to the required period," said Mr Justice Swift in a written judgment handed down today. "It was hardly surprising that on that occasion he wanted to understand why the Secretary of State thought she needed to consider the contents of the judgment in the Chancery proceedings in order to decide whether specialty was a barrier to extradition."
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OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu
It's still early days, thoughContinue readingThere is a very preliminary FOSS Start menu replacement for Windows 11 – but it's not quite there yet.
Windows 11 is an interesting release, given that Microsoft once said there wouldn't be any more versions. One might be forgiven for thinking that to reverse that major decision, it would have to be something pretty epochal… but it isn't. It is a bit prettier and does polish off some of the rough edges of Windows 10, but it's mostly a facelift. In one way, it's a functional downgrade as there's a big loss in the customisability of the Taskbar and Start menu, which are the centres of Windows' UI.
Help is coming, though, in the form of OpenShell. OpenShell is the continuing development of the old Classic Shell for Windows 8. Its developers have been discussing the impact of the new Windows, and a new build has snuck out that will install and run.
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