Four or so things we found interesting about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G chip for high-end Androids
Samsung 5nm, Cortex-X1, integrated... wait, let's not give it all away
02 Dec 2020 | 35
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Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year
Plus or minus some caveats
24 Nov 2020 | 54
Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out
Ring, Echo owners get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality
24 Nov 2020 | 115
Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits
Exec, two officers, one other charged
23 Nov 2020 | 103
BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating
Time Lord tapped to introduce youngsters to hardware and coding
19 Nov 2020 | 37
SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces
Updated Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip
29 Oct 2020 | 26
Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
Well, that narrows down the list of suspects to just a few billion people
28 Oct 2020 | 170
RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music
Updated Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?
23 Oct 2020 | 110
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Updated Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too
23 Oct 2020 | 67
Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence
Updated No, say it ain't so, maga_christ9000@post.ir
22 Oct 2020 | 82
SiFive reminds everyone you don't always need to offload vector math: Here's a RISC-V CPU that can process it, too
VIU75 core is 64-bit, runs Linux, supports RV vector extension
21 Oct 2020 | 1
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
Updated And the world breathed a sigh of relief?
15 Oct 2020 | 54
Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT
If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team
13 Oct 2020 | 1
Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+
Let the chips fall where they may
09 Oct 2020 | 18
Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit
Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc
07 Oct 2020 | 6
Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers
Video 5U box can reach up to six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second, it is claimed
29 Sep 2020 | 8
Arm hasn't given up on self-driving car brains – its new Cortex-A78AE is going into Nvidia's Orin chip, for a start
Yes, that Nvidia
29 Sep 2020 | 6
Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
In brief Plus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM
19 Sep 2020 | 6
What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too
17 Sep 2020 | 15
Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...
Register Debate Spoiler alert: Not that machine-learning salesperson
11 Sep 2020 | 37
Psst, you want us to design you an Arm chip? 'Cause we can do that, says RISC-V processor darling SiFive
ISA-agnostic OpenFive unit will focus on custom SoCs while parent will crack on with CPU blueprints
17 Aug 2020 | 8
If you want to design and make your own 5nm high-end system-on-chip, Marvell's offering ASIC-as-a-service
Yes, it's going to cost a bob or two, but the option's there
23 Jul 2020 | 10
Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank
Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores
07 Jul 2020 | 1
If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free
Plus: IBM emits BlueGene/Q CPU blueprints – and 'fastest' open-source RISC-V core emerges
03 Jul 2020 | 34
