Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage
UpdatedWelp, that's one way to block those annoying spam robots
15 Jun 2020 | 25
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ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'
No breakages, no change in operation, no problem
12 Jun 2020 | 158
Intel outside: Chip king Keller quits x86 giant immediately 'for personal reasons'
'We wish him and his family all the best for the future' says US mega-corp
11 Jun 2020 | 13
Arm goes off road... map: 5nm Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph
Meanwhile, A78, Mali-G78 and Ethos-N78 announced, too
26 May 2020 | 3
We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most
Coronavirus focused minds on desktop kit, networking, security, cloud, Register reader survey finds
12 May 2020 | 7
Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors
10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max
01 May 2020 | 41
Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints
Who said open-source alternatives? Haha, no one here said it, you must have imagined it
29 Apr 2020 | 2
Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking
And few worried about security – are they right?
31 Mar 2020 | 47
Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell
Plus: Intel ditches forthcoming Cooper Lake single, dual-socket 14nm Xeons from its roadmap
18 Mar 2020 |
Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it
Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto
10 Mar 2020 | 18
Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra
Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC
03 Mar 2020 | 21
Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown
Thanks to America's antitrust laws
04 Jan 2020 | 21
RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...
UpdatedMore stuff that'll get under Arm's skin
10 Dec 2019 | 4
Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c
Looking forward to seeing these in, well, anything would be nice
05 Dec 2019 | 7
In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones
While supremo predicts mmWave deployments by 2021, everyone moving to the cloud
04 Dec 2019 | 17
We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...
...nd its nt evevn lunchteim yt
03 Dec 2019 | 18
A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years
03 Dec 2019 | 12
Intel's back. Can't keep it down. Back with 5G. Back in the game, back with modems... that have 'MediaTek' written on them
Plus: AMD teases third-gen 64-core Threadripper and more
25 Nov 2019 | 10
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer
SC19If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again
18 Nov 2019 | 26
Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack
UpdatedDistributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned
22 Oct 2019 | 36
UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer
HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast
15 Oct 2019 | 36
Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)
All it takes is -u#-1 ... Wh%& t#e fsck*?
14 Oct 2019 | 74
Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance
TechConRISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions
08 Oct 2019 | 41
Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry
Vitis toolkit for the rest of us, coming soon, allegedly
01 Oct 2019 | 20
