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SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces

Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip

29 Oct 2020 15:30 | 27

Security

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 02:29 | 170

Updated

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music

Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?

23 Oct 2020 23:23 | 110

Updated

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too

23 Oct 2020 20:42 | 68

Updated

Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence

No, say it ain't so, maga_christ9000@post.ir

22 Oct 2020 02:03 | 82

Science

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 15:30 | 1

Updated

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

And the world breathed a sigh of relief?

15 Oct 2020 22:00 | 54

SaaS

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 08:00 | 1

Science

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 02:25 | 17

Virtualization

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 06:31 | 6

Video

Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

5U box can reach up to six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second, it is claimed

29 Sep 2020 14:03 | 8

AI + ML

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 13:00 | 6

In brief

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

Plus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM

19 Sep 2020 13:13 | 6

Science

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 13:00 | 15

Register Debate

Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...

Spoiler alert: Not that machine-learning salesperson

11 Sep 2020 14:59 | 37

Science

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 13:00 | 8

Networks

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 12:30 | 10

Edge + IoT

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 21:08 | 1

Science

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 15:30 | 34

Servers

Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores

That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year

23 Jun 2020 13:00 | 8

Personal Tech

Qualcomm looks to hook the masses to 5G... if it arrives: Snapdragon 690, X51 modem to power mid-range gear

That's Sub-6GHz 5G alongside octa-core processor, GPU and AI units

17 Jun 2020 02:00 | 5

Updated

Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage

Welp, that's one way to block those annoying spam robots

15 Jun 2020 22:36 | 25

Software

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 22:09 | 158

On-Prem

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 21:27 | 13

Science

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 13:00 | 3

SaaS

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 10:00 | 7

Personal Tech

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 07:51 | 41

Science

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 13:00 | 2

On-Prem

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 11:00 | 47

Servers

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 08:04 |

Networks

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 13:00 | 18

Servers

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 14:00 | 21

Storage

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 00:17 | 21

Updated

RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...

More stuff that'll get under Arm's skin

10 Dec 2019 19:10 | 4

OSes

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 20:30 | 7

Science

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 19:00 | 17

Science

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 21:56 | 18

Science

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 01:09 | 12

Networks

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 21:32 | 10

SC19

A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer

If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again

18 Nov 2019 00:00 | 26

Updated

Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack

Distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned

22 Oct 2019 22:00 | 36

HPC

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 06:51 | 36

OSes

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 21:14 | 73

TechCon

Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance

RISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions

08 Oct 2019 17:00 | 41

Science

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 16:00 | 20

On-Prem

Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it

Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers

29 Aug 2019 18:00 | 11

VMworld

Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021

CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry

27 Aug 2019 12:00 | 13

VMworld

'Not productive for our business'... Michael Dell urges end to US-China tariff tit-for-tat spat

CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes

26 Aug 2019 22:46 | 30

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SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence

SiFive reminds everyone you don't always need to offload vector math: Here's a RISC-V CPU that can process it, too

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT

Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+

Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit

Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

Arm hasn't given up on self-driving car brains – its new Cortex-A78AE is going into Nvidia's Orin chip, for a start

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

What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased

Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...

Psst, you want us to design you an Arm chip? 'Cause we can do that, says RISC-V processor darling SiFive

If you want to design and make your own 5nm high-end system-on-chip, Marvell's offering ASIC-as-a-service

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores

Qualcomm looks to hook the masses to 5G... if it arrives: Snapdragon 690, X51 modem to power mid-range gear

Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage

ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'

Intel outside: Chip king Keller quits x86 giant immediately 'for personal reasons'

Arm goes off road... map: 5nm Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph

We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most

Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors

Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell

Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it

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

Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown

RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...

Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c

In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones

We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...

A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born

Intel's back. Can't keep it down. Back with 5G. Back in the game, back with modems... that have 'MediaTek' written on them

A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer

Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack

UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance

Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry

Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it

Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021

'Not productive for our business'... Michael Dell urges end to US-China tariff tit-for-tat spat

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