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
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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
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 | 8
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 | 5
Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage
Updated Welp, that's one way to block those annoying spam robots
15 Jun 2020 | 25
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...
Updated More 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
