Supply Chain

Chip fab locations more important than oil well placement, says Gelsinger

Intel CEO not surprised by US export controls on tech to China

Systems25 Oct 2022 | 9

PC shipments are still on the decline – unless you're Apple

Cupertino managed to buck the trend with year-on-year growth of 40%

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 9

Japanese sushi chain boss resigns amid accusation of improper data access

Data theft stinks, says victim. Alleged perp claims he's getting a raw deal

Cyber-crime04 Oct 2022 | 15

Ethereum Merge signals end of GPU shortage, but not necessarily high prices

Analysis What a mine field

Personal Tech24 Sep 2022 | 12

Supply chain normality returns for PCs but not servers, says Dell

Over at HP, CEO says a client price war is now looming

Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 3

Chip delivery times fall, but so does demand as global economic conditions worsen

Analyst believes industry is in for 'deepest downcycle and inventory correction in over a decade'

Systems09 Sep 2022 | 5

PyPI warns of first-ever phishing campaign against its users

On the bright side, top devs are getting hardware security keys

Cyber-crime26 Aug 2022 | 5

LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder

Your passwords are still safe, biz says

Security25 Aug 2022 | 46

China's Chongqing manufacturing hub extends factory power cuts indefinitely

PC component manufacturers won't get priority as area faces fires and heatwaves

Personal Tech25 Aug 2022 | 3

Mouse hiding in cable tray cheesed off its bemused user

On Call Who knows where all those cables go anyway?

Systems19 Aug 2022 | 138

Supply chain worries heat up again as China shuts down factories to cool its citizens

Scorching weather sees scarce juice diverted to aircon instead of laptops and lithium

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 13

Wave of corruption claims crash into China's chip Big Fund

On the same day the United States kickstarts one of its own

Systems09 Aug 2022 | 10

Shanghai surprise? Another analyst sees historic PC decline

Remember when China's tech execs warned lockdown in its biggest city would have 'severe consequences?'

Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 | 5

Automation outfit ABB sees supply chain woes easing

How can you have these worries as a software business? Just ask Cisco

Software21 Jul 2022 |

Global chip shortage far from over and now semiconductor market faces slowdown

Plus: ASML cuts growth forecast and US CHIPS Act in limbo

Systems20 Jul 2022 | 1

TSMC reports record profits as customers hoard chips

Chipmaker braces for a course correction but remains 'highly confident' in long-term outlook

Software15 Jul 2022 |

Someone may be prepping an NPM crypto-mining spree

1,300 packages from 1,000 automated user accounts set the stage for something big

Research07 Jul 2022 | 8

Typo-squatting NPM software supply chain attack uncovered

Beawre teh mizpelled pakcage naem

Security06 Jul 2022 | 7

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

Microsoft says it'll move to 'restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers'

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 37

Microsoft gives its partners power to change AD privileges on customer systems – without permission

Updated Somewhat counterintuitively, this is being done to improve security

Security01 Jul 2022 | 11

Not much of this actually from 'China anymore,' says Northern Light Motors boss

UK outfit's all-electric 630 three-wheeler is eccentric, but supply chain issues are less whimsical

Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 58

For a few days earlier this year, rogue GitHub apps could have hijacked countless repos

A bit of a near-hit for the software engineering world

Devops21 Jun 2022 | 5

Supply chain attacks will get worse: Microsoft Security Response Center boss

RSA Conference Do you know all of your software dependencies? Spoiler alert: hardly anybody is on top of it

Security09 Jun 2022 | 10

Enemies Waymo, Uber now friends making self-driving-ish trucks for US highways

When you think about it, it makes cents

AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 14

Transport giant picks up Google Cloud AI to aid package delivery, tracking

When an exec asked for help tackling supply-chain woes, were they told to 'just Google it' or what?

AI + ML06 Jun 2022 | 1

US, Europe move to secure access to Taiwanese tech

The chips must flow. But don't mention the Great Wall

Legal02 Jun 2022 | 3

CIOs largely believe their software supply chain is vulnerable

Internal bureaucracy and barriers hold up roll out of defenses, report finds

Patches31 May 2022 | 3

Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes

China needs this as much as the rest of the world

Personal Tech30 May 2022 | 21

Google's got a plan to secure software supply chains

Java and Python packages are the first on the list

Security17 May 2022 | 3

EU-US Trade and Technology Council meets to coordinate on supply chains

Agenda includes warning system for disruptions, and avoiding 'subsidy race' for chip investments

Systems16 May 2022 | 3

Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker

Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles

Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19

Mystery of industry-targeting backdoored NPM JavaScript packages solved

Yup, 'the intern' did it

Devops12 May 2022 | 11

Meet Moeco, Ukrainian-led biz using IoT trackers to follow supplies into invaded land

From COVID-19 chaos to Russia's war, startup CEO opens up

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2022 | 9

Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers

Who will win? Staff unions or $1bn of venture capital?

Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 14

Shanghai lockdown: Chinese tech execs warn of supply-chain chaos

'Severe consequences' for industry ... and anyone setting foot outside

Systems19 Apr 2022 | 52

Samsung dethrones Intel as chip sector grows 26% in 2021

South Korea the big winner in a year of supply struggles and continued shortages

Systems14 Apr 2022 | 4

NASA: Telework doesn't work when you're building a Moon rover

VIPER mission running late thanks to WfH orders, also bitten by tech supply chain woes

Software07 Apr 2022 | 2

Chip designers made bank in 2021 amid global shortage

Absolutely Fabless: A good year for those who don't make the things themselves

Storage24 Mar 2022 | 3

Check Point spreads AI goodness throughout its security portfolio

GTC Evolving threat environment means preventative AI – and SmartNICs – are needed to improve protection

Security24 Mar 2022 |

This is a BlackCat you don't want crossing your path

Plus: Android trojan in 100,000+ app installs, Solaris malware

Security22 Mar 2022 | 3

Procurement guy at Apple allegedly ripped off iPhone giant in $10m+ scam

He faces conspiracy, laundering, tax evasion charges

Personal Tech22 Mar 2022 | 17

China's tech hub relaxes COVID restrictions to restart industrial production

Shenzhen still restricts movement and crowds, so supply chains may yet splutter

On-Prem21 Mar 2022 | 19

Japan's earthquake disrupts already fragile tech sector

Shutdowns in factories put crunch on weakened supply chain

Systems17 Mar 2022 | 5

China's top tech city Shenzhen locks down completely for at least a week

iPhone plants closed and so have plenty more - brace for tech supply chain trouble

On-Prem14 Mar 2022 | 35

Chip world's major suppliers of neon gas shut down by Ukraine invasion – report

Neon Genesis: Even Cryoin gone

Systems11 Mar 2022 | 40

Conflict in Ukraine disrupts fragile supply chain recovery

Energy and air costs rise, inflation is up... and Russia 'likely turn to Chinese vendors' says analyst

Personal Tech10 Mar 2022 | 46

Proprietary neural tech you had surgically implanted? Parts shortage

Something for the Weekend? Sorry about it. You know how it is with supply chains. Aroogah, arooogah....

Bootnotes04 Mar 2022 | 131

BlueVoyant pulls in another $250m in venture funding

Company offers protection against internal and supply chain threats

Security24 Feb 2022 |

PC OEMs are sitting on 10 weeks-plus of DRAM, says Trendforce

Pandemic-induced supply chain imbalance did it

Storage18 Feb 2022 | 11

Cisco can't say when long waits for hardware will end

Omicron dents Switchzilla's previous optimism that late 2022 could see backlog clear

Networks17 Feb 2022 | 6

SiC move: STMicroelectronics banks on bringing power electronics material in house as electric cars rev up

Supply chain management is back at the forefront

On-Prem01 Feb 2022 | 2

Inflation hits PC market as laptop and desktop prices jump, and most businesses are last in the line for kit

Constrained supply of parts like USB-C among reasons for price hikes

Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 3

Report: Apple short of 10 million iPhone 13s this year due to ongoing chip shortage

Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis

Personal Tech13 Oct 2021 | 14

Every Little Helps: Former Tesco boss Dave Lewis to advise UK govt on supply chains

Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway

Offbeat12 Oct 2021 | 37

IDC: Global PC market growing pains in Q3 due to 'softening' of sales in America

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again?

Personal Tech11 Oct 2021 | 3

Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November

Demand for components at a 10-year high

Networks06 Oct 2021 | 9