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Chips and processor hardware

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  APAC SMEs still hanging on to older PCs

  A majority of small and medium-sized business in Asia-Pacific are still using PCs older than four years out of cost and application compatibility concerns

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Foreshadow mitigation obscures licensing impact

  Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Autumn Budget 2018: Guarantees sought over future funding of national quantum computing programme

  The chair of the Science and Tech Committee has written to the chancellor Philip Hammond to demand assurances that more funding for the UK's quantum computing efforts will be forthcoming in the Autumn 2018 budget

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Brussels loans Nokia €500m to fund European 5G research

  European Investment Bank is loaning Nokia half a billion euros to accelerate 5G mobile network R&D

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Intel releases fix for latest chip security flaws

  Businesses and consumers are advised to download security updates from Intel for new security flaws that could allow attackers to access protected data, but some cloud providers could see a performance impact

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Virus outbreak at iPhone chip plant could delay shipments

  A computer virus at an iPhone chip manufacturing plant could delay shipments of Apple’s latest smartphones, but the impact will be limited, say analysts

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Alex von Schirmeister, CDTIO, RS Components

  The electronics distributor’s chief digital, technology and innovation officer (CDTIO) on putting in place a new IT infrastructure, creating a digital business and accepting risk

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Spectre variant gives buffer overflow a new twist

  New variants of the Spectre microprocessor bugs use buffer overflow-style attacks to run malicious code

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  Quantum is revolutionary, but UK must fix funding

  Quantum sensing could replace GPS navigation, and cut the cost of major building projects. But industry needs to work with academia to prototype quantum technologies

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  University of Melbourne claims quantum computing breakthrough

  Australian scientists have simulated the power of quantum computing on classical computers to solve a mathematical problem, paving the way for future breakthroughs in the nascent field

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost

  The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Digital Catapult partners with Cray to give AI startups supercomputing power

  Innovation centre says partnership will bring down some of the barriers to entry that startups often face in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Intelligence on the edge will see workloads migrate from clouds

  IoT devices’ ability to make their own decisions will see computing shift back from the cloud to the edge, ABI Research has predicted

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Security researchers find fourth CPU flaw

  Security researchers have reported another flaw in common microprocessor chips related to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities