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Chips and processor hardware

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Cray to support US Department of Energy El Capitan exascale programme

  Shasta platform will be used to expand traditional supercomputing to support complex workflows

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Industry collaborates to patch SwapGS CPU vulnerability

  Newly disclosed SwapGS vulnerability in modern processors has been patched in Windows, Linux and ChromeOS, underlining the importance of keeping systems up to date

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Alan Turing to be face of new £50 note

  Computing pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing is to be featured on the new polymer £50 note

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  How Apollo 11 influenced modern computer software and hardware

  On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 began its historic journey to send man to the Moon. We look at the pioneering computer technology developed by Nasa

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  IT pros see a role for high-performance computing in business

  New application areas are pushing the limits of current computing architecture, leading to HPC moving out of research facilities

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Airbus works with Microsoft to trial HoloLens in aircraft manufacturing

  Aircraft company Airbus believes mixed reality systems, powered using headsets such as HoloLens, will drive its digital manufacturing strategy

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  How computer vision powered by Nvidia helped Winnow tackle food waste

  Winnow has developed a biologically inspired machine learning algorithm to identify what foods are being thrown away

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Computer scientist Frank Land receives OBE

  Frank Land, known for his work on the world's first business computer LEO, has received an OBE

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  How Amadeus used FPGAs to break Moore’s Law threshold

  The innovation team at Amadeus worked with technology university ETH in Zurich to test how FPGAs can be used in artificial intelligence

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Autonomous vehicle tech is too costly and unreliable for production

  Level 5, fully autonomous vehicles are a decade away. By then, the tech will be so expensive, that it will only be available on high-end vehicles

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Apple and Qualcomm settle up as Intel quits 5G chip business

  Apple and Qualcomm have set aside their ongoing litigation and struck a deal to work together on future 5G iPhones, leaving Intel in the lurch

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  Prepare to deploy custom hardware to speed up AI

  Latest forecasts suggest spending on artificial intelligence is ramping up, and organisations that need raw machine learning performance are turning to custom hardware

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Singapore invests S$200m to upgrade supercomputing capabilities

  The investment will shore up Singapore’s supercomputing prowess to facilitate research collaboration, as well as address national and business challenges

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  How the immersive VR film Tree was created

  New Reality Company worked across games development and video effects to bring about a virtual reality immersive experience

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Businesses still figuring out digital transformation have already lost

  Accenture is calling it a post-digital era, one where businesses are already looking beyond digitisation to capitalise on new tech-driven opportunities