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• 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

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Microsoft predicts five-year wait for quantum computing in Azure

  Industry experts predict it will take 10 years for quantum computing to become a reality, but Microsoft believes it has the research edge, with systems, software and technology to get there in five

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  ARM aims to boost physical security of IoT

  Chipmaker ARM announces microprocessor aimed at improving the physical security capabilities of devices making up the internet of things

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Australia government earmarks A$70m to refresh supercomputers

  The investment will fund replacements for two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in an effort to bolster Australia’s research capabilities

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  AI is renewing interest in high-performance computing

  Growing adoption of artificial intelligence is spurring interest in high-performance computing beyond research institutions

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  US tax cuts and dollar’s decline propel datacentre spending

  Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows the strongest growth in IT spending, which it expects to total $3.7tn in 2018, up 6.2% from 2017

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Only newer systems will get Intel firmware updates for Spectre chip flaw

  Intel will not issue patches for legacy processors, so older systems and legacy embedded applications will remain vulnerable to Spectre exploits

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Arm and Nvidia collaborate on internet of things intelligence

  A collaboration between Arm and Nvidia looks to provide deep learning and artificial intelligence on internet-connected devices

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  BlackBerry QNX to power Jaguar Land Rover electronic controls

  BlackBerry’s embedded operating system and cryptography platform will be used to power the carmaker’s next-generation connected and autonomous cars

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Boom expected in processor attacks

  Sonicwall's latest research shows worrying signs that the processor flaws revealed at the start of 2018 are set to dominate IT security

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Researchers accused of irresponsible disclosure of AMD chip flaws

  Israel-based researchers have been accused of irresponsible disclosure for going public with more than a dozen security flaws discovered in AMD processors

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Security researchers demonstrate ransomware attack on robots

  Researchers have carried out a ransomware attack on robots to show that such attacks are possible and should be guarded against

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Prepare for Y2K style Meltdown strategy

  The days of fixing the date bug in legacy systems may be long gone, but IT now has as much of an effort mitigating the Spectre/Meltdown processor flaw

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  Dell EMC’s IoT revenue in APAC surpasses $1bn

  The milestone in Dell EMC’s internet of things revenue underscores the APAC region’s rapid uptake of sensors and other IoT devices in industries and smart city projects

• February 09, 2018 09 Feb'18

  Can we trust Intel Inside to mean secure computing?

  Intel has just released an updated patch after its previous update failed spectacularly. Now its CEO is promising security assurance

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Leak confirms CEO dumped Intel shares after Meltdown and Spectre processor flaw

  Leaked document show that Intel’s CEO sold his shares the very day the company told hardware makers of its processor flaw

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Hours lost on patching Meltdown and Spectre flaw

  IT administrators have already lost hours installing the processor patch from Intel, which causes PCs to lock up and systems to crash and slow down

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Intel recalls botched Spectre fix

  The inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds, vents his frustration and suggests Intel has no plans to fix Spectre flaw

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre: to patch or not to patch

  As IT recoils from the Spectre and Meltdown chip exploits, companies face patches that are incompatible, leading to crashes, reduced performance and lock-ups

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Intel makes security-first pledge

  As it scrambles to deal with the Meltdown and Spectre processor exploits, Intel has made a series of security commitments

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  F-Secure highlights another critical Intel security issue

  As Intel scrambles to issue security updates to address the Meltdown and Spectre exploits, researchers have highlighted another, unrelated, critical security issue that could affect millions of corporate laptops

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Spectre: How reverse-engineering a microprocessor revealed a fundamental flaw

  Researchers have published their work on Spectre, a flaw that affects every modern CPU. We find out what went wrong from one of the engineers

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Intel to set up new group to focus on hardware security

  Chip maker is reportedly planning to form a new group to focus on hardware security as it scrambles to limit the impact of recently discovered security flaws in chip designs

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 PC stories of 2017

  It has been a good year for the PC business, which is starting to show signs of growth. From an end-user perspective, 2017 is also the year of new user interfaces

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  As Meg Whitman steps down, HPE fleshes out hybrid ambitions

  Hybrid IT represents a $100bn business, and is a segment HPE has set its sights on

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  HPE Superdome Flex in-memory supports Big Bang research

  Stephen Hawkin’s Cosmos research group takes delivery of a Superdome HPC to enable it to test theoretical models of the Big Bang

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  How soon will we be driving fully autonomous cars?

  Nvidia sets out vision for driverless cars as its new Pegasus processor promises to support “level 5” autonomy

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  Inside Australia’s supercomputing journey

  The country’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation has upgraded its high performance computing infrastructure to keep pace with global research

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  Qualcomm successfully achieves first 5G data connection

  Mobile chipset supplier Qualcomm claims it has achieved a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Nvidia unveils ‘world’s first’ AI computer chip for fully autonomous vehicles

  Chip maker Nvidia announces an artificial intelligence system designed to support the greater computing workloads of future driverless cars

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  Hertfordshire pilots NHS Digital’s Raspberry Pi telehealth kit

  Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust becomes first healthcare provider to trial open source telehealth system originally developed by NHS Digital using Raspberry Pi devices

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  Fiat joins BMW's autonomous car platform initiative

  Car makers Fiat and BMW are working in collaboration with Intel and Mobileye to develop a scalable platform for self-driving vehicles

• August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17

  How HPE is climbing the supercomputer league to reach exascale performance

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently joined a project to develop exascale computing for the US Department of Energy. We assess the implications

• July 28, 2017 28 Jul'17

  Intel reports record second quarter

  Intel chief claims to have raised the bar on performance and predicts record year for the chip maker after record second-quarter revenue

• July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17

  Atos targets universities and research centres with quantum computing simulator

  Atos has made a quantum computing simulator available for sale so that organisations can test out the algorithms of the future

• June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17

  AMD fleshes out EPYC datacentre server processor strategy

  AMD is preparing to go head-to-head once more with Intel in the datacentre, with the release of its EPYC server processor family

• May 23, 2017 23 May'17

  Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

  Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  HPE increases ‘The Machine’ memory pool 20-fold

  The Machine is HPE’s proof-of-concept next-generation hardware architecture that aims to overcome the limits of today’s IT by using large memory arrays

• May 02, 2017 02 May'17

  Intel urges business to patch critical remote-execution flaw

  Intel advises business customers to apply a security update for some versions of its administration firmware for vPro processors to fix a remote execution flaw

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  Intel reports record first-quarter revenue

  Company says growing demand for high-performance computing is driving growth for the business

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators

  Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  IBM readies quantum computing as a service

  A universal quantum computer, available through the cloud, offers the potential for researchers and enterprises to tackle computationally impossible problems

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  Microsoft PCs get Brexit-fuelled price increase

  Microsoft has raised the price of its Surface PCs by as much as 15% in the UK because of the falling value of the pound since the country voted to leave the EU

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

  5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks

• January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17

  Cloud gives financial boost to Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

  Cloud computing is making significant contributions to driving the revenues for companies in the technology sector, according to quarterly results posted by Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

• January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17

  Executive interview: Kirk Bresniker, chief architect, HPE

  HPE has developed a concept computing architecture which it says will power future generations of applications. We find out how it will change IT

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Private and public cloud fuelled Emea infrastructure sales in Q3, shows IDC data

  Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data

• January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17

  Mont-Blanc HPC project alpha tests Cavium ARM module

  The consortium is working on building low-powered HPC based on 64-bit ARM chips

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  Blackberry changes tack to secure enterprise internet of things

  After dropping devices to concentrate on mobile device management, Blackberry is poised to take on IoT security under John Chen’s leadership

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  HPE demos memory-driven architecture for next-generation IT

  HPE aims to push the limits of computing by moving the memory bottleneck it claims is limiting the performance of application software

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Nand flash shortage to push up solid-state drive prices

  Flash storage chip supply is being squeezed by smartphone manufacturers’ demand, increased notebook and datacentre hardware demand, and difficulties switching to 3D Nand production

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  PC market in longest period of decline since records began, says Gartner

  PC shipments across the globe enter an unprecedented period of decline, Gartner reveals

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  How software is reshaping the car industry

  Car firms are becoming more tech savvy, but connected cars open up a whole new set of challenges

• September 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  Microsoft preps datacentres for AI revolution through deployment of reprogrammable chips

  Microsoft claims field programmable gate array chips are now live in Azure datacentres in 15 countries, as it future-proofs its infrastructure for the rise of big data applications

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  How HomeServe Labs plans to use the IoT to shake up the insurance business

  Home maintenance services provider HomeServe grows its internet of things startup internally, and is now targeting the insurance industry with a leak detection system

• August 19, 2016 19 Aug'16

  Intel sees 5G networks as opportunity to sell more server chips

  Intel focuses on the back-end infrastructure behind upcoming 5G networks as it sees an opportunity for its processors and other datacentre technology

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Intel Developer Forum: Silicon Photonics boosts datacentre connectivity

  Microsoft Azure datacentres increase connectivity to 100Gbps thanks to Silicon Photonics interconnect

• August 17, 2016 17 Aug'16

  Intel Developer Forum: Out of the server room and onto smart devices

  Augmented reality and building intelligence into IoT endpoints were among the highlights at Intel’s annual conference

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Intel to acquire AI firm Nervana Systems

  Chip maker Intel is to acquire artificial intelligence firm Nervana Systems in a bid to take AI to the next level based on its Xeon and Phi processors

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  ARM expands IoT security team

  Chip maker continues to boost its internet of things security capabilties by expanding its Israeli engineering team

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Smartphone sales boost Samsung’s second quarter

  Samsung has reported a 27% rise in operating profit for its mobile division in the second quarter, driven by strong demand for Galaxy smartphones, which the company expects to continue

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Intel’s cloud and IoT-focused businesses deliver disappointing growth

  Intel says its transformation to focus on cloud and IoT is on track, but these key business areas fail to deliver as much growth as expected

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Japanese tech firm to acquire UK chipmaker ARM

  Japanese technology firm SoftBank Group is to acquire Cambridge-based ARM Holdings to capitalise on the UK firm's IP in chipsets for smartphones and IoT devices

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  HPE wins $3bn in damages from Oracle

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won $3bn in damages after a five-year legal battle with Oracle over its decision to stop supporting its database on Itanium-based servers

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Intel considers sale of security business

  Intel is reportedly considering the sale of its security business to generate capital as the company restructures

• June 03, 2016 03 Jun'16

  HPE demands $3bn from Oracle over dropped Itanium database support

  The long-running dispute finally enters the courts, but whose fault is it really that organisations are buying fewer high-end HPE servers? Moreover, why are two big players beating each other up over a fast-disappearing market?

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  Nike and BMW pilot HP Inc's first 3D printer

  HP Inc rolls out its first 3D printer, with hopes that it will revolutionise manufacturing

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  IBM develops quantum as a service

  IBM starts the ball rolling on what it would mean to program a universal quantum computer

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  Intel to cut workforce despite strong Q1 results

  Intel says strong first quarter results show that its business transformation is working, but it also means cutting 11% of the global workforce

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices

  The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  Intel expands Xeon processor family to help enterprises build software-defined clouds

  Chip manufacturer Intel unveils products and customer use cases in support of its software-defined infrastructure push

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  Intel offers enterprises helping hand in making private clouds work for them

  Chip manufacturer Intel sets out plans to help the enterprise deploy tens of thousands of cloud environments

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Hackers to probe engine control units amid emissions scandal

  ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Intel's former chief Andy Grove dies, aged 79

  Andy Grove, Intel’s former chairman who helped the company make the change from memory chips to processors, passes away at the age of 79

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Internet of things providers set to battle over platform dominance

  The need for interoperability will lead to rival internet of things (IoT) standards and ecosystems – which could put the brake on adoption

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Samsung upbeat despite profit slump

  Samsung says that it will continue to plug away at diversifying and reinforcing its business in a bid to return to profitable growth

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  PCs will redefine the workspace

  The PC market has been in decline since 2012, thanks in part to the popularity of tablets – but, with Windows 10, the PC is set for a comeback

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Intel share price drops despite strong results

  Despite growth in Intel's key datacentre and IoT businesses, investors remain concerned by falls in its core PC chip business amid market declines

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Intel acquires German drone maker Ascending Technologies

  Intel adds to previous strategic investments in drone technology to bolster its competitive position in the drone chip market

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Intel revises down growth forecast for datacentre business division

  Chipmaker Intel blames the weakening macroeconomic situation – with continued delays in hardware refresh cycles – in its datacentre business forecast revision

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

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  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Toshiba share price up despite £208m loss

  Toshiba investors are said to be relieved that, by meeting the latest deadline to post its results, the company has avoided the risk of delisting