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Chips and processor hardware
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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
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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
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December 19, 2017
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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
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November 29, 2017
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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
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November 28, 2017
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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
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November 03, 2017
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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
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October 24, 2017
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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
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October 17, 2017
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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
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October 11, 2017
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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
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September 28, 2017
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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
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August 16, 2017
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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
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August 15, 2017
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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
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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
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July 05, 2017
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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
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June 21, 2017
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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