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Chips and processor hardware
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July 03, 2019
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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
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June 17, 2019
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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
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June 14, 2019
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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
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June 13, 2019
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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
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May 01, 2019
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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
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April 17, 2019
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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
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April 17, 2019
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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
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April 04, 2019
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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
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March 12, 2019
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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
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February 20, 2019
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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
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February 07, 2019
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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
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January 28, 2019
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Jan'19
Government to pump £70m into ‘designing out’ cyber threats
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund cash to be used for designing and developing more secure hardware in a bid to eradicate cyber threats
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January 09, 2019
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Jan'19
Mercedes-Benz collaborates with Nvidia on in-car supercomputer
Partners plan to work on an in-car computer for autonomous driving, and to replace existing in-car systems
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January 08, 2019
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Jan'19
Exxon joins IBM’s quantum committee as Q System One goes commercial
The Q System One is said to be the world’s first commercial quantum computer. ExxonMobil and CERN hope to exploit IBM’s latest tech
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January 07, 2019
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Jan'19
Huawei debuts Arm-based chip, eyes broader server market
Huawei’s Kunpeng 920 processor is geared towards big data and infrastructure applications, marking its foray into Arm-based servers that are set to change the dynamics of the datacentre market
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January 03, 2019
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Jan'19
Intel admits chip security has a long way to go
A year ago, the world came to realise how a side-loading attack could compromise a microprocessor. Intel has been working hard to make fixes easier
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November 28, 2018
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Nov'18
HPE shows off first fruits of $4bn edge computing investment
Tech supplier has beefed up its Edgeline portfolio with new hardware and software offerings to make it easier to manage edge devices, applications and data
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November 26, 2018
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Nov'18
China leapfrogs US in supercomputer deployments
China has more than twice the number of supercomputers than the US, and it is finding a ready market for its Lenovo supercomputers among US tech companies in Ireland, the latest top 500 supercomputer list reveals
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November 14, 2018
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Nov'18
OpenStack Foundation will tackle infrastructure barriers to enterprise AI adoption
OpenStack supporting community will help enterprises to overcome infrastructure barriers to adopting artificial intelligence technologies in 2019 as demand for GPU and FPGA-based set-ups grows
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November 13, 2018
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Nov'18
Thailand’s Democrat Party holds election with blockchain
The Zcoin blockchain was used to store file hashes of voting data and identities of voting members of Thailand’s main opposition party
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November 09, 2018
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Nov'18
Post-quantum cryptography a major challenge, says expert
The crypto wars are just beginning and open systems are key to improved security in future, says cryptography expert
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October 04, 2018
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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
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September 24, 2018
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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
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September 21, 2018
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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
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September 13, 2018
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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
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August 28, 2018
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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
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August 15, 2018
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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
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August 06, 2018
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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
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August 03, 2018
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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
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July 18, 2018
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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
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July 17, 2018
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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
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June 28, 2018
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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
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June 13, 2018
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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
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June 06, 2018
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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
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May 29, 2018
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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
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May 22, 2018
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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
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May 09, 2018
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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
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May 02, 2018
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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
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April 30, 2018
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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
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April 23, 2018
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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
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April 23, 2018
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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
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April 09, 2018
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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
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April 05, 2018
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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
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March 28, 2018
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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
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March 22, 2018
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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
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March 20, 2018
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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
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March 14, 2018
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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
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March 09, 2018
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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
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February 19, 2018
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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
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February 15, 2018
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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