PC sales start to increase
Server sales are still down
Number crunchers at Jon Peddie Research (JPR) are reporting that the client PC CPU market has hit 62 million units in the first quarter of 2024, which is a 33 per cent jump from last year.
Telefonica Germany moves 5G customers to AWS
A bit of network lebensraum
Telefonica Germany is set to shift a million of its 5G customers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud later this month, the company chiefs have told Reuters. The American online shop is making a gutsy play to muscle into the global telecoms scene.
Tame Apple Press too moist over Apple’s latest chip
Desperate to believe anything
The Tame Apple Press is getting rather too excited about Jobs’ Mob’s latest M4 processor, which has been put under the bonnet of its new iPad Pro refresh.
The AI of today will be a joke in a year’s time
What we have now is stupid and unreliable
OpenAI's top dog, Brad Lightcap, has been dishing out gossip about the future of talkative ChatGPT bots and says that what we see now will be a joke in a year’s time.
US government about to build an AI supercomputer
Nvidia-based machine will run government departments
The Pentagon's go-to tech whizzes at MITRE are splashing out a whopping $20 million (€18.6 million) on a supercomputer with Nvidia's most brainy chips to give Uncle Sam's AI a turbo boost.
US blocks companies from selling chips to Huawei.
Tightens restrictions
Uncle Sam's not letting Huawei get its mitts on any semiconductors from Qualcomm and Intel and is trying to put a spanner in the works for Huawei's phone and laptop chip supply.
Microsoft makes changes to task manager
RAM gets a rethink
Software King of the World Microsoft is shaking things up in the Task Manager world.
Oracle of Omaha dumps some of his Apple shares
Buffet sees trouble ahead.
The Tame Apple Press is trying to spin the news that Warren Buffet, one of Jobs’ Mob’s keenest and most knowledgeable investors, has just dumped a large amount of the stock.
TSMC packaging booked out
We can’t fit you in for a couple of years
TSMC has declared that its sophisticated packaging capacity is booked out for two years after Nvidia, AMD, and Guanghuida have secured its state-of-the-art packaging technologies for their high-performance computing projects.
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D spotted with double the V-Cache
192MB of V-Cache
There has been a sighting of a Zen 4 CPU variant boasting a whopping 192MB of L3 cache—double the V-Cache of existing models.