Chips and Components
Intel to phase out Itanium by mid-2021
Intel to take last orders for unloved Itanium in December 2020 and ship the last one by mid-2021
Intel names Robert Swan as new CEO
CFO Swan had been interim CEO of Intel for more than six months while the company searched for a replacement to Brian Krzanich
Intel: On-premise server demand declines as cloud booms
Chip shortage to continue during 2019 as Intel prioritises high-end server demand for cloud computing
Intel plans shift to 7nm with new plant in Oregon as it prepare to unveil new CEO
Work on new plant to begin as early as June 2019 while new CEO could be announced on Thursday
PC market recovery goes into reverse due to Intel chip shortage
Worldwide PC sales fall by 4.3 per cent in the fourth quarter as supply issues stymie demand
AMD unveils 7nm Radeon VII graphics card at CES 2019
CEO Lisa Su uses CES 2019 keynote to reveal details on second generation Vega architecture GPUs
AMD Ryzen and Threadripper news: Russian retailer leaks new Ryzen CPU specs
16-core Ryzen 9 planned alongside Ryzen 7 with boost clock of 5GHz
AMD Ryzen latest news: Leak by Russian retailer hints at 4.7GHz 16-core Ryzen 9
And the 12 core Ryzen 7 3700X clocking at 5GHz sounds pretty tasty, too
Intel unveils Sunny Cove 10nm architecture slated for 2019 - late 2019
Sunny Cove architecture will sit at heart of 10nm Core and Xeon Intel CPUs
AMD unveils 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture for its future family of processors
Represents a significant step in the architecture's timeline
Portsmash multi-threading vulnerability found in Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors
Researchers in Finland and Cuba claim that SMT can be exploited to leak data
AMD Radeon RX 590 launch set for 15 November
Competitive price mooted for Nvidia GTX 1060-beating AMD Radeon RX 590
US government sanctions Chinese chip maker Fujian Jinhua over claims of intellectual property theft
China urges Trump's government to "stop its wrong actions" following US embargo on Chinese firm accused of stealing Micron Technology IP
Qualcomm claims $7bn in royalties from Apple
Qualcomm's claims follow on from 2017 Apple patent demand
AMD Navi GPU news: AMD already testing 7nm Navi graphics cards in the labs
Good news on Navi should outweigh the bad as graphics card market returns to normal following crypto-currency bust
Qualcomm 675 SoC set to bring high-end features to mid-range smartphones
Freshly launched 11nm Qualcomm silicon will come with Adreno 612 GPU
Report claiming that Intel has 'pulled the plug' on 10nm development rejected by chip giant
Intel claims that 10nm parts will be out in volume by mid-2019
Intel rejects media report suggesting that it has 'pulled the plug' on its 10nm process
'We are making good progress on 10nm,' claims Intel
Scientists claim to prove the true benefits of quantum computing for the first time
IBM and Technical University of Munich team demonstrate how Shor's algorithm, which can't be cracked by conventional computers, can be solved quickly with quantum computing
'No evidence' of Chinese state attack on IT hardware supply-chain, says US director of national intelligence Dan Coats
Bloomberg claim that Chinese intelligence agents compromised motherboards questioned by US intelligence head
Carbon fibres could work as battery electrodes in cars and planes, claim researchers
Research opens up new possibilities for structural batteries, where the carbon fibre forms part of the energy system
Apple Macs running on Apple ARM CPUs coming in 2020
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple Macs on Apple chips are coming in 2020, with Apple's self-driving electric car coming by 2025
ARM to go beyond mobile with Neoverse processor family
ARM aims at everything from IoT devices to the data centre
MIT engineers create material that reacts with CO2 to grow, strengthen and repair itself
New material uses carbon dioxide from the air to repair and reinforce itself