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Amazon AWS Puts Custom ARM Server Chip Into The Cloud

re:Invent 2018: AWS says the custom-built 'Graviton' chip, based on a design originally aimed at high-end smartphones, can slash costs…

6 years ago

US Senators Demand Probe Into ZTE Work On Venezuela ID Card

The Venezuelan 'homeland card' has been accused of being used as a tool for putting pressure on voters

6 years ago

IT Life: Labhesh Patel, Jumio

Labhesh Patel, chief technology officer and chief scientist at Jumio, talks about AI, the challenges of data protection and how…

6 years ago

New Fibre Breaks Petabit-Per-Second Data Barrier

The fibre, developed in Australia and Japan, is slightly narrower than standard fibre-optic cable but has 12 times the capacity

6 years ago

Amazon Selects New York, Virginia For HQ2

Go east! Amazon has headed to the US East coast and will split its second headquarters between two locations

6 years ago

Cisco To Help Cloud Customers Use Amazon Data Centres

Networking giant teams up with AWS to offer containers that can be used in internal and Amazon data centres

6 years ago

Samsung Sees Record Quarter But Predicts End Of Memory Chip Boom

Semiconductor sales helped Samsung reach record profits for the third quarter in spite of weak smartphone performance

6 years ago

Intel Pleases With Profit, Revenue Growth

Positive third quarter results for chip giant thanks to data centre growth and PC demand

6 years ago

Super Micro To Test For Chinese Spy Chips

World's largest motherboard maker is to review its hardware to check reports on Chinese spy chips

6 years ago

IT Life: André Stewart, Netskope

André Stewart, head of EMEA for Californian cloud security firm Netskope, talks about using artificial intelligence to fight cybercrime, the…

6 years ago

Broadcom Hits Out At ‘Fake’ Pentagon Memo Of CA Acquisition

Mischief making. Pentagon 'request' for national security review of Broadcom's CA acquisition is 'fake'

6 years ago

Microsoft Set To Win Secret Clearance Ahead Of Pentagon Cloud Bid

Microsoft is battling Amazon's AWS for the multi-billion-pound deal, after Google pulled out due to ethical concerns

6 years ago

US, UK Security Services Deny Knowledge Of China Server Hack Probe

NCSC and the US' Department of Homeland Security both say they support denials by Apple, Amazon and Super Micro as…

6 years ago

Xilinx Aims Ultra-Programmable Accelerators At AI, 5G Workloads

Xilinx is looking to take large-scale, cutting-edge workloads to the next level with its upcoming family of programmable hardware accelerators

6 years ago

Apple, Amazon Deny Reported Chinese Server Hack

China is accused of implanting hardware in sensitive servers during the manufacturing process — a feat security experts consider to…

6 years ago

Instagram Back Online After Worldwide Outage

Normal service resumed after brief worldwide outage for the photo-sharing service

6 years ago

Google Expands Chilean Data Centre With $140m Investment

Data centre footprint to be expanded in South American country thanks to availability of solar power

6 years ago

Google Signs Wind Farm Deals To Power Finnish Data Centre

The 10-year deals include buying the entire output from a planned wind farm in western Finland, as corporate demand for…

6 years ago

New Cisco UCS Server Takes Aim At AI With Latest Nvidia GPUs

Nvidia's graphics processing chips can drastically reduce the time needed to train deep learning models, Cisco says

6 years ago

Jack Ma To Hand Over Alibaba Reins Next Year

The Alibaba co-founder, a former English teacher with no technical background, said he is stepping down so that he can…

6 years ago

Microsoft Warns EU Copyright Proposal Could Stunt Digital Growth

The Windows giant said data-mining limitations could harm economic development and stop Europe from catching up with AI and data…

6 years ago

Amazon Joins Apple After It Reaches $1 Trillion Value

Former bookseller briefly crosses $1 billion market valuation threshold as broadening portfolio drives growth

6 years ago

Google Hands Kubernetes Reins Over To Community

The search giant, which has developed Kubernetes since 2014, is also donating £7m in cloud credits to help defray infrastructure…

6 years ago

VMworld: AMD Introduces Radeon Pro V340 For High-Density Data Centres

The graphics board includes two Vega graphics chips along with enough memory to carry out heavy-duty remote workloads for up…

6 years ago

Foreign Firms Could Share Data Storage Costs Under Proposed Russian Law

The legislation would seek to force companies such as Google and Facebook to help pay the massive costs brought in…

6 years ago

Intel CPUs At Risk From Foreshadow Flaw

Not again. Intel rocked by another data stealing vulnerability that affects the secure CPU enclave

6 years ago

New Australian Law Requires Tech Firms To Help Cops Crack Encryption

The newly proposed measures would levy fines of up to £6m for organisations that fail to comply

6 years ago

Google Negotiates Deals For China Cloud Services – Report

Fresh attempt to re-enter Chinese market as US search engine reportedly holds talks with local cloud firms

6 years ago

Intel Delays 10nm ‘Cannon Lake’ Processors To Late 2019

Four years late. Fresh delay for next generation Cannon Lake processors, with mainstream release now only expected in late 2019

6 years ago