Intel spends $2 billion a year on modems
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 05 November 2018 08:48

Intel spends $2 billion a year on modems


Industry sources

Each year Intel invests some $2 billon to please one large modem customer - Apple - and the level of investment will likely increase in the near 5G future.

Red Hat killing off KDE
Published in News
Friday, 02 November 2018 12:12

Red Hat killing off KDE


News buried as GNOMEs triumph

Red Hat appears to have used the news of its takeover by IBM to bury the news that it was killing off KDE.

Big Blue buys Red Hat
Published in News
Monday, 29 October 2018 12:09

Big Blue buys Red Hat


$34 billion deal

IBM is acquiring software maker Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion, the companies said Sunday.

IBM turns Pac Man vegan
Published in AI
Monday, 29 October 2018 10:40

IBM turns Pac Man vegan


Cutting edge AI at work

Researchers working for Big Blue have been working out a way of making Pac Man more ethical using AI.

Travelport expands IBM partnership
Published in Cloud
Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:47

Travelport expands IBM partnership


Bringing in blockchain and AI

UK-based travel commerce platform Travelport  is expanding its IBM partnership to roll out blockchain and AI technology.

Qualcomm showcases video over 5G NR
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 23 October 2018 03:55

Qualcomm showcases video over 5G NR


Live X50 and next gen chipset with Ericsson  

Qualcomm  showcased 5G with Ericsson with real 5G over the Band 7 spectrum playing  video. This is the first public demonstration and Cristiano Amon said that this is the unannounced chipset.

ARM CEO sees the fifth wave of computing
Published in News
Friday, 19 October 2018 11:11

ARM CEO sees the fifth wave of computing


5G, big data and processing

Simon Seagers, ARM’s CEO talked about the 5th wave of computing and that is obviously the one that is coming after the last big leap that brought us closer to mobile and cloud mix.

Fab manufacturing equipment gets created for ARM first
Published in PC Hardware


35 million ARM vs 1.6 million "other“ wafers

There is one big change that is happening in the manufacturing equipment industry and ARM used its ARMTechCon to educate us about the big change. Drew Henry, SVP of infrastructure at ARM, pointed out in its presentation that ARM silicon wafer production ends up in 35 million wafers.

ARM ACPC 2020 to be 2.5x times faster
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 19 October 2018 10:52

ARM ACPC 2020 to be 2.5x times faster


Compared to Cortex A75 Spectint

ARM has shared part of the Always connected PC roadmap that is currently only executed by Qualcomm Snapdragon, and also showed some expected performance projections of the 7nm and 5nm parts.

Next gen 2019 Snapdragon PC goes multi OS
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 19 October 2018 10:41

Next gen 2019 Snapdragon PC goes multi OS


Chrome to join Windows 10

Miguel Nunes, a senior director of product management at Qualcomm, took the stage at one of the ARM TechCon presentations and shared details about the 2019 always connected Snapdragon PC. ACPC stands for Always connected PC.