
Big Blue back on track
Sales growth after nearly six years
The ever shrinking Big Blue’s moves to cloud and security services helped it beat analysts’ quarterly revenue estimates, and the technology major hinted at sales growth after nearly six years of declines.

Moore's Law is murdered, claims Nvidia boss
GPU computing did it in the library with the candlestick
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has said that GPU computing following the decline of the CPU era has killed off Moore's Law.

Big US corporations rule AI development
Amazon, eBay, IBM, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, what could go wrong?
Just to prove you have absolutely nothing to worry about from AI, an outfit called Netscribes has worked out that the entire market is sewn up by big US corporations.

Rowhammer comes to MLC NAND flash
Holy grail for hackers
Two years after Google showed how Rowhammer attacks could flip dynamic random access memory (DRAM) bits to induce those memory cells to change their state, IBM has shown how it can target MLC NAND flash memory.

Big Blue has a deep learning breakthough
Slashes processing time
Big Blue Boffins claim to have developed technology that dramatically cuts the time it takes to crunch massive amounts of data and then come up with useful insights.

IBM and Sony spruce up magnetic tape
Storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch
IBM and Sony boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a new magnetic tape system capable of storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch.

IBM, GlobalFoundries and Samsung come up with 5nm process
Will cost about the same as 10nm
IBM, GlobalFoundries (GloFo), and Samsung said yesterday that they have found a way to make 5nm transistors, which may well enable them to pack 30 billion switches onto a microprocessor chip.

New OS/2 Warp is out
A ghost in the machine
The long-awaited modern OS/2 distribution from Arca Noae has been released.

Buffet finally gives up on Big Blue
Sells a third of his shares
After years of justifying a big investment in IBM, Warren Buffet has finally flogged off a third of his shares.

OS/2 Warp version finally found
Only 25 years too late from when Microsoft and IBM still loved each other
A version of OS/2 2.0 which went missing for 25 years has finally turned up.