Intel's Bob Swan secretly wants the CEO job
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 October 2018 21:19

Intel's Bob Swan secretly wants the CEO job


Exclusive: Murthy a serious candidate too

Well informed sources close to the matter have confirmed that despite publicly denying it, Bob Swan of Intel secretly wants the CEO job. The only other serious candidate within Intel is ex-Qualcomm's  Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture & Client Group, and chief engineering officer at Intel.

Xilinx announced PCIe Alveo AI accelerator
Published in AI
Wednesday, 03 October 2018 19:55

Xilinx announced PCIe Alveo AI accelerator


Data center beat Nvidia Volta on latency and inference  

The Xilinx CEO has just introduced a new product category called the Alveo PCIe based hardware accelerator that will challenge machine learning data center compute accelerators. It has dramatically better latency compared to Nvidia or AMD's GPU based solution, it's claimed.

AMD 30 percent market gain won’t happen
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 October 2018 19:21

AMD 30 percent market gain won’t happen


Now Wall Street realizes

AMD is the second best x86 maker out of two, and this is how things will remain. The recent rumors and prediction by fellow analysts and journalists that AMD can win up to a third of the market is,  pure and simple, science fiction.

Xilinx codename Everest is Versal
Published in AI
Tuesday, 02 October 2018 17:58

Xilinx codename Everest is Versal


Swiss knife for heterogeneous AI, cloud, 5G

The wait is finally over, what Victor Peng the CEO of Xilinx announced as the Everest, will now be branded as the Versal. This is shaping up to look like the Swiss knife of heterogeneous computing, addressing some key markets including AI, cloud, network infrastructure, 5G, automotive, and much more.

Elon Musk fired as chairman of Tesla
Published in Transportation
Sunday, 30 September 2018 09:44

Elon Musk fired as chairman of Tesla


By SEC, still remains the CEO

Twitter is a dangerous tool and there is no going back when you are followed by millions. Due to his tweet about Tesla becoming a private company, after perhaps an ill-judged tweet, Tesla and Elon have to split a $40 million fine and Elon has to resign as chairman of the board within 60 days.

Microsoft, IBM join affordable cloud alliance
Published in Cloud
Friday, 28 September 2018 12:13

Microsoft, IBM join affordable cloud alliance


Cloudflare forms glorious Bandwidth alliance

Cloudflare has brought together Microsoft, IBM, Digital Ocean, Automattic and Backblaze under the Bandwidth Alliance.

IBM cloud looks for AI bias
Published in AI
Friday, 28 September 2018 11:24

IBM cloud looks for AI bias


More transparency

IBM is now offering a cloud-based service designed to detect bias in AI and bring transparency to how AI-powered systems make decisions.

Waze and Google maps are now on Apple Car
Published in Transportation
Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:57

Waze and Google maps are now on Apple Car


Take it for a spin

The Apple car platform for iPhone users just got two great navigation alternatives to Apple maps. First, Google released an update for maps for OS 12 users and now Waze has followed.

OnePlus 6 gets Android 9
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 24 September 2018 09:41

OnePlus 6 gets Android 9


New look and features

Android P or Android 9 has officially popped up on OnePlus 6 and proved that there might be a home for Android segmentation after all, at least in the super high end.

iPhone XS has Intel modem inside
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 24 September 2018 09:34

iPhone XS has Intel modem inside


L shaped battery phone starting at 1.149 € / $999+ tax / £999

iPhone XS and XS Max have started reaching their early adaptors, and at the same time iFixit managed to dismantle it and tell us which chips are inside of the precious overpriced phone.