Qualcomm supports WPA3 wireless security
Most secure Wi-Fi network in the industry
Back at Mobile World Congress 2018, Qualcomm announced 2x2 802.11ax-ready solution for smartphones and a few days back it announced that this and the future wireless platform will support the new WPA3 security protocol.
Nvidia and AMD to suffer from crypto downturn
This quarter and going forward
A year ago we had a conversation with one of the knowledgeable people about graphics and back then we were warned that the Ethereum rise is most likely something that will backfire for graphics card manufacturers.
IBM expert explains why Facebook needs blockchain
It is a pretty good idea
Facebook has said that it is forming a new team to focus on blockchain technology, and IBM’s Blockchain expert says it is a good idea.
Alibaba gets Xilinx FPGA for its F3 cloud
Faster deep learning and IO
Back in October 2017 Alibaba, a $502,179 billion company announced that it had chosen Xilinx for next generation FPGA acceleration in their public cloud.
Non 5G Kirin 980 is Cortex A75 in 7nm
5G Focus on AI
Huawei has its Kirin chips for its phones and later this year it plans to launch its first 7nm TSMC based Kirin 980.
Android P is all about AI
New android first thoughts
Google launched its Android P beta and for the first time it made it available for nine phones and only two are the usual Google Pixel and Pixel 2 suspects.
Intel Xeon AWS AI can read 4X faster than Nvidia
Software optimizations to blame
There's an unexpected twist in the tangled tale as Intel managed to prove that for machine translation, which uses RNNs, the Intel Xeon Scalable processor outperforms NVidia V100 based systems by four times.
Snapdragon 730 and 710 details leaked
8nm and 10nm 2+6 cores
Qualcomm is expected to launch its 700 series rather soon and the latest leaks describe two rather robust products coming soon. The Snapdragon 700 series was launched by Cristiano Amon, the company’s president at the Mobile World Congress 2018 without going into any details.
Xiaomi to open retail store in Vienna
Coming to Italy and France in May
Xiaomi is definitely entering a few more European markets. Xiaomi confirmed that it will start officially offering its devices in Italy and France and it is about to open up a retail store in Vienna too.
Windows on Snapdragon SDK supports 64 bit
The next step for Windows 10 PC on ARM
Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced the Visual Studio 15.8 Preview 1 that contains an early preview of the SDK and the tools to allow you to create your own 64 bit ARM apps.