AMD Ryzen 4000 Laptops Will Allegedly Last up to 18 Hours By Lucian Armasu published 6 March 20 AMD's promised up to 18 hours of battery life with AMD Ryzen 4000 laptops.
Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts Meet Offer Free Features in Response to Coronavirus By Lucian Armasu published 4 March 20 Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts Meet will offer advanced features for free due to coronavirus.
Honeywell Promises World’s Best Quantum Computer by Mid-2020 By Lucian Armasu published 3 March 20 Honeywell announced its own quantum computer that it claims will be the most powerful in the world when it launches by mid-2020.
Coronavirus to Cause Foxconn Revenue Decline By Lucian Armasu published 3 March 20 Due to coronavirus, Foxconn is expecting some revenue decline in Q1 2020 in both its consumer electronics and enterprise businesses.
TSMC's New CoWoS Tech Doubles Memory Bandwidth By Lucian Armasu published 3 March 20 TSMC announced the new CoWoS chip packaging technology, developed in collaboration with Broadcom, that promises twice as much memory bandwidth and much higher memory capacity than the competition.
Report: Coronavirus Outbreak Caused 20% Production Drop for LCD and Other Panel Types By Lucian Armasu published 2 March 20 Panel makers have reportedly lowered their output by 20% in February due to the coronavirus outbreak.
AMD Supercomputers with 327,680 Zen 2 Cores Will Help NOAA Predict the Weather By Lucian Armasu published 26 February 20 The NOAA announced that it will install two new AMD Epyc-based supercomputers for weather forecasting.
Intel Says it Doubled Down on Fixing Security Bugs in 2019 By Lucian Armasu published 26 February 20 Intel released a report claiming it found almost two-thirds of related security bugs discovered in 2019, with most of the remaining found through its bug bounty program.
Kaspersky Blames Microsoft For Buggy Windows 10 Patch By Lucian Armasu published 19 February 20 Kaspersky Labs blamed Microsoft for the latest Windows 10 update breaking features on users' systems, after Microsoft revoked vulnerable UEFI signatures and forgot to tell Kaspersky about it.
US Navy Installing AMD Epyc, Nvidia Volta-Powered Supercomputer By Lucian Armasu published 18 February 20 The Navy will install a Cray supercomputer of 12.8 petaflops powered by AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs and destined for scientific and military research.
Peripherals In Dell, HP, Lenovo PCs Leave Millions Vulnerable To Attack, Research Finds By Lucian Armasu published 18 February 20 Eclypsium researchers have uncovered that millions of systems made by Dell, HP, Lenovo and others could be exploited and taken over because the peripheral firmware isn't signed and encrypted.
Report: Coronavirus Causing Struggles for Laptops, Semiconductors, Upcoming iPhone By Lucian Armasu published 14 February 20 According to a DigiTimes research, coronavirus outbreak will hurt the laptop, semiconductor, smartphone and display panel markets during H2.
US, EU Launch New Broad Inquiries Into Big Tech Companies By Lucian Armasu published 14 February 20 The U.S. FTC and the European Commission have started inquiries into big technology companies to learn how they've been abusing their market positions to kill off or hurt smaller players.
Amazon Strikes Back: Judge Blocks Microsoft’s JEDI Contract By Lucian Armasu published 14 February 20 After Amazon filed a a motion to halt Microsoft's work on the JEDI contract, a judge has issued an injunction against Microsoft.
US Government Uses Anti-Mafia Law To Charge Huawei By Lucian Armasu published 13 February 20 The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Huawei with racketeering, alleging that the company has misappropriated source code, trade secrets, and robotics technology from six American companies.
Intel Discovers Security Flaw in CSME Firmware By Lucian Armasu published 13 February 20 The flaw means vulnerability to privilege escalation, denial of service and information disclosure.
US Feds Say Huawei Is Using Telecom Backdoors it Made Mandatory By Lucian Armasu published 12 February 20 The U.S. government claimed to WSJ that it has evidence Huawei has backdoor access to U.S. telecom equipment.
Apple Quietly Joins FIDO Alliance Body for Passwordless Authentication By Lucian Armasu published 11 February 20 Apple's logo now appears on FIDO Alliance's list of board level members.
Gigabyte Driver Used to Disable Antivirus Software in RobbinHood Ransomware Scheme By Lucian Armasu published 7 February 20 According to cybersecurity firm Sophos, RobbinHood ransomware has been making use of legitimate, but vulnerable, Gigabyte drivers to infect PCs.
Windows 10 Support for Arm Chips Keeps Growing By Lucian Armasu published 6 February 20 A new Preview Build lets Arm64 devices running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise use Microsoft's hypervisor, Hyper-V.
Security Cameras Doing More Surveillance Than Expected due to Firmware Backdoor By Lucian Armasu published 5 February 20 Security camera firmware made by China-based Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology allows for remote access, security researchers discovered.
India Nearly Matches US Quantum Computing Research Budget By Lucian Armasu published 4 February 20 The Indian government announced a budget of $1.12 billion over the next five years for research in quantum technologies.
Adata Expects Memory Prices to Rise After Coronavirus Is Contained By Lucian Armasu published 4 February 20 Adata chairman Simon Chen believes that DRAM and NAND flash memory prices will rise by June if Coronavirus is contained.
Semiconductors Showed an Epic Slump in 2019 By Lucian Armasu published 4 February 20 The Semiconductor Industry Association said that last year's semiconductor revenues fell 12%, representing the biggest drop since 2001.
Intel Releases New Microcode Updates for old CPU Bugs By Lucian Armasu published 4 February 20 The update is available for both consumer and server versions of Windows 10 build 1903, but users need to install it manually.
