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Arm goes off road... map: Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph
Meanwhile, A78, Mali-G78 and Ethos-N78 announced, too → Read More
We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most
Coronavirus focused minds on desktop kit, networking, security, cloud, Register reader survey finds → Read More
Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors
10th-generation Core series lands with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max → Read More
Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints
Who said open-source alternatives? Haha, no one here said it, you must have imagined it → Read More
Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking
And few worried about security – are they right? → Read More
Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell
Plus: Intel ditches forthcoming Cooper Lake single, dual-socket 14nm Xeons from its roadmap → Read More
Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it
Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto → Read More
Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra
Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC → Read More
You've put up with us banging on about IT for years. Now it's your turn. Grab a mic and join us on The Register's podcast
We want to share your hard-won advice and knowledge with the rest of world → Read More
Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown
A US judge on Friday tripled the damages Quanta Storage owes HP Inc to $439m for unlawfully hiking the price of optical disc drives. In October last year, a Texas jury awarded the American PC and printers giant a $176m windfall, footed by Quanta Storage for conspiring with rival manufacturers to inflate the price of optical drives sold to HP. Hitachi-LG, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, and a few other… → Read More
Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it
Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers → Read More
Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021
CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry → Read More
'Not productive for our business'... Michael Dell urges end to US-China tariff tit-for-tat spat
CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes → Read More
Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes?
Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news → Read More
IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too
Big Blue says it will open OpenPower, power next-gen chips in China, er, anywhere → Read More
Behold, the quantum lawsuit in which both sides claim victory: Rimini St fails to bag $30m refund from Oracle
Order banning further copyright infringement stays, as does Big Red's legal bill → Read More
'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha
ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal → Read More
Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up
Dell-owned VMware is in talks to acquire Dell-owned Pivotal Software, the hypervisor giant announced Wednesday. In a filing to America's financial watchdog, the SEC, the boards of directors of VMware and Pivotal said they "are proceeding to negotiate definitive agreements with respect to a transaction to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of Pivotal for cash at a per… → Read More
Look at me. Look at me. I'm the El Capitan now: Cray to build US govt's $600m cray-cray exascale nuke app super
1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023 → Read More
Xilinx FPGA. Nvidia GPU storage. 56-core Intel Xeons versus AMD next-gen Epyc. It's all kicking off in data-center world
* Xilinx has added the U50 card to its Alveo family of data-center accelerators. The 75W U50, a single-slot, half-height, half-length PCIe 4.0 device, is designed to be dropped into servers to speed up, in hardware, specific workloads offloaded by the host's general-purpose processors. Under the hood, the U50 features an UltraScale+ FPGA, 8GB of 460GB/s high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), 100GbE… → Read More