Intel beats Earnings Expectations for Q1, driven by the biggest-ever quarterly jump in its data centre business
• 7 years agoIntel said fresh demand for applications such as artificial intelligence fuelled the data centre business.
Mobileye's CEO claims its computer vision system would have detected the pedestrian killed in Arizona by Uber's self-driving car
• 7 years agoUber has not said whether the sensors in its self-driving vehicle detected the cyclist in the seconds before the accident.
US tech firms succeed in bringing changes to the bill which restricted Chinese investment in US technology industry
• 7 years agoThe bills are aimed at reining in China’s acquisition of US high tech knowledge even as China has sought to focus on production of higher-value goods.
Intel has fixed Meltdown and Spectre in the 8th generation Xeon and Core processors, to ship the fixed chips in second half of 2018
• 7 years agoThe shipment of Intel chips meant for fixing Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities get delayed and won't be shipped in early 2018.
Major US automakers urge Senate to take up stalled bill aimed at speeding up deployment and testing of self-driving cars
• 7 years agoThe Senate bill would allow automakers to each sell up to 80,000 self-driving vehicles annually within three years.
Intel faces 32 lawsuits over recently-disclosed Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws
• 7 years agoIntel said in a regulatory filing it was not able to estimate the potential losses that may arise out of the lawsuits.
AMD reports 60 percent growth in sales Q4 FY17; sales of graphics and server processors saw an uptick
• 7 years agoAMD said sales in its graphics and computing business rose 60 percent year-over-year to $958 million in the quarter ended 30 December.
Intel is advising its users to not install the buggy security patches of Meltdown and Spectre security flaws
Ians • 7 years ago"Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a 'bug' or a 'flaw' and are unique to Intel products are incorrect," Intel was quoted as saying.
Microsoft says security software patches for Spectre and Meltdown are slowing down PCs and servers
Ians • 7 years agoMicrosoft also said that security updates froze some computers using chipsets from Intel rival AMD, dragging AMD’s shares down nearly 4 percent.
Chipmaker Marvell Technology to buy its rival Cavium for about $6 billion
• 7 years agoMarvell and Cavium combined would be able to better compete with bigger rivals Intel Corp, Qualcomm and Broadcom, Stifel analyst Kevin Cassidy said.