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FCC Throws An $18B Bone To Rural Broadband

Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized... Read more

Dell Cosies Up To Meta To Tame Llama 2 AI Beast On-prem

Spitting in the cloud's eye Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to depl... Read more

The UK Government? On The Right Track With Its Semiconductor Strategy?

Oh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor i... Read more

Google Formally Gets To Work On Android On RISC-V

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs... Read more

Vietnam Becomes Latest Nation To Pitch Itself As A Chip Biz Hub

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,... Read more

Apple Lifts The Sheet On A Trio Of 'scary Fast' M3 SoCs Built On A 3nm Process

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, ... Read more

Alphabet CEO Testifies In Google Search Trial: We Pay Billions To Keep Apple At Bay

As Uncle Sam releases internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the... Read more

Voltage Park To Deploy $500M Worth Of Nvidia H100s To Milk That AI Hype

At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure prov... Read more

$350B DoD Nuke Makeover Efforts Lack Oversight, Say Inspectors

Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? The US Department of Defense's update of its aging nuclear... Read more

Western Digital Execs Vote To Split Biz In Two: HDD And Flash

Latest decision follows failure of Kioxia merger and pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Western Digital... Read more

Ofcom Attempts To Thread The Needle In Net Neutrality Update

User freedoms caught between network operators and big tech Ofcom says it is trying to strike a balance between user fr... Read more

Intel's PC Chip Ship Is Sinking With Arm-ada On The Horizon

That's what happens when you completely misread the market Opinion  These are uncomfortable times for Intel and its in... Read more

Sorry Pat, But It's Looking Like Arm PCs Are Inevitable

History suggests Arm’s place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant' Opinion  Pat Gelsinger may not be... Read more

Biden's Facing The Clock To Veto Apple Watch Import Ban After ITC Patent Ruling

I'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ... Read more

Ask A Builder To Fix A Server And Out Come The Vastly Inappropriate Power Tools

Sure, go ahead, make more dust while I deal with a client who doesn't care about redundancy On Call  With Friday upon ... Read more