Intel plans huge plant in Ireland
Not sure it will go through at all, at all
Chipzilla is in advanced talks for a deal with Apollo Global Management in which the equity firm would provide more than $11 billion to build a facility in Ireland.
Microsoft loses Cortana case
Must pay €224.07 million to IPA Technologies
A jury in Delaware just decided that the software king of the world, Microsoft, must fork over €224.07 million to IPA Technologies over some beef over patents with its Cortana virtual assistant.
Teams elbow out the competition
Brussels is gearing up to slap Microsoft with some fresh antitrust charges. It reckons the big tech firm is playing dirty with its Teams app, elbowing out the competition.
IBM outsources Granite code
AI tech goodness is given to Apache 2.0
Big Blue has been a busy bee, getting its Granite code out in the open by using stuff already out there for everyone to see, like GitHub Code Clean and other public code.
Biden gives $120 million to Polar Semiconductor
Might even buy the company
Polar Semiconductor in Bloomington, Minnesota might trouser up to €111.6 million ($120 million) under the Chip’s Act and there is a rumour that the US might even buy the company to keep its production on this side of the pond.
Catching up to AMD
Intel’s latest and greatest Aurora supercomputer, installed at Argonne National Laboratory, has smashed through the exascale barrier. Before this, only AMD’s Frontier system had managed to pull that off.
Not poweful enough
Lenovo China's manager with the Weibo name 思考未来啊 has warned that the next-gen Ryzen 8050/9000 PCs will not support Windows 10.
Intel faces more ghosting from Spectre
Call in more Ghostbusters
Top boffins from several universities have discovered a new Spectre-like method of extracting secrets from Chipzilla’s latest processors.
Electronic Arts wants more adverts in games
Probably time to go back playing battleship
Having not learnt anything about how media streaming companies have destroyed their business model with advertising, Electronic Arts is mulling over putting adverts inside its games.
Baidu fired PR boss for bad PR
Bragging about treating your staff as slaves is not a good look these days
Baidu's PR boss's controversial actions initially garnered her a significant following but have now led to her dismissal.