According to two people familiar with the matter at hand, the U.S. Department of Energy is closing in on a deal to purchase a supercomputer made with chips from Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc even as a key lab waits for a larger supercomputer from Intel Corp that has seen delays for months.…
On Monday, in a significant development, International Business Machines Corp (IBM) announced a new processor for data centers that can handle three times the workload of its predecessor. IBM’s Power10 chip will be manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. The Power10 will benefit from Samsung’s 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process, which incidentally is similar to its…
In a statement, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co stated, they had won a $600 million deal to deliver a supercomputer that will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear security arm to support the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The supercomputer, dubbed El Capitan, named after the famous rock face in…
Although Intel’s server chips will be launched next year, industry experts opine that machine learning features along with better memory management techniques could provide Intel the edge. Having said that, competition in the server chip space is always good since it lowers cost and improves efficiency. On Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices Inc stated, following the…
The new console will sport 120Mhz refresh rates, will include an SSD and an AMD chip. Expect to snag one during the 2020 holiday shopping season. Microsoft has unveiled its next-gen Xbox console, called “Project Scarlett” which will hit the stores during the 2020 holiday season. In the Xbox E3 conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft…
Known as Speculative Store Bypass or “Variant 4”, these new vulnerabilities have a low risk profile assigned to them partly due to the patches that were released earlier this month for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Alphabet’s Google and from Microsoft Corp have unearthed new security vulnerabilities that impact a broad range…
Affected users should manually download the security update from the Microsoft Update Catalog website. Software giant, Microsoft Corp has issued an emergency security update that plugs bugs in Intel Corp’s buggy Spectre firmware patch. Microsoft’s update comes nearly after a month following Intel’s confirmation that its chips had exploitable vulnerabilities, now known as Meltdown and…
These questions by the U.S. lawmakers underscores the fact that the U.S. Congress is sensitive to these critical vulnerabilities which can be exploited by state backed hackers to gain access to virtually any modern computing device. A Democratic U.S. lawmaker has requested a briefing on the recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities, Meltdown and Spectre, that hackers…
Security analysts have warned that hackers are likely to very quickly add exploit code for these vulnerabilities to their hacking tool set. While the updates for the Meltdown vulnerability has been made available for download from Google, Microsoft, and Apple, the patch for the more dangerous and difficult to plug named Spectre, still remains elusive.…
The surge has taken short sellers of the stock by surprise. On Tuesday, boosted by a strong demand for its GPUs, the share prices of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) surged by 9% leaving short sellers low and dry. The rise in AMD’s stock price can be linked to a rally in Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, which…
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