PC demand starting to drop
Still higher than pre pandemic
Although PCs are still selling at a greater volume than before the COVID-19 pandemic, demand is starting to drop.
Intel stretched the truth in its AMD comparison
Fancy that
The US tech press which loves telling positive stories about everyone appears to be somewhat shocked that Intel might have not being telling the full truth when it compared its Core i9-12900K and Ryzen 9 5950X.
US blacklists NSO
Israeli spyware outfit is officially an entity
The United States added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its "entity list," a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving some American technologies, after deciding the company's phone-hacking tools had been used by foreign governments to "maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers.
Google wants to get back to killing people
Courting the US military again
Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon programme that used artificial intelligence, the company is aggressively pursuing a major contract to provide its technology to the military.
ARM boss warns of Christmas chip crisis
You have all been on Santa's naughty list
ARM boss Simon Segars warned that Christmas shoppers who have not already bought all their devices may not get them in time.
Business email platforms misused, shokka
Mostly used for personal emails
Most workers are using business emails platforms for personal affairs, potentially putting the company at a significantly higher risk of data breaches and other cybersecurity-related incidents.
AMD doesn't have a chip shortage - claim
Claims its prophets saved its profits
Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices has been able to skirt most of the problems linked with the global chip supply shortage by forecasting demand years in advance.
Tencent working on three chips
Seems everyone wants to be US free
Chinese technology giant Tencent said it is making progress in semiconductor chip development and investment.
Microsoft working on its own metaverse
Will probably fail, and be copied by Apple, where it will be a huge success
Software King of the World Microsoft is working on its own version of the Metaverse which will feature such evolutionary things like Powerpoint and Excel.
Nintendo slashes Switch production
Chip shortage
Nintendo can only produce about 24 million units of its popular Switch game console in the fiscal year through March, 20 percent below the original plan.