Dell fined down under
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Discounted hardware prices ruled unfair dinkum 

Grey box shifter Dell has been fined more than $6.5 million by Australian regulators after it was found to have misled consumers on discounted hardware prices.

Intel claws back market from AMD
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PC market appears to wake up

New figures from Mercury Research further point to signs of a market recovery in the sale of PC in the second quarter of 2023 and it seems that Intel is doing well out of it.

Intel patches its Downfall
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Hits Skylake Tigerlake

Intel has released a patch for a particularly nasty processor speculative execution vulnerability – Downfall.

US companies lining up for Chip subsidies
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Give us cash Uncle Sam

The U.S. Commerce Department said that more than 460 companies have expressed interest in winning government semiconductor subsidy funding to boost the country's competitiveness with China's science and technology efforts.

Amazon is the King of the Arm chips
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Makes more than half of them

Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed.