Flawed hardware is the silent security industry killer
Stanford University electrical engineer warns
Servers are packed with undetectable hardware flaws caused by the fact they have shrunk too much.
Google admits “hardware is hard”
But we will still make Pixels
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has moved to quash rumours that the search engine might be getting ready to stop making Pixels as sales slump.
Torvalds warns hardware management is about to get tricky
Blame Intel flaws and Moore's Law
IT's Mr Sweary and Linux founder Linus Torvalds has warned that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging.
Global notebook sales increase
At least a bit
Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that notebook sales have slightly increased.
Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat
Pete Bannon takes Keller's driving wheel
Now that Jim Keller left Tesla for Intel, the new chap in control of Tesla's self-driving car is former PA Semi and Apple apostate Pete Bannon.
AMD admits it is vulnerable to both versions of Spectre
So much for saying that the second one was low risk
After days of saying that there was a "near zero" chance of its chips being hit by the two Spectre bugs, AMD has finally admitted it's vulnerable to both of them.
Blackberry gives up on Smartphones
End of an error
BlackBerry has said it's getting out of the hardware business and will "outsource that function to partners."
Apple needs to stop selling four year old computers
Fanboys are revolting
A while back Apple took the Nintendo out of those who owned five year old PCs calling them “sad people”. However, the fruity cargo cult is now peddling “new” computers which are that august age and even Apple fanboys are screaming “hey we are not THAT sad.”
PC shipments lowest since 2007
9.6 per cent drop in a year
Beancounters at Gartner have been totting up some figures on a back of an envelope and reached the conclusion that PC shipments have dropped 9.6 percent.
Wii U might be able to handle StarCraft II
PC still the optimal platform for the game