Chips and Components
All of the business news from Apple's WWDC 2017
Consumers watch Apple's annual WWDC with open mouths and wallets, but the company had some interesting tidbits for business customers, too
IBM uses nanosheets to build 5nm chip
Huge implications for the IoT
Apple and Amazon to join with Foxconn in bid for Toshiba semiconductor unit
Foxconn chairman Terry Gou lets slip backing in interview with Nikkei Daily
Computex: AMD to release Zen-based Epyc server CPUs on 20 June
AMD Epyc set to offer more single-socket server power when it launches in June
Intel looks to upstage AMD at Computex with unveiling of 18-core Skylake-X Core i9 offering one teraflop of compute power
Six to 18-core Intel Core i9 microprocessors to take on AMD Ryzen confirmed at Computex
IBM boosts power of quantum computing processors as it lays groundwork for IBM Q systems
New quantum processors have more than three times the number of quantum bits as IBM's existing models
Intel's new i9 CPUs - details leaked online
Leaked PowerPoint claims to show details of Intel's new high-end desktop CPU range
Details on AMD's 16-core 'Whitehaven' Ryzen microprocessors leaked online
AMD expected to unveil Whitehaven, as well as Vega, at Computex press conference confirmed for Computex on 31 May
Nvidia's Volta-based Tesla v100 GPU offers the power of 100 CPUs, claims CEO Jensen Huang
New GPU contains 21 billion transistors and offers five-times the performance of Pascal, claims Nvidia
Toshiba in no-nonsense response to Western Digital over semiconductor sale
Toshiba threatens to bar Western Digital staff from accessing Japan-based unit
AMD CEO Lisa Su to reveal more on Vega on 16 May
Rumours suggest it still won't quite be a full launch for AMD's next-generation GPU micro-architecture and graphics cards
AMD shows signs of turnaround following 18 per cent rise in first quarter revenues
Sales of Ryzen PC CPUs and Vega graphics cards expected to gather pace throughout the year
Intel fixes nine-year-old remote-code execution flaw in its Management Engine technologies
Reports suggest Intel never took reports of the flaw seriously - until recently
Microsoft rejects AMD's Ryzen in favour of 'evolved' AMD Jaguar CPU for Project Scorpio
Next Xbox will come with 12GB GDDR5 memory and pack an AMD Polaris GPU
Nvidia quietly launches £1,160 Titan Xp graphics card with 3,840 CUDA to replace Titan X
The graphics card for people who want the very best?
Imagination Technologies hit hard as Apple announces plans to dump it and use its own graphics technology
Imagination shares tank by 70 per cent following announcement
DDR5 RAM will be here in 2018, and be twice as fast as DDR4 says JEDEC
DDR5 will also "improve channel efficiency", claims standards body
Researchers develop flexible memory devices based on hybrid of graphene oxide and titanium oxide
University of Exeter nanotech researchers claim technology could be used in 'smart' clothing
AMD to announce 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen at Computex in May, suggest rumours
Rumour would confirm leaks of 'behemoth' AMD microprocessors outed in February last year
ARM unveils DynamIQ microarchitecture, its 'biggest architectural shift' since 2011'
DynamIQ microarchitecture intended for everything from embedded applications to personal computing
First Optane SSD with 3D XPoint showed-off by Intel
375GB Optane SSD focused on data centre demands
Ten bidders lined-up for Toshiba memory chip business
Hynix, Micron, Kingston, Western Digital and Foxconn all interested in acquiring Toshiba's 'crown jewels'
Microsoft reveals Windows Server running on Qualcomm ARM microprocessors in challenge to Intel
Qualcomm Centriq features up to 48 64-bit ARMv8 cores - and is much cheaper than Intel, according to Microsoft
Softbank to shift 25 per cent stake in ARM to fund backed by Saudi Arabia, Apple and Qualcomm
Transfer of stake will help SoftBank fulfill its promise to invest "at least $25bn" in SoftBank Vision Fund
