Technology

  Micron has made a pair of announcements around next-generation memory technologies, HBMnext and GDDR6X. The latter will debut with the upcoming RTX 3090, which will offer 12GB of onboard RAM. There has been talk that Nvidia might bump high-end RAM capacities (and there’s no mention of an RTX 3090 …

  Microsoft has tried to make smartphones on several occasions — it even purchased Nokia’s Lumia mobile division in 2014. Despite that, Windows Phone succumbed to the market pressures of Android and iOS. Well, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Microsoft’s first Android phone is now available for pre-order, …

  Huawei is trying to position itself as being minimally affected by the technology bans levied against it by the United States government. The company’s 24-core ARM-based Kunpeng 920 CPUs are apparently almost ready for launch in desktop systems. The Kunpeng 920 family extends up to 64 cores and is …

  AMD is looking to patent new techniques for switching between two different CPU architectures on-the-fly in a similar manner to the “big.Little” design ARM uses for its own processors. Given that we’ve already heard rumors that Intel’s Alder Lake will deploy a comparable configuration, it’s beginning to look like …

  Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the development of the Firefox web browser, has announced it is firing 250 people or roughly one-quarter of its workforce. The company’s blog post announcing these changes reads like some kind of utopian fan fiction. It declares “Changing World, Changing Mozilla” before opening with: …

  Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images It’s a “good news, bad news” situation for Huawei. The Chinese electronics giant just surpassed Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone maker, but it might be running out of steam. Huawei CEO Richard Yu has told investors that the company will have to stop …

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Taiwanese A presentation at the Black Hat (virtual) Security Conference this week revealed details of a number of hacking operations aimed at the Taiwanese semiconductor industry. The Taiwanese security firm CyCraft presented details of its investigation at the conference. At least seven Taiwanese companies were penetrated in …

Apple Won’t Allow Cloud Gaming like xCloud and Stadia on iOS Complaints about the Apple App Store are as old as the App Store itself, but that doesn’t make the latest development any more aggravating for gamers. Despite extensive beta testing, it looks like Microsoft will be unable to launch …

In a virtual machine There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can’t trust, need to test multiple OS installations on the same system, …

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images We’ve made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. Amidst the gloom and doom of the early months of the Covid-19 crisis, something surprisingly uplifting started to happen: Companies began …