Intel just had a bumpy week in the headlines. Reports indicate the company may have tested a wet-etching tool from a sanctioned company. Its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is also attracting attention for investing in tech companies that interact with Intel, with a New York Times report exploring his priorities as …
Read More »Intel CEO Says He's Betting the Entire Company's Future on its 18A Process
Intel’s upcoming 18A process, short for 18 Angstroms, is the pinnacle of the company’s “five nodes in four years” strategy outlined in 2021. It will be the culmination of many years of engineering work by Intel and billions of dollars of R&D. It is theoretically the process node that will …
Read More »AMD's Monstrous MI300 Finally Arrives, Carrying the Company's AI Hopes and Dreams With It
At CES in January, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su pulled a “one more thing” move at the end of the presentation and flashed a monster AI accelerator named MI300, which it had been working on for several years. The CES keynote was primarily about the company’s V-Cache CPUs for its …
Read More »eVTOL Company Tests Ballistic Multi-Parachute Safety Mechanism
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles may be gaining momentum, but they can only succeed long-term as a transportation option if passengers feel safe enough to ride them. To that end, some eVTOL companies are researching ways to implement last-ditch safety mechanisms. The Guangdong-based AeroHT shared Tuesday that its …
Read More »ACompany That Cleans Space Debris
(Photo: Tyler van der Hoeven/Unsplash)Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is starting a space company that appears to be dedicated to cleaning up space debris. In a vague tweet from Sunday, Wozniak said he was starting a private space company “unlike the others” and linked to a YouTube video posted under a …
Read More »Chronicle’s Ex-CSO
Mike Wiacek is back with a new company, a year after departing his role as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company. Wiacek spent 13 years at Google, founding the company’s Threat Analysis Group, a unit dedicated to countering government and state-backed hacking efforts, and also co-founding Chronicle, …
Read More »OnePlus Company
In the last few years, OnePlus has gone from being a plucky upstart with questionable advertising to a 5G powerhouse that regularly partners with US carriers to launch new flagship smartphones. All through that meteoric rise, co-founder Carl Pei has been a director at the company. Until now. Pei …
Read More »Electric Vehicle Company
Numerous companies are trying to perfect electric vehicles. Tesla has a particularly large following, but traditional automakers like Chevrolet and GM are also trying to get a piece of the emerging EV market. That’s why General Motors signed a deal with Nikola Motor Company, which, like Elon Musk’s Tesla, …
Read More »Foursquare Location Data
As third-party cookies disappear, one of the candidates to replace them is mobile-location data. It can be used to understand real-world customer behavior, purchase intent, brand affinity and as a versatile targeting tool for online and mobile campaigns. But the quality and accuracy of location data has been a contentious …
Read More »AMD Patent Hybrid Design
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 …
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