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Foxconn Expects Stronger Sales In Spite Of Economic Gloom

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn revises full-year expectations upward amidst strong consumer and data centre demand, bucking turbulent conditions

Apple chief executive Tim Cook at WWDC 2020. Image credit: Apple

Cloud

Apple Loses Key Server Chip Designer To Microsoft

Apple loses another key staffer, as Microsoft reportedly hires chip industry veteran Mike Filippo to help in its in-house chip server designs

DevOps

The Apple M1: The Beginning of a New Era?

The current iMacs and Macbooks are the last and perhaps the best with Intel silicon at their heart. As Apple is moving to its own custom CPUs, what does this mean for the desktop PC and the masses of applications that have been Intel-c ...

Innovation

What’s Next After Digitization?

As businesses continue on their digitization roadmap, many have entered the last stage. Benefits are already becoming measurable and driving enterprise transformation. Silicon UK asks what barriers have been encountered, and what does ...

Cloud

Amazon AWS Puts Custom ARM Server Chip Into The Cloud

re:Invent 2018: AWS says the custom-built 'Graviton' chip, based on a design originally aimed at high-end smartphones, can slash costs when running scale-out workloads like containerised microservices

Datacentre

US, UK Security Services Deny Knowledge Of China Server Hack Probe

NCSC and the US' Department of Homeland Security both say they support denials by Apple, Amazon and Super Micro as mystery grows around China's alleged hack of manufacturing supply chain

Datacentre

Apple, Amazon Deny Reported Chinese Server Hack

China is accused of implanting hardware in sensitive servers during the manufacturing process — a feat security experts consider to be next to impossible

Cloud

Ex-Intel Executives Launch New Arm Server Chip Company

Former Intel President Renee James is heading up Ampere, which is using the Arm architecture for processors aimed at private and public clouds

Cloud

How AMD Wants To Provide ‘Supercomputing For All’

AMD and partners announce availability of new systems powered by high-end CPUs and GPUs to accelerate the use of supercomputing in smaller data centers

Cloud

HPE Will Stop Selling Cloud Servers To Google And Facebook By 2018

But company will continue with sales of higher-end, non-customisable servers to Tier 2 and 3 customers

Cloud

HPE ‘Set To Cut’ 5,000 Jobs Worldwide

Reports suggest HPE plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce amid intensifying IT competition

Cloud

Microsoft Azure Diary: Azure Confidential Computing Encrypts Data In Use

AZURE NEWS: Microsoft's new security features are a 'first' for the public cloud

Cloud

AMD Epyc Server Chips Take The Data Centre Fight To Intel Xeon

32 core processors, 2TB of memory support and 128 lanes of PCIe are on offer with the Eypc chips

Enterprise

HPE CEO Meg Whitman Hints At More Acquisitions

Spend, spend, spend. Acquisitions will form part of HPE's strategy going forward confirms CEO

Cloud

HPE Discover: ‘Project New Stack’ Unifies Multiple Enterprise Clouds

At Discover, HPE takes the wraps off advances in software-defined IT, terabyte-scalable persistent memory and firmware-level security

Cloud

HPE & Nvidia Join Forces To Power AI And Deep Learning Neural Networks

Servers from HPE will get access to Nvidia's graphics tech based on next-generation Volta architecture

Cloud

Lenovo Launches Cloud Service Tailored For Taking SAP HANA Off Premise In China

Chinese enterprises will be able to migrate their HANA deployments to the cloud

Cloud

Newcastle Will Play Host To UK’s Largest Purpose Built Data Centre

Newly minted data centre firm Stellium will make Newcastle's northern tech hub the base for its UK data centre

Cloud

Oracle Buys Domain Names Service Provider Dyn

The database giant looks to extend its cloud footprint with Dyn acquisition

A Facebook data centre. Image credit: Facebook

Cloud

IoT Drives Data Centre Efficiency With Schneider Electric’s Cloud-Connected StruxureOn

Connecting the IoT with the cloud in data centres could make server operation more efficient and manageable

Cloud

Dell EMC World 2016: The Show That Outgrew Austin

DELL EMC WORLD 2016: Dell and EMC have so much to say that annual conference will move to Las Vegas next year. But what can we expect at Austin send off?

Cloud