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“Maybe TSMC should buy Arm”: Sleeping giant that makes tens of millions of chips for Intel, Nvidia, AMD reveals staggering profits and hints at a price hike to please shareholders
In recently released financial results for the second quarter of 2024, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) posted impressive figures that reflect both its dominant market position and the growing demand for the advanced chip technologies it offers. TSMC is currently the 9th most valuable company in the world with a…
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OpenAI is talking to $700 billion chip giant you’ve never heard of to produce chip capable of rivaling Nvidia — Broadcom is bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm together
There’s no question that Nvidia has been the firm to profit the most from the recent boost and AI revolution, as it recently became the third most valuable company on the planet, ahead of Alphabet and Amazon, and for a time in June, it even took the top spot, rising…
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Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage because it’s still running Windows 3.1 — fourth-largest US airline remained free of BSoD errors because its OS hasn’t been updated in decades
A recent global IT outage saw a problematic CrowdStrike update cause millions of Windows computers to fall foul of Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) errors worldwide, affecting airlines, hospitals, banks, and businesses. While thousands of flights by United, Delta, and American Airlines into and out of the US were canceled…
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“Dealing with a tsunami of information”— Alteryx and McLaren on what Formula 1 can teach your business about getting the most from data analytics
Along with being the world’s fastest and most exhilarating, it’s probably fair to claim that Formula 1 is also the most data-centric sport around today. With the ten teams constantly looking for anything to give them an advantage, and sessions and races often decided by tenths of a second or…
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Intel and AMD won’t like that: Detailed benchmarking of Amazon Graviton4 shows fantastic performance/price — this is the biggest server CPU threat yet to x86 duopoly and it won’t go away
The fourth-generation AWS Graviton4 processor, now generally available, is a high-performance CPU based on Arm Neoverse-V2 cores, boasting significant improvements over its predecessor. It features 96 cores, providing on average 30% higher compute performance and 40% faster performance for databases and Java software. If you’re wondering how it compares with…
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YouTube is getting throttled in Russia – here’s how to unblock it
If you’re in Russia and experiencing issues loading YouTube videos, it isn’t your internet connection’s fault or a technical bug. Recent reports revealed Russia’s supposed plans to slow down the video-sharing platform by up to 70% by the end of next week. Plans to “permanently block” YouTube in September seem…
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