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With AMD on its heels, Intel unleashes first Tiger Lake laptop chips
Intel Corp. today introduced the first nine central processing units powered by its recently revealed Tiger Lake architecture, promising a more than twofold performance boost for some applications. The chips are all designed to power laptops, a segment in which Intel is facing rising competition from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after years of holding a ...
Microsoft launches Azure Spring Cloud to simplify enterprise software projects
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a managed service designed to reduce the amount of work involved in building and maintaining enterprise applications on its cloud platform. Azure Spring Cloud is the fruit of a collaboration with VMware Inc. and was first previewed by the companies last year. The service is ...
Nvidia says its new 28B-transistor flagship graphics chip is fastest ever built
Nvidia Corp. today debuted a new flagship line of consumer graphics cards, the RTX 30 series, headlined by a 28-billion transistor chip touted as the “fastest GPU ever built for gaming and creative types.” Besides being a major chip supplier to data centers, Nvidia is also the top maker of graphics processing units for playing ...
Samsung reveals hardware specs for its foldable Galaxy Z Fold 2
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today held a virtual event to share the specifications of the Galaxy Z Fold 2, the upcoming high-end foldable device it previewed last month. The Galaxy Z Fold 2 is the company’s third attempt at making a reconfigurable handset, following the Z Flip and the original Fold. Samsung is betting that ...
Report: Apple expects to ship up to 80M of its upcoming 5G iPhones this year
The latest leak about Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhones suggests that the company expects to sell at least 75 million and as many as 80 million of the new devices this year alone, a positive early sign for its fourth-quarter earnings. The information about Apple’s handset sales expectations appeared today in a report from Bloomberg. The ...
Firewall automation specialist FireMon raises $40M debt round to fuel growth
FireMon LLC, a startup focused on making enterprises’ firewalls more effective at blocking threats, today said that it has closed a $40 million debt round after a second quarter in which revenues jumped more than 300% compared with the previous three months. The financing, announced today, is underwritten by Silicon Valley Bank. Dallas-based FireMon sells ...
AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Bottlerocket, an open-source Linux distribution it has developed specifically for running software containers. Popular Linux distributions are designed to run not only containers, which enable applications to be run in multiple computing environments, but also a range of other workloads. Because they support a large number ...
Amazon’s drone delivery program wins key FAA approval
Amazon.com Inc.’s delivery drones can start dropping off packages on consumers’ lawns now that the company has received an important initial regulatory approval from the U.S Federal Aviation Administration. Amazon said today that its Prime Air unit, which manages its drone delivery efforts, has been designated an “air carrier” by the FAA. That means the unit ...
Qualcomm touts performance improvements with new mobile chip, 5G tech
Qualcomm Inc. today debuted a new processor for mobile devices and announced a technical milestone in its efforts to develop more powerful 5G networking technology. Qualcomm’s efforts in the mobile processor and 5G segments are closely interlinked. The company’s technology can be found both in the handsets with which consumers connect to mobile networks, as well ...
Apple blocks Facebook app update amid scrutiny of App Store policies
Facebook Inc. is the latest company locking horns with Apple Inc. over its App Store policies around in-app payments, which have also drawn scrutiny from other software makers and regulators. Facebook’s dispute with Apple revolves around a feature the social network launched this month to let businesses host paid online events on its platform. Facebook had asked ...