The European Processor Initiative (EIP), an EU-backed pan-European initiative to develop proprietary European processors, has completed its first phase. This phase includes the development of the Arm-based Rhea processor, security technology for HPC and edge processors and a proof-of-concept for the European Processor Accelerator (EPAC) test chip. For some time now, Europe has wanted to […]

In a new Insider build of Windows 11, the weather app has returned to the taskbar. In addition, the speech support has been improved. Windows 10 users will recognize the news and weather widget. This is set by default and can be adjusted to your preferences. You can also disable the app completely if you

The Biden administration will try to make open-source software more secure. Several open-source software providers and developers have been invited to a meeting in mid-January 2021, Bloomberg reports. According to the financial news service, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has invited key tech companies, including software vendors, software developers and cloud companies, to a meeting

Samsung is completing development of a PCIe 5.0 SSD, the manufacturer’s first model to support the new standard. The drive, called PM1743, will be available from 2022. The model has several versions. The capacity ranges from 1.92TB to 15.36TB. PCIe 5.0 support is the common denominator – and the most important feature of all. PCIe

Microsoft is bringing the Editor functionality to SharePoint to perform spell checks. It promises to make spell-checking browser extensions less necessary. Microsoft is currently providing several components within Microsoft 365 with updates. Within this process, SharePoint Pages and News will receive new functionality, MSPoweruser writes. This in the form of the integration of the Microsoft

Security specialist Snyk is considering going public next year. The IPO should yield more than the current company value of 7.6 billion euros (8.6 billion dollars). According to Bloomberg sources, Snyk is currently in talks with banks about the IPO. The IPO should take place in mid-2022. Snyk hopes to raise more than 7.6 billion

Automation Anywhere recently acquired AI startup FortressIQ. With the acquisition, the RPA supplier wants to expand its knowledge in the field of process discovery. With the acquisition, Automation Anywhere will acquire an AI platform that focuses on process discovery. It is a step in the RPA process to determine which business workflows should be automated

Italy is negotiating with Intel to establish a major processor factory. The size of Intel’s investment would be approximately 8 billion euros (9 billion dollars). The talks between the Italian state and Intel are about the establishment of a large factory for packaging semiconductors in the southern European country, Reuters sources say. It concerns a

Paessler introduces the Redfish Sensor in PRTG Network Monitor. The Redfish Sensor serves as an alternative to the vendor-specific sensors that users of the monitoring software currently use to view their server hardware. PRTG Network Monitor promises overview through infrastructure monitoring. To achieve this, processing of the protocols and specifications that manufacturers and developers use

Nvidia claims to have achieved a record storage IOPS with its special BlueField GPUs acting as SmartNICs. The chip supplier wants to demonstrate that the DPUs deliver extremely high storage IOPS for faster processing speeds in data centers. DPUs, also known as SmartNICs, are network cards with their own powerful processor. The DPUs are often