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China's Great CPU Hope – Loongson – May Be Only Four Years Behind Intel

Mission not accomplished Loongson Technology, the company leading China's charge to develop CPUs locally, claims its mo... Read more

Another Thing You Can Blame AI For: Cloud Grows But Server Shipments Are Down

Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? The cloud market continues to grow, ... Read more

Fujitsu Pulls The Plug On European Client PC Sales

Clock is ticking on April 2024 withdrawal Fujitsu has confirmed to The Register that it will cease selling all personal... Read more

Techie's Quick Cure For A Curious Conflict Caused A Huge Headache

A PC is a PC is a PC, and by any other name would not have taken down the intranet Who, Me?  Welcome, gentle reader, t... Read more

India Hits Pause On Import Ban After Apple And Samsung Pull Out

ALSO: That's not a limp, that's 68 iPhones strapped to your body; Malaysia scores giant fab; Phishing phlops in Hong Ko... Read more

Deutsche Bahn Stands To Lose €400M If It Has To Do Huawei With Chinese Kit

Telcos also due to get it in the neck unless the government pays up Reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment ma... Read more

Starbucks Vietnam: Why The US Chain Cannot Crack A Coffee-loving Nation

The verdict is clear: Vietnamese people love coffee, but they don’t really seem to like Starbucks. Read more

Google Offers To Alert Netizens When Their Personal Info Shows Up In Search

I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed Google is carrying out its corporate mission statement – to organize the world's informat... Read more

Canada's Telus To Shed 6K Workers As Profits Plunge 61%

Big cheese asks if anyone wants to take early retirement? Canadian telco Telus plans to ditch 6,000 workers across its ... Read more

Read Lips? Siri Wants To Feel Them, According To Fresh Apple Patent

We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog Siri's ability to re... Read more

Big Chip Players Join Forces To Form Another RISC-V Venture

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints The RISC-V open instruction set architecture got a boost ... Read more

Telecom Giants Dial Up The Heat On Suppliers: It's Not You, It's Your CO2

Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens' A telecoms industry body focused on corpor... Read more

How To Get A Computer Get Stuck In A Lift? Ask An 'illegal Engineer'

Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Fr... Read more

Out Of Nowhere, India Requires PC And Server Makers To Get An Import License

This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of ma... Read more

Devastating Wildfires Spur New Detection Systems

Firms are using AI, drones and satellite tech to help detect and suppress wildfires. Read more