Google calculates Pi to 30 trillion digits on its Cloud

To celebrate Pi day, Google has calculated Pi to more digits than ever before: 31,415,926,535,897 digits to be exact, which adds a touch of class. The computer was the firm’s own Cloud, “using cloud tcompiting which is the first time this has ever been done”, said Google. 25 Google Cloud virtual machines were used, running an ...

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Facebook said to have bought Sonics

Facebook is said to have acquired the 22 year-old Silicon Valley SoC IP company Sonics as part of its efforts to build a chip design team. Last year Facebook’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said that Facebook needed ICs which could analyse live video and take it down while it was still streaming if it ...

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Semi manufacturing equipment spend expected to decline 14% this year and grow 27% next year

Spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment is expected to decline 14% to $53 billion in 2019, but grow 27% next year  to set a new record, says SEMI. Spurred by a slowdown in the memory sector, the 2019 downturn marks the end of a three-year growth run for fab equipment spending. Over the past two years, ...

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Toshiba offers 2.5 inch SSD.

Toshiba has made its XD5 Series NVMe SSD platform available in a 2.5-inch, 7mm low-profile form factor that is optimized for low-latency and performance consistency in read-intensive workloads. Developed for both data center and cloud environments, the new 2.5-inch form factor XD5 Series is suitable for NoSQL databases, large-scale-out data mining and analysis, and streaming ...

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UK No.2 For E-Waste Per Head

Oh dear. Here’s another international comparison chart which shows us up in a bad light. While China and the USA generate more e-waste than anyone else, the amount of e-waste generated per person shows us and the Norwegians leading the world. In 2016, 44.7 million metric tonnes of refrigerators, televisions, washing machines and other forms ...

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1st military-qualified Arm processor for hi-rel applications

Teledyne e2v is claiming a first: military-qualified Arm-based processor – in this case a version of NXP’s LS1046A guaranteed for operation at -55°C to 125°C in aerospace and defence applications. LS1046A is part of NXP’s 64-bit Arm Layerscape portfolio, with a 1.8GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A72. In includes packet processing acceleration and high-speed peripherals “and is recognised ...

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Funny Old Taxi App World

In the wacky world of taxi apps where you can raise billions, spend billions and lose billions – for years and years – it’s interesting to see some hard facts emerge. Lyft has now filed for its IPO which means it has to show some hard data. 30.7 million passengers were driven by 1.9 million ...

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