We bet this one wasn't on your 2024 Bingo card. Intel and AMD are partnering to establish a new advisory committee to enhance and further integrate the x86 ecosystem, intensifying the competition against Arm.
Read More »IBM is spending $34 billion to acquire Red Hat
IBM is still alive, kicking and making big moves in the industry. Over the weekend, it was announced that IBM would by spending $34 billion to acquire Red Hat, a company best known for its contributions to the open-source community and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro. While Red Hat …
Read More »North Korea’s Red Star OS is insecure
North Korea for all of its virtues, is not a country that is known for a thriving software industry, but did you know that they have their own homegrown operating system? Well they do and it's called Red Star OS. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) first launched the OS, which …
Read More »ARM and partners reveal initial server platform standard
Data centers demand standards-based software and hardware offerings to ensure ease of deployment and manageability. ARM Holdings and its partners on Monday released the first standard for servers based on ARMv8-A 64-bit micro-architecture. The guidelines will help server makers to build similar machines. ARM ‘server base system architecture' (SBSA) platform …
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