Nvidia-Intel licensing was really just a payment
Settlement wrapped in a paper
Last year Nvidia stopped getting so called licensing money from Intel. After five years the financial injection was delivered in total. This all came after the Intel and Nvidia conflict that started over chipsets, but essentially was a settlement that ended up being called licensing. It never was GPU licensing.
Apple won’t do 5G in 2019
Not an early adopter
Apple is known for not being an early adopter when it comes to new wireless standards. According to people close to the matter, Apple 2019 iPhone won’t have 5G capability. Intel might even be ready with its 5G PC solution.
Darren Grasby gets to run AMD CPU and GPU sales
Reporting directly to Jim Anderson
Up until January, Darren Grasby an ATI sales veteran, was working as President EMEA and Global Channel Sales at AMD. A month later he was promoted to run Corporate VR Global Computing and Graphics Sales and president for AMD in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
IBM’s new mainframe headed for the clouds
Capable of processing 850 million fully encrypted transactions per day per day
Big Blue has been showing off two new mainframe systems which are widely seen as its latest attempt to get its hardware into cloud data centres.
Ryzen 5 codename is hinted at
Years away - 2022 to 2025
AMD has a video where it talks about the Ryzen and its success over the last year and Mike Clark Sr. Fellow Design Engineering was allowed to slip the Codename Ryzen 5 to his rapt listeners.
AMD Navi is no high end GPU
RX580 successor
We have been sitting on this piece of information for a while, but maybe it's the right time to share it with you. Navi 7nm the 2019 chip will not be a high end GPU, it will be a quite powerful performance/mainstream chip.
Chris Hook leaves AMD
After 17 years
One of the most prominent names in AMD’s RTG, Chris Hook, has left AMD. He walked away after seventeen years of ATI and AMD combined with his last job as Sr. Director, Global Product Marketing at AMD.
Xiaomi Mi 7 front and back pictured
SD 845, in-display fingerprint, notch
Xiaomi's Mi7 is a Snapdragon 845 phone that will sell in millions. The latest leaked pictures have confirmed the notched display, in display fingerprint reader and the rear dual camera setup.
Vega 7nm is not a GPU
Current plan: will never be
Many AMD fanboys hoped that Vega 7 nm would be a GPU that could make Vega more competitive to Nvidia's offering.
Qualcomm’s Raj Taluri goes to Micron
SVP and GM Mobile BU
A key member of the Qualcomm team in charge of the IoT, has started working at Micron. He got a saucy offer and left to Micron to be SVP and GM of Mobile Business Unit.