Pentagon torches $800m in working HR projects
Accenture and Oracle binned so Salesforce, Palantir and Workday can have a go
The US Department of Defence is chucking out two human resources software projects worth more than $800 million even though they were nearly finished because someone wanted to give their favourite contractors a turn.
Foxconn surprises Wall Street
iPhone assembly into second place
Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, did much better than expectations with its second quarter numbers.
China leans on Nvidia chip buyers
Beijing pressures tech firms to explain why they’re not buying local silicon
The Middle Kingdom’s bureaucrats are making life more difficult for Nvidia by questioning Chinese tech giants about their reasons for ordering the US chipmaker’s H20 AI processors.
Quantum computing arms race heats up
Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful
The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.
Trump softens stance on Intel boss
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gets a warmer than expected reception from the White House
It looks like President Trump is no longer gunning for troubled Chipzilla chief executive Lip-Bu Tan’s head.