Both firms expect the deal to close at the end of 2021 AMD announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy rival chip maker Xilinx Inc in a $35 billion all-stock deal. As part of the deal, Xilinx shareholders will own about 26 per cent of the combined firm, while the rest 74 per cent of the company will be owned by AMD shareholders. Xilinx shareholders will get about 1.7 shares of AMD

Ten years ago this fall, Google gave us a glimpse of a new device unlike any it had ever built before—a computer-controlled car. It seemed such a strange thing for an Internet company to spend its time and energy on, a “moonshot” as the company’s engineers called such massive efforts. But with a single blog post, the search giant promised to reinvent our cars, and our communities, too.It was a big

On Tuesday, Apple unveiled four new iPhone 12 models bringing 5G to its smartphone line-up. The four models include the Apple iPhone 12 mini, Apple iPhone 12, Apple iPhone 12 Pro, and Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max. All of them support 5G wireless networks, which will be used when the operating system of the device determines it is required. For low-data requirements, it will drop to LTE 4G connectivity

Imagine walking down the street, looking for a good cup of coffee. In the distance, a storefront glows in green through your smart glasses, indicating a well-reviewed cafe with a sterling public health score. You follow the holographic arrows to the crosswalk, as your wearables silently signal the self-driving cars to be sure they stop for your right of way. In the crowd ahead you recognize someon

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: The U.S. moved last week to tighten the vise on China’s technology ambitions with a “one-two punch of industrial policy” said Ana Swanson at The New York Times. First, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., one of three companies in the world capable of making the most advanced microprocessors, announced it

We’ve heard a lot about cloud computing, edge computing and various other kinds of computing, but confidential computing is less well known. As an emerging encryption model, it promises to offer greater protection to data as it’s being used, supplementing at-rest and in-transit encryption. Protecting against attacks like memory dumps and malicious root user compromise, the development of confident

Cloud computing has been a dominant force within business IT for many years and has only grown stronger in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that the majority of employees are currently working outside of the traditional office. This has seen us become even more dependent on cloud-based services which now hold more of our data, be it personal or work, than ever before. As such, it is

If you’re an app developer, you’ve likely got a few favoured programming languages in your toolkit. Statistically speaking, these probably include Java, Python and some variation of C, but there’s a strong argument for incorporating the Swift programming language into your arsenal if you haven’t already. SEE MORE Swift Playgrounds: Everything you need to know SEE MORE Apple allows open source co

Tablets are one of our favorite tech advancements of the last decade. They’re compact, sleek, and magical devices that you can bring with you anywhere to get some work done on the road or use at home to watch a movie or read an e-book while sitting on the couch. Tablets are wonderful if you need something better than a smartphone, but smaller and more compact than a laptop. SEE ALSO: Best tablets