Secured-core PCs offer new defence against firmware attacks
Microsoft, PC makers, and three major chipmakers team up to announce Secured-core PCs, designed to defend against PC firmware attacks.
Microsoft, PC makers, and three major chipmakers team up to announce Secured-core PCs, designed to defend against PC firmware attacks.
5G will be the biggest game-changer to affect a softening hardware market this year - but vendor adoption will be slow, according to a senior analyst.
PC prices are going up due to a shortage of a number of components, and the situation isn't expected to change in the coming quarters.
From PCs to servers, Intel is trying to redesign the way computers operate. We've already seen how PCs are changing, with 2-in-1 hybrids and tiny Compute Sticks, but some of the chip maker's groundbreaking technologies will initially appear in servers.
Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.
Millions of people will buy VR headsets in the coming years to play games and view 3D content, and those sales could spark a real-world war among chip-makers.
“Users are extending the lifetime of their devices, or deciding not to replace their devices at all.”
The deployment of billions of advanced systems across major industries over the next five years will be critical to enabling the vision around intelligent systems.
Microsoft has set October 31 as the end of sales of new consumer-grade Windows 7 PCs, but for now has left open the do-not-sell-after-this-date for business machines.
Apple continued to have problems meeting demand for its radically redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer, with ship dates today extending into April.
Traditional PCs were used at historically low rates last quarter to open emails, another sign that a long-time task of those notebooks and desktops has been hijacked by mobile devices, an email-centric firm said today.
Hewlett-Packard today launched a new online promotion that discounts several consumer PCs by $150 when equipped with Windows 7, saying the four-year-old OS is "back by popular demand."
The PC industry finished 2013 down about 10 per centcompared to the year before, research firms IDC and Gartner said. But both are optimistic that the death spiral will weaken this year.
This year will go down as the PC industry's largest contraction, according to research firm IDC, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight.
Developer interest in Windows 8 apps waned from August through October, slowing the growth of Microsoft's Windows Store total app tally.