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On day two of his second term, USA President Donald Trump has announced the Stargate Project - a massive half-trillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence instrastructure in the United States.

Widespread reports say chip designer Arm Holdings is canceling a license that allowed mobile chipset heavyweight Qualcomm to use Arm IP in its chips, in a legal dispute over vital smartphone technology which could threaten the bottom line of both companies.

Japan’s SoftBank has acquired UK chip company Graphcore.

EchoStar subsidiary Dish Wireless has bagged a US$50 million grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will be used to fund and establish the Open RAN Centre for Integration & Deployment (Orcid).

Industrial rugged tablets, notebooks, and handheld mobile operator manufacturer Werock adds two rugged tablets with Android OS to its product portfolio namely the Rocktab S508 (8-inch) and S510 (10-inch), which are available with either Windows 11 or Android 12.

For the first time in 51 years, Intel has opened some of its Malaysian factories to the media and analysts.

German open-source vendor SUSE has released enhancements to its enterprise Linux distribution, with the focus being on security.

Nvidia has used the Computex trade show in Taiwan to announce a raft of products.

CPU specialist Arm is moving ahead with its plan for an IPO after "regulatory challenges" prevented completion of the agreed acquisition of the company from SoftBank by GPU giant Nvidia.

Java 19 increases developer productivity, improves the Java language, and enhances performance, stability and security, according to Oracle.

Move over CPU, make way GPU; there’s a third new type of silicon coming to a server near you - the DPU or data processing unit.

MLPerf Inference provides an indication of how well systems perform at inferencing tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. Nvidia's A100 achieved the highest performance per accelerator in the Data Center Offline and Server tests.

The race to perfect the Arm platform to power ultra slim and light Windows 11 and Chromebook PCs is hotting up with the newest generation of 5nm processors from Qualcomm, fighting back against x86 processors and Apple's Arm-based M1-class processors, with Qualcomm's inbuilt 5G one of the differentiators for the "Always On, Always Connected" experience.

Of 60 major telecom markets globally, 16 will launch 5G services in 2022, but challenges in spectrum availability and pricing will cause delays, according to a forecast by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its Telecoms and Technology in 2022 report.

Together, Intel and Microsoft are delivering people’s "favourite mobile apps" to PCs with Intel Bridge Technology, as announced at the Windows 11 launch this morning.

Oracle today announced a new range of Arm compute instances based on Ampere’s ARM processors along with the tools and support to accelerate Arm-based application development. The new Arm offerings clock in at a single cent per core hour, the industry’s lowest cost per core.

Company News: The Bytecode Alliance, a community dedicated to creating new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), today announced incorporation as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation. Incorporated by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla and Microsoft, the Bytecode Alliance now invites organisations to join its cross-industry collaborative mission alongside new members Arm, Dfinity Foundation, Embark Studios, Google, Shopify, and University of California at San Diego.

The United Kingdom has announced that it is looking afresh at the proposed deal between GPU vendor NVIDIA and CPU specialist ARM, with the former to buy the latter for US$40 billion (A$51.5 billion), on the grounds of national security.

Parallels Desktop 16.5 for Macs now lets M1 and Intel-powered Macs run native code to run Windows 10 at "native speeds on Macs with a seamless experience loved by millions".

As usual, Nvidia had a raft of product announcements ready for its annual GTC conference which started today. Among the standouts were the Grace data centre CPU, a next-generation BlueField DPU, Omniverse Enterprise for 3D collaboration, and updates to the company's Drive platform.