Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data
It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more
Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
Revolut plans an ad sales push, expects to derive a “proper chunk” of its revenue from targeted ads, and hires an ex-TikTok executive to lead its media strategy
Akila Quinio / Financial Times :
TSMC reports Q3 revenue down 14.6% YoY to ~$17.28B, net income down 24.9% YoY to ~$6.5B, and expects to spend $32B on growing and upgrading capacity in 2023
- Sales and capex projections both came in ahead of estimates — World's most advanced chipmaker is struggling with a downturn
Sources: several key ex-Arm staff in China depart for Borui Jingxin, a local government-backed chip design firm, worrying Arm investors over future China sales
Bloomberg : X: @rodolfor X: @rodolfor : “Could”, LOL, that's the whole point!! ‘Exclusive: Senior Arm China employees have quit to create a government-backed startup that some fea...
TechInsights teardown: Huawei's Mate 60 Pro uses a new Kirin 9000s chip that was fabricated in China by SMIC using a 7nm process, a blow to US sanctions
The company's Mate 60 Pro is powered by SMIC's 7nm chips, according to analysis that TechInsights conducted for Bloomberg News
A look at potential issues in the UK's plans to revise its Investigatory Powers Act, including blocking end-to-end encryption and slowing down security updates
Ioannis Kouvakas / Just Security : X: @sailingbikeruk , @rodolfor , @mer__edith , @misanthropegirl , @alecmuffett , @jjaron , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jamesrbuk , a...
EU makes its first direct equity investment in startups, with €178M invested across 42 companies, from a new European Innovation Council Fund
Under the new European Innovation Council Fund, each of the companies will receive between €500,000 and €15m, with €178m invested overall.
AngelList data shows that having a top-10 VC investor in the seed round had a negative effect on a startup's chances to raise a follow-on round in 2017 and 2018
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch : Tweets: @rodolfor , @gjain , and @paul_arnold Tweets: @rodolfor : This. A million times this. And the same goes for your Series A as well if we are t...
Google claims “quantum supremacy” after its Sycamore processor completed a calculation in 3 min 20 sec that would take 10K+ years on today's supercomputers
even from Microsoft Kevin Hartnett / Quanta Magazine : Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment Gareth Halfacree / bit-tech.net : Google proclaims quantum s...