Simon Sharwood
APAC Editor at The Register
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur. Loongson's LoongArch is a proprietary instruction set architecture developed to cut reliance on foreign tech, which is mostly a blend of MIPS and RISC-V. The Chinese chip shop has deployed the ISA in processors powering industrial gear, desktops, and servers.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of somehow recovering from failure. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Serge," who, when he was just 16 years old, scored an amazing job: Working the night shift at a mainframe-for-hire company, alongside one of his friends.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans. One was enterprise software vendor Zoho, which abandoned a plan to become a semiconductor manufacturer.
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theregister.com | Simon Sharwood
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that each Friday serves up your stories of biting into half-baked tech support problems. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Charlie" who once worked as field service engineer for a company he told us "installed computers for various large customers."In this story, Charlie got the job of visiting a bread factory where two machines communicating over a serial cable were intermittently glitching.
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Curiouser and curiouser. As the internet archive shows, this competition was first envisioned as a six-week campaign. Now it's 13 months. Imagine how you'd feel if you entered months ago and see the deadline extended (by my count) at least three times https://t.co/frZFHLnNg8
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Submit your proposal for a decentralized registration database and be part of the digital revolution. Send to : [email protected] Deadline : April 30th 2025 For more info : https://t.co/lP7WROOxOY #NRS https://t.co/KxlMGiNItm
This is IMHO utterly ridiculous - by my count this is at least the third deadline extension for this contest. FYI this group has declined to answer questions about its governance and finances while preaching openness and accountability. Curiouser and curiouser.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Submit your proposal for a decentralized registration database and be part of the digital revolution. Send to : [email protected] Deadline : April 30th 2025 For more info : https://t.co/lP7WROOxOY #NRS https://t.co/KxlMGiNItm
RT @mjfree: https://t.co/ENyWstSdqD
