Alwin Bakkenes, head of software engineering at Volvo Cars, reckons that leading a team to develop the technology stack powering the next generation of mobility at the automotive giant is one of the best jobs you can imagine. “I’m not saying it’s always easy, but it’s incredibly rewarding and great fun,” he says. “People are…
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Apple’s CEO has warned of “significantly higher memory costs”From June, we’re told the cost of RAM will “drive an increasing impact” on Apple’s MacsSamsung has also warned on the memory crisis, and that “significant shortages” will continue through 2027 at the very leastApple is warning on the impact of increasingly expensive RAM with its products,…
Enterprise software providers are rushing to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into their platforms, which has a consequential impact on the technologies executives buy and the roles professionals fulfil. Into this maelstrom of AI-enabled change comes Workday, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) firm that has made significant recent changes – including co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning…
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In Summer 2023, a plaintiff known only by their initials “K.G.M.” launched a case against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap (owner of SnapChat). It was alleged that social media companies had engineered their sites to encourage their users to engage compulsively with platforms, which had caused the plaintiff to suffer from anxiety, body dysmorphia and…
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Micron’s CEO has been talking about the gravity of the RAM supply situationSanjay Mehrotra said that ‘AI is in very early innings’ and that AI will need a lot more memory to ‘scale up’ going forwardThis follows similar warnings from the other two big memory chip makersWe’ve had another warning from a major memory chipmaker…
AMD has announced its Q1 results, with booming revenue driven by AIThere’s bad news for the gaming division, though, due to ‘higher memory and component costs, ‘ AMD’s CEO Lisa Su observedAMD’s CFO has forecast ‘gaming revenue to decline by more than 20%’ in the second half of 2026 compared to the first half of…
Christian Klein, SAP’s chief executive officer, led with a picture of a three-eared unicorn during the opening keynote at SAP’s global Sapphire event in Orlando. In the main press statement for the event, he added some context: “For the mission-critical processes of our customers, ‘almost right’ just isn’t good enough. “By uniting SAP Business AI Platform…
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The RAM crisis has reportedly resulted in a motherboard manufacturer crisis, according to DigitimesDigitimes’ report suggests motherboard shipments have plummeted for four major Taiwanese manufacturersConsumers no longer have the incentive to buy motherboards for new PC builds due to unaffordable RAM kitsThe AI boom and ongoing economic struggles continue to leave the PC hardware market…
Nintendo announced the Switch 2’s price will increase in the US, Canada, Europe, and JapanIt will now cost $499.99, effective from September 1, 2026All Switch hardware prices will increase in Japan, including Nintendo Switch Online subscriptionsNintendo has held strong amid the memory crisis, successfully avoiding price hikes for its Switch 2 hardware — but all…
gguy/Shutterstock Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI assistant Claude, is now testing an unreleased version of its frontier AI model: Claude Mythos Preview. It’s currently only available to select tech firms, but findings have shown that it has the potential to create numerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities when it is released to the world. According to Anthropic,…
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