Qualcomm in hot water over antitrust
Illegally suppressed competition
US chipmaker Qualcomm stifled smartphone chip market competition by threatening to cut off supplies and extracting excessive licensing fees, a US judge ruled.
I expect you to die, Mr Intel,
Phoronix has been testing chips to see how bad Spectre and Meltdown patches harmed the performance of CPUs and the news is horrible for Intel.
Huawei ban hurts US tech too
Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft
The four above are just the tip of the iceberg and probably the companies that will most suffer from the ban, but ISV like Adobe, antivirus makers, any US-based software maker on Android or Windows selling to Huawei will be affected too.
Geeks rescue old IBM mainframe
IBM 360 Model 20 mainframe
Adam Bradley and engineer Chris Blackburn have rescued an IBM 360 Model 20 mainframe from an abandoned building "in the backstreets of Nuremberg, Germany".
Shareholders fear that they might be forced into a global ban
European chipmakers Infineon Technologies, AMS and STMicroelectronics shares fell sharply amid worries Huawei Technologies suppliers may suspend shipments to the Chinese firm due to a US crackdown.