Month: October 2019

Extremetech celebrates here the 50th anniversary of ARPANET.

Aviation Week reports here on Garmin’s new emergency Autoland feature.

AnandTech reports here on a new out-of-order RISC-V core from SiFive.

IEEE Spectrum reports here on U. S. investments in two fabs for radiation hardened chips.  Both fabs appear to be silicon rather than silicon carbide. Separately, the Albany Business Review reports here on Cree’s plans to build a silicon carbide fab in New York state.

Google posted a video here on its quantum supremacy experiment.

Microsoft describes here its Secured-Core PC initiative for firmware and OS protection.

Extremetech reports here that the U. S. Air Force is retiring 8 inch floppy drives on its missile control systems.