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Macquarie Asset Management and PSP Investments will sell their 88% stake in AirTrunk to a Blackstone-led investor consortium. -
Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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Nvidia shares have fallen despite record revenues of US$30 billion (£24.7 billion) over a three-month period.
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Nvidia will beat previous results when the chipmaker publishes its earnings later today.
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Microsoft has reportedly bought 929 acres of farmland at St. Joe Farm, Indiana for its latest data centre.
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Ericsson has announced that a four-year programme to monitor the company’s compliance with US anti-corruption had ended yesterday.
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The US has revoked licenses that allowed Huawei to buy older chips from US chipset companies Qualcomm and Intel.
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The US has plans to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) US$6.6 billion in grants and up to $5 billion in loans to help the company build factories in Arizona.
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This week, the UK and US signed a ‘landmark’ deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
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The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together to test advanced AI.
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The AT&T data breach, which affected 73 million customers is a “wake-up call for the telecom industry to keep up with the times”.
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Despite the sanctions imposed on two Chinese nationals and a company on Monday, it is essential for the UK and the US to remain vigilant about cybersecurity threats.
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The Biden administration has agreed to give intel up to US$8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon.
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Nokia’s exit from TD Tech, a wireless technology firm jointly controlled by Huawei comes as no surprise according to Paolo Pescatore, TMT analyst at PP Foresight.
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The Biden-Harris Administration is issuing a “landmark” National Spectrum Strategy aimed at freeing up additional wireless spectrum for advanced technology needs.
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun plans to reinstate net neutrality rules that were rescinded under then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
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Capacity caught up with Ashley Haghighi, a senior in engineering, who attended Datacloud USA as part of the Broadgroup Talent in Tech initiative.
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Hydrogen and nuclear-powered data centres are a distinct possibility for the future.
