Saturday, 29 May 2021, 6:14 am
Remarkables Park Limited has welcomed the
Government’s strategic support into stage one of a new
Research & Innovation Queenstown hub, announced
today.
The Government has announced it will
lend up to $22.5 million to Research & Innovation
Queenstown Ltd (RIQL), a subsidiary of Remarkables Park
Limited, to contribute to the development of stage 1 of a
$45m greenfield hub called Research & Innovation
Queenstown. RIQL will match the Government funding towards
the development costs, plus fund adjacent roading and
services costs.
The first building will provide
approximately 6000sq m of research and innovation offices
and facilites, as well as commercial uses at Remarkables
Geeky Gadgets
9:29 am
A new Kickstarter project has launched this month, looking for backers to help build a power saving computer operating system and push RISC OS to more hardware platforms. German developer Stefan Fröhling explains more about the project and RISC OS.
“RISC OS was one of the most advanced OS at that time with full graphical user interface and multitasking, far better than Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. Other outstanding features have been the context related menus, the three button mouse and the integrated BBC BASIC that even allows direct access to ARM assembler. Sadly Acorn decided to close down their computer division in 1990 and only continue support the ARM technology. Since then RISC OS was mainly supported by enthusiasts and it missed out many technical developments during the rise of the internet. Luckily RISC OS was released as open source in 2018.”
The blocked takeover of Arm represents a sharp break with past economic policy The Cambridgeshire chip designer could be the key link in an industrial strategy for the UK s whole high-tech sector.
Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, May 2018. On the same day England’s greediest football clubs were brought to heel by the threat of government intervention against their European Super League cartel, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden blocked the planned sale of Cambridgeshire silicon chip designer Arm to US chip manufacturer Nvidia. Unsurprisingly, the football story overshadowed a squabble over the arcane business of semiconductors, but it represents another dramatic break with past economic policy, and one with global implications as the trade and tech war between the US and China builds once more.
Next-Gen Tech Including AI to be Integrated into ARM V9
Recently, ARM Holdings announced the development of ARM V9, the next generation in the ARM series. Where is ARM being used, and what will ARM V9 integrate?
ARM – How RISC Changed Everything
The initial development of the ARM core came about in 1983 with two employees of Acorn Computers; Steve Furber and Roger Wilson (now Sophie Wilson). The initial concept of the ARM processor was to develop a processor that would reduce the number of instructions while making the instruction set architecture incredibly optimised. This would create a processor that is simplistic in programming, would use less power, and simpler to integrate into designs.
Illustration: Jason Torchinsky
I’m guessing by now you’ve heard that carmakers have had to slow down or in some cases even stop production because there’s a global shortage of microchips of all kinds. Modern cars are crammed full of these silicon thinking-flakes, so if there aren’t any around, cars won’t get built. This is a strange situation, to be sure, and it’s worth digging into
why it’s happening. So let’s do that.
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There’s been a number of explainers out there, and they all generally arrive at the same conclusions, because, well, everyone can pretty clearly see what went wrong. And unsurprisingly, a lot of the blame can be placed squarely on the thing that we can blame for so much of life’s current shittiness: COVID-19.