57 IBM this week claimed the first sub-nanometre chip, a generation it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It says the design packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, about…
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Telcos agree plan to tighten Sim registration under Rica
81 South Africa’s mobile operators have agreed on a framework to strengthen Sim-card registration and submitted proposals to government for legislative reform of Rica, in a coordinated push to curb the fraudulent…
Gigabit fibre arrives in Joburg township for R5/day
51 Fibertime founder Alan Knott-Craig Fibertime, the pay-as-you-go township fibre network founded by serial telecoms entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig, has reaveled that it has recorded download speeds of 1Gbit/s on its network in…
Standard Bank deal cuts the dollar out of China trade
57 Standard Bank has become the first African-based lender authorised to clear renminbi transactions on the continent, a step that deepens the financial plumbing connecting Africa to China and moves more of…
Starlink lines up a frontal assault on mobile operators
62 The entrance to the SpaceX rocket launch area in Brownsville, Texas. Veronica Gabriela Cardenas/Reuters SpaceX has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial…
When the AI costs more than the coder
84 The price of letting an AI write your code is rising fast, and by 2028 it could rival what you pay the developer sitting next to it – sooner in lower-cost…
Apple announces big iPad, MacBook price hikes
83 Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s data centre buildout. The…
WhatsApp eyes its next act: a global superapp
90 Kunal Shah, an Indian fintech founder with no engineering degree or Silicon Valley pedigree, has spent two decades building businesses around digital payments and consumer behaviour in India. He now takes…
IBM claims major chip breakthrough
78 Image: IBM IBM on Thursday unveiled what it said was the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology — a node it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, generation — as tech companies race…
Vodacom bundles Amazon Prime across its post-paid base
76 Vodacom South Africa has partnered with Amazon to offer full Amazon Prime membership to its post-paid and home connectivity customers, deepening a relationship that until now had been limited to Prime…