Tech Field Day News Rundown

Apr 16 2025 327 ep. 32 mins 27

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The Tech Field Day News Rundown, formerly the Gestalt IT Rundown, is a weekly look at the IT news of the week. Hosted by Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.

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Embracing Physical AI at Intel Vision 2025 || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 16, 2025

Apr 16 2025 42 mins

At Intel Vision 2025, CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized a customer-centric strategy, focusing on advancements in AI PCs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, and the 18A process node. He introduced the concept of “Physical AI,” highlighting Intel’s commitment to integrating AI into hardware solutions across various sectors. Tan’s leadership aims to position Intel at the forefront of AI-driven inn

Microsoft Turns Fifty || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 9, 2025

Apr 09 2025 37 mins

Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at the center of the celebrations. Many Microsoft products have come and gone over fifty

Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans || Tech Field Day News Rundown: April 2, 2025

Apr 02 2025 44 mins

During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract engineering talent, fix the balance sheet issues, and look at manufacturing processes. One of the biggest ways to take care of those last two that was proposed was Intel spinning off non-core business units. He also asked cust

Just How Secure Is Signal? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 26, 2025

Mar 26 2025 40 mins

For shownotes, head to the episode website postThis week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of Congressional hearings about the nature o

NVIDIA Reveals Rubin AI and Blackwell Ultra || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 19, 2025

Mar 19 2025 44 mins

Visit ⁠Episode Post for Show NotesNVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from its previous biennial schedule. This move reflects NVIDIA's response to the growing A

Is The CHIPS Act Crushed? || Tech Field Day News Rundown: March 12, 2025

Mar 12 2025 46 mins

Visit Episode Post for Show NotesWe've spoken at length about the CHIPS Act for the past year or so and you know that we've been big proponents of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US. The latest news from the federal governement isn't so rosy though. According to reports, the current administration is trying to find ways to prevent the funding for the ac

China is Getting Banned Blackwell? | The Gestalt IT Rundown: March 5, 2025

Mar 05 2025 38 mins

I want to take you back to the halcyon days of just a few weeks ago when we discussed the ways that NVIDIA AI chips were showing up in China even though they were under US embargo not to be able to get this advanced technology. This came as a result of a last minute policy decision from the outgoing Biden administration that blocked the Chinese from buying these chips. Now, compani

Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough with Majorana 1 | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 25, 2025

Feb 26 2025 36 mins

We've talked about quantum computing before but Microsoft created a quantum quake in the tech space last week. They announced a new quantum computer chip that took seventeen years to make. The Majorana-1 uses a brand new Topological Core technology that reduces error rates significantly and could create chips with as much as one million qubits of processing power per unit. Micr

Broadcom Wants Intel Chip Designs? | Gestalt IT Rundown: February 19, 2025

Feb 19 2025 28 mins

A report this week claims that Broadcom is investigating Intel's chip design business and is contemplating an acquisition. The news comes from the Wall Street Journal and says that while Broadcom is interested in chip design they are not interested in the foundry business. Analysts are intriguied because that means that Broadcom could either use Intel's designs to augment t

OpenAI Not For Sale as They Prepare Proprietary Chip | The Gestalt IT Rundown: February 12, 2025

Feb 12 2025 40 mins

A group of investors, led by Elon Musk’s startup xAI and other backers, has made a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI, aiming to refocus the organization on open-source AI and safety amid rising tensions between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over its shift to a for-profit model. Meanwhile, OpenAI is advancing its AI hardware strategy with plans to launch a custom-design