IBM, TSMC, Global Foundries, Intel and Samsung allies in research

In an unexpected move, the main casters of semiconductors of the world decided to ally in a joint R & D project. It represents an investment of $ 4.4 billion, of which 3.6 billion made only by IBM.

All of the research will be conducted in facilities located in the State of New York, to the United States, where IBM, Intel and Global Foundries already own factories. Total 2500 high-tech jobs (1900 positions for the construction of buildings) will be created. The investment will be used two different projects. The first, involving IBM, Samsung and Global Foundries, aims to develop the next two generations of chips, 14 nm and 22 nm. Recall that Intel has a step ahead of them and already produced chips in 22 nm "3D".

The second project, bringing together five casters, will study the update of engraving plants for use with wafers of 45 cm in diameter. The majority of the industry today uses wafers of 30 cm in diameter. The transition to 45 cm would double the amount of chips per wafer.

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Global failure for Hotmail and Windows Live services

Services connected Microsoft suffered a global breakdown this night. Things are returning little by little in order.

On the night of 8 to 9 September, Microsoft online services (Hotmail, Office Live, Skydrive) underwent a global failure. Microsoft, which recognizes the incident, has promised a rapid restoration of all affected services. If any re - works without problem for some people this morning, access to Hotmail or Skydrive is visibly still problematic for many people (as is our case). Note that these are all services related to the Live ID which met with problems.

"We are aware of a failure affecting Hotmail, SkyDrive and other of our services." We work actively in the resolution of this problem. "More future information" indicated this morning team of Hotmail on Twitter. And a few minutes later, a second message: "We are deploying a patch which we believe that it will correct the problems with Hotmail, SkyDrive, and our other Live service." Thank you for your patience! "."

All of the MSN portal services have not been spared, and it would seem that instant messaging was also victim of this failure. The following online tools Office 365 have also been affected. Two services that, in our case, work. Because if the patches are deployed, it will be that they have been for everyone, changes took place at the level of the DNS configuration. It is a problem at the level of the DNS which is suspected by Microsoft to have caused all this mess. Problems that may be linked to a power outage mass found in the Western United States, deprived of electricity more than 6 million homes.

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