Dado Ruvic/Reuters Intel launched Panther Lake, its new AI chip for laptops, on Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, as the company seeks to reassure investors about the first product made using its next-generation manufacturing process called 18A. Jim Johnson, senior vice president and GM of Intel’s PC group, offered technical details…
Jill Blaauw, Mami Mthimkhulu and Dakalo Ndangani from the Hardware Distribution sales team. Hardware Distribution, an official distributor of ProLabs solutions across Africa, successfully showcased the latest in high-performance data centre and AI interconnect technology at the Africa Tech Festival, held in Cape Town from 11-13 November. The company highlighted ProLabs’ advanced 100G optics and…
Apple is reportedly nearing a final agreement to integrate a custom version of Google’s Gemini model into the more capable version of Siri, which is set to debut in 2026. This partnership will see Apple pay Google an estimated $1 billion annually for the technology, according to a report from Bloomberg. Read: Bandwidth Blog &…
South Africa’s cybersecurity services industry is set for explosive growth, with market revenue forecast to R16.5-billion by 2029, according to BMI TechKnowledge Group’s SA Cybersecurity Services Report 2025. The research projects a 20.3% compound annual growth rate, driven by accelerating digitalisation and particularly strong demand from the financial services sector. Yet, while the threat landscape…
Standard Bank on Tuesday launched a new virtual credit card with “advanced security features” that it said it has so much confidence in that it has made a 100% credit fraud protection promise to customers who use it. The bank said the virtual credit card includes a feature that lets clients use their banking app…
During Huawei South Africa Connect 2025, Huawei officially launched the iFTTR OptiXstar F50 series, the country’s latest “Fibre-to-the-Room (FTTR)+X” solution for intelligent, all-optical smart homes. Announced at the Huawei ISP & MSP Forum, under the theme: “Fast and stable infrastructure, accelerating ISP & MSP intelligence”, it represents a major step forward for internet service providers (ISPs), managed…
