The future of computing
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The CEO of ARM on why its new chips focus on security and artificial intelligence. Plus we hear about two exciting projects to bring quantum computing out of the lab. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: ARM chief executive Simon Segars, credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:50.2 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly essential guide to all the hottest news and trends in the technology business. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Rory Katelyn Jones, and in this week's program, we look at the future of computing. |
| 1:02.6 | Arms processors dominate the world of mobile computing, as it unveils its first new platform in a decade. |
| 1:08.5 | The chip designer's boss tells us how the new ambition |
| 1:11.7 | is to be a dominant force in artificial intelligence. And is quantum computing overhyped or the next |
| 1:18.5 | big thing? We hear from two groups of researchers who claim they've made big breakthroughs, |
| 1:23.4 | which will help us into the quantum future. Joining me this week is senior BBC technology reporter Jane Wakefield. |
| 1:30.3 | Jane, what's been giving you busy? |
| 1:32.4 | Well, I have been trying to wade my way through a lot of reports from unions and a lot of reports |
| 1:38.3 | from Amazon on a story that we'll talk about a little bit later. |
| 1:41.5 | The gig economy and employment practices in the technology sector under the microscope again. |
| 1:46.8 | We'll come to that later. |
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