Intel announces the immediate resignation of Brian Krzanich as CEO, after learning he had a "consensual relationship" with a fellow employee, a violation of Chipzilla non-fraternisation policies.

The company already has a replacement for Krzanich, at least in the interim-- CFO Robert Swan.

“The Board believes strongly in Intel’s strategy and we are confident in Bob Swan’s ability to lead the company as we conduct a robust search for our next CEO," chairman Andy Bryant says. "Bob has been instrumental to the development and execution of Intel’s strategy, and we know the company will continue to smoothly execute. We appreciate Brian’s many contributions to Intel."

Fujitsu opens a second European Digital Transformation Centre (DTC) in London-- a location the company says will help customers "better understand their business challenges within the context of their overall strategy."

The first Fujitsu DTC in Europe was opened back in April 2018 in Munich, Germany. The center gives customers access to the Fujitsu Human Centric Experience Design (HXD), a methodology the company says accelerates the design process by focusing on technology-related solutions supporting the digital transformation of organisations. The critical ideation phase puts both Fujitsu customers and their end customers at the heart, ensuring everyone involved is a co-designer of the overall concept.

Back in November 2017, Intel hired former AMD Radeon Technology Group head Raja Koduri to lead the company's graphics effort. Now Chipzilla confirms its plans by stating it will release a first discrete graphics chip in 2020.

The Intel take on discrete GPUs is dubbed "Arctic Sound." Developed as part of a wider-scale AI and machine-learning strategy, the discrete GPU effort will actually be divided in two, with one wing concentrating on datacentre solutions and the other on client offerings such as gaming or professional development.

In the quest to find better ways to both store and power hardware Microsoft looks to the planet's final frontier-- the company has put a container-size prototype datacentre in the seafloor near the Orkney Islands.

The deployment of the Northern Isles datacentre at the European Marine Energy Centre is a milestone in Project Natick, a years-long initiative researching ways of building and operating "environmentally sustainable, prepackaged datacentre units" able to live underwater for years. As Microsoft puts it, "more than half" of the world's population lives around 120 miles (or 193km) of the coast. Thus, putting datacentres under the water near coastal cities makes sense, since it means data has a shorter distance to reach such communities via datacentre demanding less power and maintenance.

Intel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the historic 8086 processor at Computex 2018 with a special edition CPU-- the Core i7-8086K, an 8th generation chip able to reach speeds of up to 5Ghz without overclocking.

The anniversary is actually a dual one, since Chipzilla is also celebrating 50 years in the business. However the 8086 is arguably more important, since the processor was the first running on x86 architecture, making it a chief reason as to why Intel is the giant it is today. Of course the Core i7-8086 is a bit more sophisticated than the original 16-chip 8086, being a Coffee Lake-based chip with a 6-core/12-thread part with a 4GHz base clock, 5GHz boost clock, and 12MB of L3 cache.

The saga of the sale of Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC) has finally come to a close-- following a lengthy review by Chinese antitrust authorities the constortium lead by Bain Capital now owns the lucrative chipmaking business.

Confirmation comes via Toshiba, who states the sale is worth three hundred million yen (roughly $18 billion). The deal was set to close on March 2018, but the Chinese authorities took longer than expected to go through the paperwork.

Now TMC belongs to KK Pangea, a purpose-built company making part of Bain Capital. Controlling it is a consortium of buyers consisting Apple, SK Hynix, Dell and Seagate. Interestingly Toshiba owns 40% of the unit, giving it voting rights but not majority rule. That said, Toshiba is "expected" to eventually become a Pangea affiliate.