Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).
Ericsson Unveils U.S. 5G Roadmap
August 10th, 2018
The deployment of 5G wireless networks for low-latency applications like the Internet of Things is accelerating with plans for production of the first U.S. radio base station by the end of this year. Ericsson said this week it would ...
Rigetti Eyes Scaling with 128-Qubit Architecture
August 9th, 2018
Rigetti Computing plans to build a 128-qubit quantum computer based on an equivalent quantum processor that leverages emerging hybrid computing algorithms used to test programs and potential applications. Founded in 2013 and based in Berkeley, Calif., Rigetti bills itself ...
Oracle Automates Database Service
August 8th, 2018
Oracle Corp. extended its cloud automation push this week with the release of a “self-driving” cloud database service aimed at autonomous online transaction processing while supporting data warehousing. The cloud competitor is making greater use of machine learning and ...
Datacenter Outages on the Rise
August 7th, 2018
Datacenter operators are looking for new ways to ensure IT resiliency as the frequency and severity of datacenter outages increases along with technology complexity and more demanding workloads, an industry survey finds. The Uptime Institute, which released its annual ...
Tesla Preps AI Chip for Autopilot
August 6th, 2018
Auto maker Tesla looks to be disrupting the nascent AI market with the disclosure by company founder Elon Musk that the car maker is developing a new high-end AI chip that would replace GPUs provided by current Tesla supplier ...
Arm’s IoT Data Management Push Eyes Hybrid Cloud
August 6th, 2018
Arm Ltd. is adding data management to its Internet of Things device and connectivity frameworks with the launch of a platform geared to hybrid infrastructure. The Pelion “device-to-data” IoT platform also targets hybrid infrastructure as enterprises confront IoT complexity, ...
Study Predicts Many AI False Starts
August 3rd, 2018
There is no shortage of corporate AI projects underway and most will fail because companies have not laid the proper foundation in the form of pilot projects or proof of concept approaches needed to scale AI efforts. That’s the ...
Low Code Gets an Industrial-Strength Boost
August 2nd, 2018
The rapid turnaround approach to enterprise application development known as low code continues to gain momentum with this week’s acquisition of cloud native application development specialist Mendix by the German industrial conglomerate Siemens. Munich-based Siemens (ETR: SIE) said Wednesday ...
Cloud Computing, IoT Drive Chip Design Surge
August 1st, 2018
Semiconductor design is booming, propelled by unrelenting demand for new memory chips, cloud computing and the digitization of entire industry sectors such as automotive and industrial. Technology tracker IHS Markit estimates chip design spending will top $300 billion in ...
Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production
July 31st, 2018
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of managing increasingly popular micro-services. Partners Google Cloud, IBM (NYSE: IBM), ...
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