Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
Google’s ‘Stadia’ Is a Massive Data Windfall. Who Will Benefit?
July 31st, 2019
For the first time, Google is positioning itself as a competitor to the likes of PlayStation and Xbox with its new offering, Stadia, a cloud-based gaming service – with both free and paid tiers – that allows gamers to ...
AI’s Carbon Footprint May Be Bigger Than You Think
July 11th, 2019
Data centers and supercomputers running AI workloads consume a lot of power, and power use causes carbon emissions. That’s generally known, but it’s not widely appreciated just how energy- and carbon-intensive AI can be. Recently, a team of researchers ...
AI Career Notes: July 2019 Edition
July 9th, 2019
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each month. Here's the AI career news for early July: Tom ...
FPGAs’ Reputation for Security May Belie Vulnerability in Cloud
June 7th, 2019
Thanks to their flexibility, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are often a first choice during system development – however, a new report by scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany has called their security into question. FPGAs’ ...
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
June 5th, 2019
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested ...
IBM’s New GPU-Driven Global Weather Forecasting System
January 10th, 2019
Weather prediction is a mercurial endeavor: the constant modeling and re-modeling of incredibly complex systems to a high degree of accuracy at a local level within short timespans. Now, IBM and The Weather Company (an IBM subsidiary) have announced ...
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