Memory Demand Propels Booming Chip Market
Chip makers have been scrambling to find new applications for their wares, focusing on the Internet of Things, big data and emerging machine learning applications requiring more processing power. ...Full Article
Oracle Automates the Data Warehouse
Oracle Corp. released the first of what it says will be a string of cloud platform services based on machine learning that are designed to differentiate the cloud upstart ...Full Article
Nvidia Ups Hardware Game with 16-GPU DGX-2 Server and 18-Port NVSwitch
Nvidia unveiled a raft of new products from its annual technology conference in San Jose today, and as expected, there was no major new silicon announcement (or any mention ...Full Article
Nvidia To Use Virtual Reality for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Nvidia today revealed how it’s planning to use virtual reality technology to accelerate the testing of autonomous vehicles. The new offering, dubbed Drive Constellation, could dramatically improve the capability ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning into Datacenters, IoT
Nvidia upped the ante on GPU acceleration for deep learning with the latest release of inferencing engine that supports a range of machine intelligence applications running in datacenters as ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches Volta-based Quadro GPU with RTX for Real-Time Ray Tracing
At a new product extravaganza this morning during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the new Volta-based Quadro GV100 with RTX technology, positioning the pairing as ...Full Article
Predictive Analytics and Human Trafficking: ‘We Will Never Rescue Our Way out of this Crime’
In the annals of venality, human trafficking has metastasized into one of the most horrific organized crimes against humanity since the Holocaust. It’s estimated that 40 million people, 80 ...Full Article
HPC Cloud Provider Nimbix Launches IBM Power9 Targeting AI
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed ...Full Article
Fake Artificial Intelligence vs. the Real Thing – How to Tell the Difference
When ‘Willy the Wonder-Chicken’ defeated famed behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner at Tic-Tac-Toe in 19791, who would’ve imagined tomorrow’s McNugget would become a foot soldier in the battle between artificial ...Full Article
Digital Transformation: Strategic Imperative or Overrated?
It turns out the transition to zeroes and ones—the vaunted “digital transformation” many companies seek—isn’t going as smoothly as many vendors would have them think. Like most organizational changes, ...Full Article
