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AI is Boosting Server Sales
Emerging AI workloads are propelling the booming Chinese server market, particularly those hosting programmable co-processors capable of supporting graphics chips used for parallel processing of machine learning tasks. The ...Full Article
AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price
Wall Street’s ardor for Advanced Micro Devices cooled somewhat today as the company’s shares, the stock market's top performer the last two years, fell nearly 6 percent to $47.51 ...Full Article
AI Chip Market is Booming
AI processors are reinvigorating the global semiconductor industry, prompting at least one market tracker to predict a three-fold increase in AI chip applications over the next five years. In ...Full Article
Quantum Computing, ML Drive 2019 Patent Awards
The dizzying pace of technology innovation often fueled by the growing availability of computing horsepower is underscored by the race to develop unique designs and application that can be ...Full Article
The Rush to 5G Begins, Driven by IoT
The number of 5G wireless connections is forecast to soar 150 percent over the next five years as infrastructure rollouts gather momentum for connecting sensors and other edge devices. ...Full Article
Intel’s Habana Deal Expands AI Reach to Edge
Intel continues to expand its push into AI silicon with the acquisition of Israeli-based Habana Labs, a specialist in deep learning accelerators for datacenters—a capability Intel hopes to extend ...Full Article
More Management Change at Intel as Swan Works to ‘Destroy’ CPU Focus
Change within Intel’s upper management – and to its company mission – has continued as a published report has disclosed that chip technology heavyweight Gary Patton, GlobalFoundries’ CTO and ...Full Article
Cisco Aims Chips, Optical Links at Next-Gen Internet
Cisco Systems unveiled its networking framework of the future this week aimed at scaling internet performance for emerging enterprise workloads like AI and machine learning along with network routers ...Full Article
IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflop IBM Power9-based supercomputer has been unveiled in upstate New York that ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost
An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding ...Full Article
