With Strong Q2 Earnings, Nvidia’s System Play Comes Into Focus
Nvidia has announced its Q2 2021 earnings: $3.87 billion, outperforming analyst expectations amid a global pandemic and showing signs of a successful (and ongoing) reorientation of its business strategy. ...Full Article
DARPA Chip Effort Pivots to Securing US Supply Chain
A three-year-old Defense Department electronics initiative is bearing fruit in the form of public-private partnerships in areas ranging from post-Moore’s Law chip architectures to the growing national security requirement ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Touts ‘Supercomputer-class AI’ with Nvidia A100 GPU Instances
Microsoft Azure continues to infuse its cloud platform with HPC- and AI-directed technologies. Today the cloud services purveyor announced a new virtual machine family aimed at “supercomputer-class AI,” backed ...Full Article
Neuromorphic Computing to Assist Children Who Use Wheelchairs
Intel’s neuromorphic chip has learned to smell, learned to touch – and now, it’s here to help. The chip, which mimics the behavior of the human brain, is being ...Full Article
IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, ...Full Article
Photonics Processor Aimed at AI Inference
Silicon photonics is exhibiting greater innovation as requirements grow to enable faster, lower-power chip interconnects for traditionally power-hungry applications like AI inferencing. With that in mind, scientists at Massachusetts ...Full Article
AI/ML in Broadband Networks: the Role of Standards
Earlier this year a new initiative to create standards for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the cable telecommunications industry was launched. The working group, which draws ...Full Article
AI Chip Start-up Groq to Detail Technology Progress in Fall
AI chip startup Groq announced this week it had closed its most recent funding round, saying the new investments will help it double in size by the end of ...Full Article
US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships
As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed ...Full Article
‘Unified Platform’ Accelerates Air Force DevSecOps
The U.S. military’s embrace of Silicon Valley-style agile software development now extends to quick turn-around programming required to respond to evolving cyber threats. Among the earliest attempts to break ...Full Article
