U.S. AI Corps Seeks to Keep Pace with China
A proposed U.S. Digital Service Academy would create an AI software repository to support R&D while training the next generation of AI developers. According to recommendations released this week ...Full Article
Palantir, Rackspace Lead a Wave of Tech IPOs
Cloud and software vendors of various stripes and high-flying big data analytics provider Palantir Technologies have gauged financial market sentiments and decided now is the time to launch initial ...Full Article
DDR5 Memory Spec Doubles Data Rate, Quadruples Density
Standards group JEDEC announced the publication of the DDR5 SDRAM spec, the next-generation standard for random access memory (RAM). Compared to DDR4, the DDR5 spec delivers twice the performance ...Full Article
A New Approach to AIoT Data Infrastructure Using NVMe-oF Shared Flash Storage
The Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to comprise nearly 30 billion connected devices by 2023. These IoT devices create and transfer massive amounts of data over the network. ...Full Article
Get a Grip: Intel Neuromorphic Chip Used to Give Robotics Arm a Sense of Touch
Moving neuromorphic technology from the laboratory into practice has proven slow-going. This week, National University of Singapore researchers moved the needle forward demonstrating an event-driven, visual-tactile perception system that ...Full Article
Graphcore Introduces Next-Gen Intelligence Processing Unit for AI Workloads
British hardware designer Graphcore, which emerged from stealth in 2016 to launch its first-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), has announced its next-generation IPU platform: the IPU-Machine M2000. With the ...Full Article
App Tracing Startup Emerges from Stealth
As enterprise software architectures evolve beyond monolithic applications to delivering micro-services, debugging tools like distributed tracing are emerging to detect cyberattacks against one of the foundations of cloud-native deployments: ...Full Article
Altair Shows Off Converged Analytics Lineup
If you’re in the market for analytics or machine learning software, you may want to keep your eyes on Altair Engineering. Best known for its product simulation and computer ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a Traffic Manager
The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the adoption of a traffic manager for easing access to the orchestrator’s application services. The control plane called Contour was contributed to ...Full Article
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google ...Full Article
