DARPA, Chipmakers Seek Path Beyond Moore’s Law
The U.S. military long ago ceded dominance in electronics innovation to Silicon Valley, the DoD-backed powerhouse that has driven microelectronic generation for decades. With Moore's Law clearly running out ...Full Article
‘Colossus’ IPU Targets Datacenters, Cloud
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in 2017 with ...Full Article
Intel Rolls AI Toolkit
Intel has begun rolling out AI hardware previewed last fall with the release of its Movidius Neural Compute Stick, billed as a self-contained AI accelerator in a USB format ...Full Article
Quantum Computing in the Enterprise: Not So Wild a Dream
This publication examines the migration of HPC technologies from the specialized realms of supercomputing to business-ready solutions for compute- and data-intensive business problems. As such, we don't frequently cover ...Full Article
Intel Skylake: Xeon Goes from Chip to Platform
With yesterday’s New York unveiling of the new “Skylake” Xeon Scalable processors, Intel made multiple runs at multiple competitive threats and strategic markets. Skylake will carry Intel's flag in ...Full Article
The New World of Healthcare Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is having a profound impact on our society. According to IDC, the economic value of digital transformation is already more than 20 percent of global GDP. And ...Full Article
Deep Neural Networks: When, and When Not, to Use
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been with us for well over half a century, but confusion still exists regarding what it is and where it is best applied. This is ...Full Article
Survey Sees Major Middleware Overhaul
Among the implications of the enterprise migration to the cloud is a predicted overhaul of middleware platforms over the next several years as the integration of business applications drives ...Full Article
Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance
There were few surprises in Intersect360 Research’s just released report on interconnect use in advanced scale computing. InfiniBand and Ethernet remain the dominant protocols across all segments (system, storage, ...Full Article
Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership
Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently announced 120 TFLOPS Volta GPUs to ...Full Article
