IBM Unveils Power8 Linux Servers
Not long after revealing more details about its next-gen Power9 chip due in 2017, IBM has rolled out three new Power8-based Linux servers and a new version of its ...Full Article
Intel Buys Vision Chip Developer Movidius
Intel Corp. is acquiring low-power machine vision specialist Movidius in a bid to bolster its embedded visual computing capabilities. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced Tuesday (Sept. 6) it was buying ...Full Article
U.S. Announces New Compute for Manufacturing Projects
The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry ...Full Article
Power9 Gives IBM Leg Up Against x86
After offering OpenPower Summit attendees a limited preview in April, IBM is unveiling further details of its next-gen CPU, Power9, which the tech mainstay is counting on to regain market ...Full Article
Blockchains Unlocked to Boost IoT Interoperability
In a step towards greater interoperability for the Internet of Things, a Bay Area company has launched a platform that allows chipmakers to register Bluetooth and other network-enabled chips ...Full Article
IT Salaries Rise Along With Infrastructure Expansion
Companies, especially U.S. companies, investing the most in servers and other infrastructure also are investing more in IT managers, a new salary survey found. The DevOps salary report released ...Full Article
Boeing Uses Stat Data to Get the Lead Out
The manufacturing sector that is leading the way in factory automation and the leading edge of the Internet of Things, the so-called industrial IoT, is increasingly relying on statistical ...Full Article
It’s 3 a.m. — Do You Know What Your Cluster’s Doing?
Performance challenges in Hadoop environments are par for the course as organizations attempt to capture the benefits of big data. The growing ecosystem of tools and applications (including new ...Full Article
Eyeing IoT Expansion, SoftBank Buys ARM
Chip intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. is being acquired by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group in a bid to provide more of the semiconductor technology underlying future networks of ...Full Article
New Florida Chip R&D Center Targets Sensors
It's been a good month for advanced manufacturing research in the U.S. with an expansion of a government smart manufacturing effort followed this week by a new chip design ...Full Article
