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Author Archives: George Leopold
George Leopold
George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).NSF, VMware Partner on IT Sustainability
September 1st, 2020 Comments Off on NSF, VMware Partner on IT Sustainability
An oft overlooked virtue of virtual machines is the replacement of IT infrastructure like servers with a more energy-efficient abstracted version of hardware. That advance has contributed to sustainability gains over the last decade. Datacenters running huge numbers of ...
New DARPA Director Brings AI Expertise
August 31st, 2020 Comments Off on New DARPA Director Brings AI Expertise
The Pentagon’s top research agency is extending its technology chops with the appointment of a new director with extensive industry experience in strategic sectors ranging from AI to underlying microelectronics. The Defense Department announced Monday (Aug. 31) that Victoria ...
China Dominates AI Patent Filings
August 31st, 2020 (1)
China’s patent office accounted for nearly two-thirds of all AI applications received over the past two years, underscoring how Beijing has become a fierce defender of intellectual property linked to what planners consider a strategic technology. As Chinese and ...
GPU Market Posts Unexpected Q2 Gains
August 28th, 2020 Comments Off on GPU Market Posts Unexpected Q2 Gains
The booming graphics processor market is not immune to pandemic uncertainty, with forecasting metrics such as “seasonality” becoming increasingly problematic. For instance, graphics board shipments jumped 6.6 percent sequentially in the second quarter, up 36.7 percent year-on-year, according to ...
Blockchain Network Filecoin Looks to Disrupt Cloud Storage
August 28th, 2020 Comments Off on Blockchain Network Filecoin Looks to Disrupt Cloud Storage
A blockchain-based effort expected to be launched next month is intended to do nothing less than decentralize and disrupt the highly-concentrated cloud storage market. The Filecoin Network is promoted as bypassing incumbent cloud storage providers and their business model ...
AI Emerges as US Priority in Budget Talks
August 27th, 2020 Comments Off on AI Emerges as US Priority in Budget Talks
Among a lengthy list of U.S. technology initiatives included in pending budget legislation is a proposed National Artificial Intelligence Initiative that would be managed across several science agencies. The AI initiative is incorporated into the House version of the ...
Pure Storage Upgrades All-Flash Array
August 26th, 2020 Comments Off on Pure Storage Upgrades All-Flash Array
Pure Storage released the second generation of its all-flash array this week, positioning it as an enterprise-grade storage platform for “capacity-oriented” workloads. The company (NYSE: PSTG) also claimed its storage platform is the first all-QLC storage array, as in ...
DARPA Strengthens Ties with Arm
August 26th, 2020 Comments Off on DARPA Strengthens Ties with Arm
Arm Ltd. is expanding its partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to provide greater access to its semiconductor intellectual property portfolio under an umbrella DARPA microelectronics initiative. The U.K chip vendor has been a key supplier on ...
The Opening of 5G Networks Takes Shape
August 25th, 2020 Comments Off on The Opening of 5G Networks Takes Shape
Momentum is building to pull apart and expose 5G network interfaces in hopes of developing open source software for key components like radio access networks, or RANs. Among the goals is expanding the ecosystem of 5G developers as the ...
AMD, Google Encrypt Data on Confidential VMs
August 25th, 2020 Comments Off on AMD, Google Encrypt Data on Confidential VMs
AMD and Google Cloud are collaborating on a “confidential VM” security effort that uses encrypted virtualization to secure data “in use”. The confidential cloud computing effort is based on AMD’s latest EPYC processors incorporating hardware-based encryption in the chip ...