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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).

Intel, MediaTek Prep a 5G Modem

August 6th, 2020 Comments Off on Intel, MediaTek Prep a 5G Modem
Asia remains the locus for 5G development and deployment, with wireless carriers deploying based stations by the hundreds of thousands and the number of 5G networks deployed around the world approaching 100, according to wireless industry estimates. Connecting devices ...

Virtuous Cycle: AI Helps 5G Deliver Data for New AI Models

August 6th, 2020 Comments Off on Virtuous Cycle: AI Helps 5G Deliver Data for New AI Models
Artificial intelligence and 5G wireless are moving in tandem toward autonomous, self-healing networks able to maximize operational efficiency and reliability while leveraging new troves of network data to forecast bandwidth and power demands—all with “killer” low latency. That’s the ...

Syntiant, AI Chip Specialist, Raises Funds, Ramps Production

August 5th, 2020 Comments Off on Syntiant, AI Chip Specialist, Raises Funds, Ramps Production
Syntiant Corp., the “neural decision processor” startup, announced completion of another funding round this week along with the shipment of more than 1 million low-power edge AI chips. The three-year-old startup based in Irvine, Calif., said Tuesday (Aug. 4) ...

Arm, Vodafone Demo Virtual Telco Platform

August 5th, 2020 Comments Off on Arm, Vodafone Demo Virtual Telco Platform
The telecommunications sector is embracing enterprise technologies such as server virtualization via an emerging deployment model dubbed universal CPE, for customer premises equipment. CPE generally includes on-premise equipment such as routers, network switches and base stations as well as ...

Nvidia Leads Booming Ethernet Adapter Market

August 4th, 2020 Comments Off on Nvidia Leads Booming Ethernet Adapter Market
Among the growing list of pandemic-driven technology segments are programable Ethernet adapters being deployed by cloud service providers as they scramble to meet bandwidth demand generated by homes offices. The server and Ethernet adapter boom also have accelerated deployments ...

OpenShift Gets Virtual Upgrades to Handle Mixed Workloads

August 4th, 2020 Comments Off on OpenShift Gets Virtual Upgrades to Handle Mixed Workloads
Red Hat continues to expand its OpenShift container applications platform with virtualization capabilities aimed at virtual machine-based workloads while integrating VM tools into its enterprise Linux distribution to handle emerging cloud-native applications. Cloud-native security tools for OpenShift were also ...

Analog Devices, Intel Partner on Open 5G Radios

August 3rd, 2020 Comments Off on Analog Devices, Intel Partner on Open 5G Radios
Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. are collaborating on a 5G wireless network design based on an emerging open standard with the goal of developing flexible radio platforms that would help carriers scale 5G network deployments. The wireless partnership ...

Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal

August 3rd, 2020 Comments Off on Nvidia Said to Be Close on Arm Deal
GPU leader Nvidia Corp. is in talks to buy U.K. chip designer Arm from parent company Softbank, according to several reports over the weekend. If consummated, analysts said the acquisition would cement Nvidia’s status as a full-service chip vendor ...

Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool

July 30th, 2020 Comments Off on Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool
A machine programming framework for heterogeneous computing championed by Intel Corp. and university partners is built around an automated engine that analyzes code for similarities. The approach could eventually allow non-programmers to create software based on intent. Intel (NASDAQ: ...

Cloud Doubts Mean Datacenters Aren’t Going Away

July 29th, 2020 Comments Off on Cloud Doubts Mean Datacenters Aren’t Going Away
The death of the enterprise datacenter has been greatly exaggerated, an annual survey finds, adding that on-premises infrastructure is “neither dead nor dying” despite a migration of some critical workloads to public clouds. The Uptime Institute’s annual datacenter survey ...
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