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).

Public Health Experts: COVID Contact Tracing Takes a Community

May 13th, 2020 Comments Off

Contact tracing, along with fast-turnaround testing and, where required, quarantining, are seen as the most effective ways of stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus. While digital contact tracing via apps and other tools is considered a valuable supplement ...

AI Edge Partners Unveil Video Analytics Server

May 12th, 2020 Comments Off

Hailo, the AI chip startup, is teaming with a Japanese systems designer and manufacturing giant Foxconn to develop an AI edge processor aimed at video analytics applications. The edge partnership is based on Foxconn Technology’s BOXiedge platform that integrates ...

Inspur Takes OCP Beyond Hyperscalers

May 12th, 2020 Comments Off

Inspur, China’s server leader, is expanding its AI offerings based on Open Compute Project specifications, including an OCP “cloud optimized” server geared to SAP HANA workloads and running Intel’s Optane persistent memory backed by its latest Xeon Scalable processor. ...

COVID Prompts a Shift in AI Sentiment

May 11th, 2020 Comments Off

COVID-19 has significantly shifted consumer sentiment towards automation technologies, including robot deliveries and AI-based chatbots used in telemedicine applications. However, a new AI sentiment report also finds the novel coronavirus has failed to move the sentiment needle when it ...

Will COVID Revive Regional Manufacturing?

May 7th, 2020 Comments Off

The vulnerabilities of global supply chains exposed by the pandemic have reignited calls for reconstituting regional production capabilities with the ultimate goal of “reshoring” manufacturing—mainly from China. Those efforts are gaining momentum as investors, perhaps willing to assume greater ...

Server Market Gets a Hefty COVID Boost

May 6th, 2020 Comments Off

The global server market extended its rally into the first quarter of 2020 as the pandemic-prompted global lockdown boosted enterprise reliance on cloud services. Surging demand for hyperscale cloud services as work-from-home requirements kicked in boosted global server shipments ...

IoT Deployments Appear Immune to Pandemic

May 5th, 2020 Comments Off

Internet of Things connections driven by early industrial deployments and pandemic-driven telemedicine applications are projected to reach 83 billion by 2024, a 130 percent growth rate, as IoT platform revenues jump an estimated 20 percent this year to $66 ...

Intel Expands Mobileye, Nvidia Buys Cumulus Networks

May 4th, 2020 Comments Off

Intel Corp. moved this week to expand its Mobileye unit with the acquisition of a transportation data startup while GPU leader Nvidia acquired network software specialist Cumulus Networks as it seeks to make headway in software-defined datacenters relying more ...

IBM Extends Jupyter Notebooks for AI Development

May 1st, 2020 Comments Off

IBM has released a new open source toolkit with AI extensions to the popular Jupyter Notebooks data science development platform. The Elyra AI Toolkit extends the industry standard JupyterLab user interface with the goal of simplifying development of AI and other data science ...

Deep Learning Apps Seen Driving AI Software Revenues

April 30th, 2020 Comments Off

Machine vision, natural language processing, data analytics and other deep learning applications will propel global AI software revenues over the next five years via a growing list of industry segments spanning automotive and health care to financial services and ...