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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).AI for Cloud Security Attracts Venture Funding
June 11th, 2019 Comments Off on AI for Cloud Security Attracts Venture Funding
Vectra, the cloud security platform vendor, has raised an additional $100 million in its latest funding round led by TCV, an early investor in technology companies ranging Facebook to Splunk. Vectra specializes in AI-based network detection and response technology ...
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
June 7th, 2019 Comments Off on Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto Technologies announced a $58 million funding round. The chip IP vendor ...
Google Eyes Multi-Cloud Analytics With Looker Deal
June 6th, 2019 Comments Off on Google Eyes Multi-Cloud Analytics With Looker Deal
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Google Cloud said Thursday (June 6) Looker’s platform ...
Microsoft, Oracle Link Their Clouds
June 5th, 2019 Comments Off on Microsoft, Oracle Link Their Clouds
Public cloud rivals Microsoft and Oracle are collaborating to allow customers to migrate and run enterprise workloads across each other’s cloud. Market analysts said the partnership illustrates how multi-cloud deployments are creating opportunities for cloud providers to offer services ...
Infineon Boosts Auto, IoT Portfolios with Cypress Deal
June 4th, 2019 Comments Off on Infineon Boosts Auto, IoT Portfolios with Cypress Deal
Infineon Technologies’ acquisition of Silicon Valley mainstay Cypress Semiconductor Corp. underscores what increasingly looks like the end of an era for high-flying U.S. chip makers that have seen their fortunes dim as semiconductor manufacturing shifts to Asia and the ...
Air Force, MIT Collaborate on AI Research
May 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Air Force, MIT Collaborate on AI Research
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with the U.S. Air Force to develop new AI technologies with potential dual-use applications. The Air Force plans to invest about $15 million annually in the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Basic research ...
AMD Spotlights HPC Processor, GPU Roadmaps
May 28th, 2019 Comments Off on AMD Spotlights HPC Processor, GPU Roadmaps
Advanced Micro Devices continued to play its hot hand at this week’s Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, highlighting its processor roadmap at the cutting-edge 7-nanometer process node that includes the next generation of its Rome HPC processor for datacenters ...
Microsoft AI ‘Distills’ Knowledge with New NLP Approach
May 24th, 2019 Comments Off on Microsoft AI ‘Distills’ Knowledge with New NLP Approach
A technique known as “ensemble learning” has been used to improve the performance of natural language processing models. However, the approach typically consists of hundreds of different deep neural network models, making deployment prohibitively expensive owing to the heavy ...
AI Projects Stalled by Messy Data
May 23rd, 2019 Comments Off on AI Projects Stalled by Messy Data
Tens of billions will be spent this year on AI development, but those efforts continue to be stymied by ratty data that has undermined model training efforts and burned through project budgets. That’s the sobering conclusion of a vendor ...
Kubernetes Seen Driving Bare-Metal Comeback
May 21st, 2019 Comments Off on Kubernetes Seen Driving Bare-Metal Comeback
Hardware vendors are betting the transition to 5G wireless networks supporting myriad connected consumer and industrial devices also will accelerate the shift to heavy-duty bare-metal servers as a way to provision cloud-native tools like the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. The ...