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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).

China’s AI Goals Remain ‘Aspirational’

July 31st, 2018 Comments Off

China launched an aggressive AI strategy last year that “set a very ambitious goal for AI industry development in China between now and 2030,” according to Xiaomeng Lu, international public policy manager for technology consultant Access Partnership. Lu nevertheless stressed ...

AWS Joins Cloud Memory Push

July 27th, 2018 Comments Off

Public cloud vendors are focusing their infrastructure upgrades on the growing number of memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Earlier this week, Google rolled out virtual machines that support persistent memory for in-memory workloads. Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) countered with a ...

Samsung Said to be Readying New GPU Design

July 26th, 2018 Comments Off

Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, is reportedly developing a new graphics processor and has hired a former Nvidia GPU architect to bring the chip to fruition. Jon Peddie, an industry analyst who tracks the graphics market, reported this ...

Google Cloud Adds Another Nvidia GPU

July 25th, 2018 Comments Off

Google continues to add GPU horsepower in tandem with its internally developed deep learning processors to its cloud platform with this week’s announcement that it will soon offer Nvidia’s Tesla P4 processors for AI inferencing workloads. Among many partnership ...

DARPA Effort Pushes Beyond Moore’s Law

July 24th, 2018 Comments Off

Responding to market forces that are driving the otherwise vibrant global electronics industry toward narrower computing applications and away from the next wave of innovation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is pouring $1.5 billion into “foundational enhancements” designed ...

SAP HANA Gets Intel Memory Boost on Google Cloud

July 23rd, 2018 Comments Off

Intel Corp. and SAP are joining forces with Google to offer cloud virtual machines supporting persistent memory for in-memory workloads running on the SAP HANA relational database manager. The partners announced the Google cloud virtual machines would support the ...

Google, VMware Partner on Hybrid Cloud Tools

July 20th, 2018 Comments Off

Google and VMware are collaborating on a new cloud plug-in connecting a pair of VMware tools designed to enable provisioning of virtual machines and storage on the search giant’s cloud. The partners this week released a preview version of ...

Seeq, IIoT Analytics Vendor, Raises Cash

July 19th, 2018 Comments Off

Seeq Corp., a developer of analytics software for manufacturing and industrial Internet of Things applications, has raised an additional $23 million in a recent funding round that included the investment arms of Chevron and Siemens. The industrial analytics vendor ...

Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars

July 18th, 2018 Comments Off

Google continues to extend the reach of its cloud platform with a new feature that allows cloud customers to deploy commercial and open source applications ranging from databases and machine learning to analytics and big data via its in-house ...

Licensing Reform Movement Gathers Steam

July 17th, 2018 Comments Off

An effort to promote balanced licensing rules for open source software is gaining momentum with the addition of 14 new companies adopting guidelines designed primarily to reduce compliance errors. Open source leader Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) announced Monday (July 16) ...