Todd R. Weiss

Quantum Vendor Partners with IBM on New QRNG Service

September 18th, 2020 Comments Off

IBM and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) have partnered to achieve progress on one of the major business aspirations for quantum computing – the goal of generating verified, truly random numbers that can be used for a wide range of ...

Future of Fintech on Display at HPC + AI Wall Street

September 17th, 2020 Comments Off

Those who tuned in for Tuesday's HPC + AI Wall Street event got a peak at the future of fintech and lively discussion of topics like blockchain, AI for risk management, and high-frequency trading, as told by a group ...

AI and IBM Watson Score to Make ESPN Fantasy Football Trades More Fair

September 16th, 2020 Comments Off

Millions of ESPN Fantasy Football team “owners” are now able to get help from IBM and its Watson AI computing services to ensure that the player trades they make using ESPN’s mobile apps can be completed more fairly and ...

Nvidia Buys Arm for $40B as SoftBank Sheds Chip IP Vendor to Raise Cash

September 14th, 2020 Comments Off

Nvidia is acquiring chip IP vendor Arm Ltd. for $40 billion from SoftBank in a blockbuster deal that catapults the graphics leader to a dominant position in the datacenter while helping troubled SoftBank reverse its financial woes. The deal, ...

NSF Partners with Amazon, Google, Intel, Accenture on Next Round of AI Institutes

September 9th, 2020 Comments Off

Amazon, Google, Intel and Accenture will contribute toward a $160 million partnership for the next round of eight AI Research Institutes scheduled for creation in late 2021 by the National Science Foundation. The announcement by the NSF marks the ...

Kneron’s Latest KL720 AI Chip Aims to Expand Enterprise AI Use Cases

September 9th, 2020 Comments Off

With its recently announced KL720 AI chip in early, low-level production, AI developer and chipmaker Kneron is busy imagining a wide range of customer use cases where the new silicon will offer promise in new markets. The KL720 chips ...

HPC + AI Wall Street Spotlights Cryptocurrencies, Infrastructure, More

September 8th, 2020 Comments Off

High performance computing has long been a driver of competitive advantage in banking and finance. Some of the first supercomputers deployed by industry were used to deliver fast analysis and decisive trading execution. Recently AI has entered the fray ...

Marvell Turning Its ThunderX3 Chip Line into a Custom Chip Platform

September 3rd, 2020 Comments Off

Arm chip maker Marvell Technologies sees custom chips as the wave of the future as customers clamor for custom-built processors to power a wide range of routers, switches, 5G hardware, IoT devices, appliances and other hardware. And to better ...

IDC: AI Spending Expected to Double Globally to $110B by 2024

August 28th, 2020 Comments Off

Global spending on artificial intelligence technologies will double to $110 billion by 2024 as AI use grows to bolster the competitiveness and digital transformations of more businesses and other organizations. That’s the conclusion of a new IDC Worldwide Artificial ...

Fueling AI to Grow the Economy Is Goal of 5 New NSF AI Institutes

August 27th, 2020 Comments Off

AI research by the National Science Foundation will expand to a broader range of businesses across the U.S. economy through five new NSF AI institutes being created at a cost of $100 million. The new initiatives, which were unveiled ...

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