AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence
At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with ...Full Article
Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets
Among the growing list of security threats expected to expand in the coming year are hackers probing emerging software-defined infrastructure for vulnerabilities. According to a security forecast released this ...Full Article
Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age
Last week at SC16, Intel revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also ...Full Article
GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for ...Full Article
IBM Eyes Enterprise Workloads With PowerAI
Last year at SC15, IBM offered its vision of an accelerator-assisted computing paradigm enabled by the OpenPOWER ecosystem of diverse partners and focused on cognitive computing as the key ...Full Article
HPC Meets AI and Creates New Grand Challenges
The intersection of HPC and AI is creating a vibrant new market: “High Performance Artificial Intelligence” (HPAI) that is fueling the growth of AI platforms and products. After decades ...Full Article
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode this week with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning ...Full Article
Passing Go: Augmented Intelligence and the Improvement, Not Replacement, of Us
Recently I had an interesting exchange about the rise of artificial intelligence and its implications. The discussion was centered around Google's AI-fueled AlphaGo program, which trounced Lee Sedol, the ...Full Article
IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should ...Full Article
Tech Mergers Tick Up in Q3
Technology merger and acquisition activity picked up during the third quarter, led by SoftBank Group's blockbuster deal in July to acquire U.K. processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. immediately ...Full Article
