Reports: Nvidia Deal for Arm Advances
Update: Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8pm ET, Arm and Nvidia announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank in a transaction valued at $40 ...Full Article
AI Struggles to Outperform Diagnosticians
Among the most promising medical applications for artificial intelligence is image recognition as a diagnostic tool. AI algorithms are approaching the capabilities of radiologists, and groups like the American ...Full Article
Edge Computing Seen Transitioning to ‘Intelligent Edge’
The extension of cloud computing capabilities from datacenters to the somewhat amorphous network edge, variously defined as a connected device, appliance or a network gateway, is morphing into something ...Full Article
NSF Partners with Amazon, Google, Intel, Accenture on Next Round of AI Institutes
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 ...Full Article
DataRobot Trains Its AI to Predict Genres Based on Album Covers
Scrolling through your music library, you may have noticed particular patterns in aesthetics among artists in particular genres. Enterprise AI firm DataRobot agrees: in a post on DataRobot’s blog, ...Full Article
Kneron’s Latest KL720 AI Chip Aims to Expand Enterprise AI Use Cases
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 ...Full Article
Google Expands Memory Encryption to Kubernetes
Google Cloud and AMD unveiled a “confidential computing” initiative over the summer that maintains data encryption in memory and elsewhere outside of the CPU. The scheme utilized hardware-based encryption ...Full Article
HPC + AI Wall Street Spotlights Cryptocurrencies, Infrastructure, More
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 ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: September 2020 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Victoria Coleman Victoria ...Full Article
Marvell Turning Its ThunderX3 Chip Line into a Custom Chip Platform
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 ...Full Article
