What Bezos Leaving as CEO Means for Amazon and AWS
As Jeff Bezos prepares to give up Amazon’s CEO seat to become the company’s executive chair in the third quarter of 2021, the big question now being asked is ...Full Article
AI Startup Granulate Gets $30M B Round Funding as it Gains Traction in Data Centers
Granulate Cloud Solutions, the AI-based optimization software startup, announced its second financing round in 10 months as adoption of its data center workload accelerator gains traction among enterprise customers ...Full Article
Graphcore IPU Gets a Public Cloud Boost
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding its roster of cloud partners to include Cirrascale Cloud Partners, a deep learning infrastructure specialist. The result of the collaboration is ...Full Article
DataCore Expands Storage Options for Customers with Caringo Deal
Fueled by enterprise deployments of hyperconverged infrastructure, the software-defined storage market is booming. That trend has prompted DataCore Software to acquire object storage specialist Caringo Inc., enabling the buyer ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Certified Server Program Offering Pre-Built Servers for AI Applications
Nvidia today launched a certified systems program in which participating vendors can offer Nvidia-certified servers with up to eight A100 GPUs. Separate support contracts directly from Nvidia for the ...Full Article
China Unveils Its First 7nm Chip
Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor Co. is claiming China’s first 7-nanometer chip, described as a leading-edge, general-purpose cloud computing chip based on a proprietary GPU architecture. Dubbed “Big Island” GPGPU, ...Full Article
Edge AI Startup Kneron Attracts New Investors
Kneron Inc., the AI startup specializing in “on-device” edge inferencing applications, has raised additional funding in the form of investments by Taiwanese manufacturing powerhouses Foxconn and Winbond. San Diego-based ...Full Article
Google, Nokia Partnering to Create Cloud-Native 5G Wireless Services for the Edge
Google Cloud and Nokia will collaborate to help telecom carriers upgrade core network infrastructure with cloud-native 5G wireless services. The capabilities could be used to extend 5G bandwidth to ...Full Article
AI, Quantum Patents Soared in 2020
Machine learning was among the fastest growing technologies in terms of U.S. patent grants during 2020, an annual survey reveals. AI and machine learning ranked fourth in a list ...Full Article
Acacia, Cisco Trade Claims in Merger Fight
A dispute over Chinese regulatory approval of its acquisition of Acacia Communications Inc. prompted Cisco Systems to seek a court order compelling the optical component maker to move ahead ...Full Article