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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Friday, February 7, 2025

The Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU delivers artificial intelligence at the edge for drones, robotics, smart cameras, virtual reality/augmented reality solutions and more. Introduced on Aug. 28, 2017, Myriad X is the world’s first SOC shipping with a dedicated Neural Compute Engine to give devices the ability to see, understand and react to their environments in real time.(Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel Debuts Myriad X Vision Processing Unit for Neural Net Inferencing

Intel today introduced the Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU) which Intel is calling the first vision processing system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a dedicated neural compute engine to accelerate ...Full Article

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AMD Lines Up New China Datacenter Partners

As the server market stalls, processor makers continue to search for greener pastures. Among the most promising is the booming Chinese datacenter market, where processor maker Advanced Micro Devices ...Full Article

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Tight DRAM Supplies Jar Server Market

Tightening global supplies of DRAM chips are beginning to bite with reports surfacing this week about rising server memory prices as chipmakers struggle to meet growing demand. Among the ...Full Article

4 Tech Giants Outline Battle Plans for High End Data Center Market of the 2020’s

Four companies engaged in a cage fight for leadership in the emerging “advanced data center” market of the 2020s are, despite deep differences in some areas, in violent agreement ...Full Article

As Datacenters Bulge, Switch Maker Claims Record

Cloud migrations, big data and mobility are reshaping the datacenter as more servers are linked and bandwidth capacity joins scaling as essential requirements. Those needs are creating opportunities for ...Full Article

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Overcoming SD-WAN FUD

When a promising new technology emerges, the initial excitement is soon over-shadowed by anxiety about taking on something new. SD-WAN is one such technology that has many CIOs on ...Full Article

Intel Moves on Blockchain, Self-Driving Cars

Chip giant Intel Corp. continues to diversify beyond its x86 roots into emerging markets ranging from autonomous vehicles to blockchain technology. It announced initiatives this week covering both, including ...Full Article

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Data Unification: A New Path to Digital Transformation

You may be familiar with the cliché that data is the new oil and analytics is the combustion engines that will power enterprises to corporate nirvana with all manner ...Full Article

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Solarflare’s ‘Micro-Segmentation Security’ Puts the Firewall Inside the Data Center

Solarflare, well-established on Wall Street for its low latency networking trading platforms, is moving beyond the financial services industry with a general-purpose hardware server firewall that has some data ...Full Article

IBM Storage Breakthrough Paves Way for 330TB Tape Cartridges

IBM has announced a new record for magnetic tape storage that it says will keep tape storage density on a Moore’s Law-like path far into the next decade. In ...Full Article