Nvidia-Mellanox $6.8B Deal Gets EU Clearance
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has been granted unconditional approval by the European Union to acquire Israel networking company Mellanox Technologies, clearing a hurdle for the $6.8 billion deal, announced in March. ...Full Article
ANSYS, Azure Pair up for Digital Twin Cloud Offering
ANSYS, with its Twin Builder software, has teamed with Microsoft, and its Azure public cloud Digital Twins Platform, on a joint product strategy to take on the rapidly emerging ...Full Article
Intel’s Habana Deal Expands AI Reach to Edge
Intel continues to expand its push into AI silicon with the acquisition of Israeli-based Habana Labs, a specialist in deep learning accelerators for datacenters—a capability Intel hopes to extend ...Full Article
Cisco Aims Chips, Optical Links at Next-Gen Internet
Cisco Systems unveiled its networking framework of the future this week aimed at scaling internet performance for emerging enterprise workloads like AI and machine learning along with network routers ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost
An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding ...Full Article
Emerging AI Business Model Promotes Distributed ML
Pausing at the end of 2019 to take stock of where enterprise AI stands, a new business model floated over the last year encourages distributed model training through the ...Full Article
Medical Imaging Gets an AI Boost
AI technologies incorporated into diagnostic imaging tools have proven useful in eliminating confirmation bias, often outperforming human clinicians who may bring their own prejudices. Another issue slowing progress is ...Full Article
Kubernetes Boosts Performance, Adds Complexity
IT administrators have complained in recent industry surveys that infrastructure complexity is forcing them to spend more time monitoring systems. Many are looking to outsource monitoring tasks. Among the ...Full Article
ScaleMatrix and Nvidia Launch ‘Deploy Anywhere’ DGX HPC and AI in a Controlled Enclosure
HPC and AI in a phone booth: ScaleMatrix and Nvidia announced today at the SC19 conference in Denver a joint offering that puts up to 13 petaflops of Nvidia ...Full Article
Intel AI Summit: New ‘Keem Bay’ Edge VPU, AI Product Roadmap
At its AI Summit today in San Francisco, Intel touted a raft of AI training and inference hardware for deployments ranging from cloud to edge and designed to support ...Full Article
