Xilinx Brings ‘Unique’ Composability and Flexibility to its New Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
FPGA vendor Xilinx has debuted its latest SmartNIC model, the Alveo SN1000, with integrated “composability” features that allow enterprise users to add their own custom networking functions to supplement ...Full Article
IBM, Red Hat Integration Continues as IBM Mainstreams Power Systems in Pivot to Cloud
As it continues to pivot to the cloud, IBM has unveiled a new Power-based private cloud rack product line that is also porting Red Hat OpenShift capabilities to its ...Full Article
With Long-Delayed JEDI Contract Stalled By Legal Fight, DoD May Go Multi-Cloud
The Pentagon is signaling it may embrace a multi-cloud strategy long favored by commercial users seeking to avoid vendor lock-in. With its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award ...Full Article
Peak AI Gets $21M Series B Funding Round, Expands Access to AI ‘Decision Intelligence’
AI deployments are steadily migrating to retail applications as commercial brands seek to get a better handle on supply chains along with marketing and sales. Increased demand for embedded ...Full Article
NASA’s Latest Mars Rover, Perseverance, Will Get Help from AI on the Red Planet
As NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, prepares to land on the Martian surface Feb. 18 (Thursday) after a seven-month flight to the red planet, the use of AI will ...Full Article
Sunlight’s AI Hypervisor Gains Nvidia GPU Support to Boost Edge Deployments
Sunlight, the U.K.-based specialist in virtualizing data-intensive applications, announced Nvidia GPU support for its “lightweight” hypervisor designed to boost the performance of edge AI deployments. GPU support for its ...Full Article
In Midst of Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage, DoD, Globalfoundries Expand Ties
The U.S. Defense Department and Globalfoundries are expanding their semiconductor manufacturing partnership by certifying the foundry’s most advanced fab complies with U.S. export controls intended to secure the chip ...Full Article
ENIAC at 75: Celebrating the World’s First Supercomputer
With little fanfare, today’s computer revolution was arguably born and announced through a small, innocuous, two-column story at the bottom of the front page of The New York Times ...Full Article
Pressure Mounts to Respond to Global Semiconductor Chip Shortage
Amid pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, chip makers are urging the Biden administration to include funding and tax incentives aimed at boosting semiconductor manufacturing and research in its economic recovery ...Full Article
Microsoft, HPE Bringing AI, Edge, Cloud to Earth Orbit in Preparation for Mars Missions
The International Space Station will soon get a delivery of powerful AI, edge and cloud computing tools from HPE and Microsoft Azure to expand technology experiments aimed at preparing ...Full Article
