Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel and TSMC to spur development of new chip factories in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal ...Full Article
Will COVID Revive Regional Manufacturing?
The vulnerabilities of global supply chains exposed by the pandemic have reignited calls for reconstituting regional production capabilities with the ultimate goal of “reshoring” manufacturing—mainly from China. Those efforts ...Full Article
Server Market Gets a Hefty COVID Boost
The global server market extended its rally into the first quarter of 2020 as the pandemic-prompted global lockdown boosted enterprise reliance on cloud services. Surging demand for hyperscale cloud ...Full Article
Intel Expands Mobileye, Nvidia Buys Cumulus Networks
Intel Corp. moved this week to expand its Mobileye unit with the acquisition of a transportation data startup while GPU leader Nvidia acquired network software specialist Cumulus Networks as ...Full Article
AMD’s Q1 Sets Records and Meets Expectations, but COVID-19 Looms
AMD has reported its Q1 2020 revenue, slightly outperforming analyst expectations and dodging the first financial blows of COVID-19 to deliver $1.79 billion – a whopping 40 percent year-over-year ...Full Article
‘Natural Language Understanding’ Appliance Targets the Email Deluge
“Eighty percent of customer service should go to the other 20 percent.” - Yogi Berra Like many things he said, Yogi never said that. But the statement gets ...Full Article
Micron Releases Open Source Storage Engine
Growing enterprise demand for object-based storage along with the proliferation of all-flash memory infrastructure has prompted one hardware vendor to release an open source version of its memory-class storage ...Full Article
GPU-Driven Near-time Valuation Coming to Derivatives Market – Microsoft
Microsoft Azure and an AI startup named Riskfuel – along with Nvidia GPUs – have teamed to deliver deep learning based near-time valuations of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, a capability ...Full Article
Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of ...Full Article
Taiwan Is Open for Business: A COVID-19 Tech Template
Taiwan, tech-savvy and pandemic-prepared, has emerged as the gold standard for containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Using hard lessons learned from previous epidemics, frequent earthquakes and other ...Full Article
