Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
Global spending on semiconductors jumped a hefty 17 percent in 2017, driven by demand and corresponding price hikes for memory in datacenters and early industrial deployments of the Internet ...Full Article
Dell EMC Debuts PowerEdge Servers with AMD EPYC Chips
AMD notched another EPYC processor win today with Dell EMC’s introduction of three PowerEdge servers (R6415, R7415, and R7425) based on the EPYC 7000-series processor. AMD’s new chip line ...Full Article
Renée James, former Intel President, Heads New ARM-based Server Chip Venture
The “leadership journey” of Renée James, who held the highest rank of any woman in the history of Intel Corp., has emerged as CEO of a well-heeled, venture-backed company ...Full Article
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to ...Full Article
4IR: The Transformative Power of IoT and GIS
Society is at an interesting inflection point as the combination of big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) come together in what some are hailing as ...Full Article
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence ...Full Article
Rumors Swirl of Dell-VMware ‘Reverse-Merger’
Just days after reports surfaced of a major management overhaul at Dell EMC, this week new reports emerged that Dell Technologies – the umbrella organization that encompasses a raft ...Full Article
Vermont Launches Blockchain Project
Early efforts to use blockchain technology for financial transactions are gathering momentum with the launch of a pilot project between a blockchain startup and a Vermont city to use ...Full Article
AI-Employee Pairing: A Marriage Made in Workforce Heaven?
AI-phobia, particularly the fear that intelligent machines will destroy jobs, is firmly rooted in a portion of the general public. By contrast, most business leaders are eager to embrace ...Full Article
