Early Adopters Exercise Quantum Bits
For a technology that’s usually characterized as far off and in a distant galaxy, quantum computing has been steadily picking up steam. Just how close real-world applications are depends ...Full Article
Intel Buys Car Computer Vision Specialist Mobileye
Intel Corp. continued its foray into the autonomous vehicle sector this week with the acquisition of computer vision and machine-learning specialist Mobileye for about $15 billion in cash. Betting ...Full Article
Intel, Alibaba Demo FPGAs in Cloud
Chinese online retailer Alibaba is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a pilot program to leverage the chipmaker's Xeon-FPGA platform to accelerate the delivery of cloud-based enterprise applications. The partners ...Full Article
Facebook Upgrades Servers With AI Training
Facebook unveiled new compute and storage servers this week along with custom training server platform as part of a server "refresh." Along with its Bryce Canyon storage server and ...Full Article
Is Second Generation the Charm for ARM?
A new front in the heretofore Intel-dominated battle to deliver processing power to the datacenter opened this week when Microsoft and Cavium Inc., the ARM server processor specialist, announced ...Full Article
More Bad News for Gamblers – AI Wins…Again
AI-based poker playing programs have been upping the ante for lowly humans. Notably, several algorithms from Carnegie Mellon University (e.g. Libratus, Claudico, and Baby Tartanian8) have performed well. Writing ...Full Article
IBM Touts Hybrid Approach to Quantum Computing
IBM is attempting to move quantum computing to the mainstream via an application-programming interface and other software tools that would allow developers to build interfaces between its cloud-based quantum ...Full Article
Insight to Action: 8 Analytics Trends for the New Algorithmic Enterprise
“I spend millions on analytics, machine learning and big data. I have tons of insights. Too many insights. What I need is more action.” A CMO recently said this ...Full Article
IBM Extends Mainframe Support to Anaconda
IBM is expanding its embrace of big data analytics to include support on its open source mainframe for the Anaconda stack used by Python programmers. The company (NYSE: IBM) ...Full Article
Intel and Trump Announce $7B for Fab 42 Targeting 7nm
In what may be an attempt by President Trump to reset his turbulent relationship with the high tech industry, he and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich today announced plans to ...Full Article
