Better, More Efficient Neural Inferencing Means Embracing Change
Artificial intelligence is running into some age-old engineering tradeoffs. For example, increasing the accuracy of neural networks typically means increasing the size of the networks. That requires more compute ...Full Article
In IBM Executive Shuffle Just Before the July 4th Weekend, IBM President Jim Whitehurst is Out
Jim Whitehurst, the former Delta Air Lines COO who joined Red Hat in January 2008 and led the open source and Linux company as it was acquired by IBM ...Full Article
WHO Releases Its First-Ever Report Offering Guiding Principles for AI Use in Healthcare
Fueled by ethics and privacy concerns about the use of AI in healthcare, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report calling for the use of six “guiding ...Full Article
With Approvals in from the EC and the UK, AMD’s $35B Acquisition of Xilinx Now up to China
AMD’s planned acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx is now in the hands of Chinese regulators after needed antitrust approvals for the $35 billion deal were received from the European ...Full Article
Nvidia Arm Merger Proposal Gets Support from 3 Rival Chip Companies
Since Nvidia proposed to acquire chip IP vendor Arm last September for $40 billion, several major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft and rival chipmaker Qualcomm, continue to vocally oppose ...Full Article
Nvidia Adds Arm Support to Its 5G Aerial Platform, Partners with Google on AI-on-5G Innovation Lab
Deepening its ongoing integration of AI and 5G, Nvidia will be giving customers the option to use Arm-based CPUs with its growing Aerial A100 AI-on-5G platform, while also partnering ...Full Article
Ferrari Revs Up the Performance of Its Sports Cars and Racing Team with AWS Cloud Services
Ferrari, the legendary Italian sports car builder with some 239 race victories in Formula 1, has signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster the performance and ...Full Article
The Rise of AI-Powered Machine Vision Has Implications for Enterprise Data Management
AI-powered machine vision is becoming much more capable and widespread every day. New applications of machine vision and AI are being developed at a rapid rate, most notably in ...Full Article
Intel CEO Gelsinger Makes Exec Changes, Revamps AI and Data Center, Network and Edge Groups
Four months after taking over the reins of Intel Corp., CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced a string of executive leadership changes as he works to shake things up inside ...Full Article
With ‘Dojo’ in the Future, Tesla Reveals Its Massive Precursor Supercomputer
Tesla first made a cryptic reference to it's project Dojo, a “super-powerful training computer” for video data processing, in 2019. Later, in the summer of 2020, Tesla CEO Elon ...Full Article