Red Hat in Middle of IBM-AT&T’s Expanded 5G, Cloud Pact
Ranked behind only the Dell-EMC and Avago-Broadcom acquisitions as the largest in the history of the technology industry, IBM’s $34 billion blockbuster purchase of Red Hat, announced last October ...Full Article
AI’s Carbon Footprint May Be Bigger Than You Think
Data centers and supercomputers running AI workloads consume a lot of power, and power use causes carbon emissions. That’s generally known, but it’s not widely appreciated just how energy- ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands DGX-Ready AI Program to 19 Countries
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered servers for AI workloads, has expanded the ...Full Article
Nvidia, Google Tie in Second MLPerf Training ‘At-Scale’ Round
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at-scale ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: July 2019 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each ...Full Article
Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within ...Full Article
Accenture Looks to Mix, Match Quantum, Digital Computing
When and where to leverage emerging quantum computing technology for enterprise applications is the framework embodied in a recent U.S. patent awarded to Accenture. U.S. Patent No. 10,275,721 announced ...Full Article
Atos, Google Cloud Bring HPC Servers to Oracle Database Workloads
Powered by Atos BullSequana S x86-based HPC servers, Oracle users can soon run database workloads in conjunction with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The news, announced by Atos in ...Full Article
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based ...Full Article
Smart Cities Fend off AI Winter
With all the breakthroughs in AI in recent years, it’s hard to fathom why an AI Winter would happen. But it’s actually a matter of debate at the moment, ...Full Article
