AI ‘Dual Use’ Poses New Security Threats
While the genie may already be out of the bottle, the rapid growth and broad availability of AI and machine learning technology along with a growing list of development ...Full Article
IoT Gets a Security Upgrade
Processor specialist Arm is extending its push into the Internet of Things security market with a device authentication effort based on the cellular technology mainstay, the SIM card. Meanwhile, ...Full Article
AI Cloud Competition Heats Up: Google’s Cloud TPUs, Amazon’s AI Chip
Competition in the white hot AI (and public cloud) market pits Google against Amazon this week, with Google offering AI hardware on its cloud platform intended to make it ...Full Article
Intel Debuts Xeon SoC for Edge Applications, Addresses ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ Fears
Intel has addressed the drive for increasingly powerful processing at the edge of systems and networks with the launch this week of the Xeon D-2100 SoC, designed to support ...Full Article
Startup Brings HPC Containers to the Enterprise
The driving force behind Singularity, the popular HPC container technology, is bringing the open source platform to the enterprise with the launch of a new venture, Sylabs Inc., which ...Full Article
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
