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Memory Boom Propels Samsung Past Intel
The turbulent—and profitable—memory chip market has a new leader: Samsung Electronics has overtaken Intel Corp. as the world's largest memory supplier, ending Intel's 25-year reign. Gartner reported Thursday (Jan. ...Full Article
Back to the Future – The Mainframe in a Connected World
Since the mid 90’s, industry watchers have predicted a slow, gradual death for the mainframe, as x86-based server farms and the cloud gained a stronger foothold in the high-performance ...Full Article
Blockchain Backers Planning Enterprise Rollouts
Among the growing list of blockchain initiatives launched this year, the open-source Hyperledger Project is gathering momentum with the release of its first production implementations, including the introduction of ...Full Article
Quotes that Rocked Our World in 2017
It’s been a fascinating year in advanced scale computing, much of that fascination focused on AI (broadly defined), now firmly established as the leitmotif of the high performance computing ...Full Article
Aggressive Push into New Growth Markets the ‘New Normal’ at Intel – Krzanich
In a year-end call-to-arms memo sent to Intel employees, CEO Brian Krzanich declared that “the new normal” at Intel will be change and risk-taking. According to a published story ...Full Article
Independent Hyperion Research Will Chart its Own Course
Hyperion Research, formerly the HPC research and consulting practice within IDC, has become an independent company with Earl Joseph, the long-time leader of the IDC HPC team, acquiring the ...Full Article
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Superhuman AI and the ‘Emergent Property’
At SC17 we sat down with industry luminary Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Vice President of HPE, for a somewhat philosophical conversation about the melding of HPC and HPDA (high ...Full Article
FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning
As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market ...Full Article
Gartner: Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 16% in Q3; Shipments Up 5.1%
Driven by expansion of hybrid cloud IT strategies, worldwide server revenue grew by a healthy 16 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2017, industry watcher Gartner has announced. ...Full Article
Andrew Ng Thinks AI Can Revive US Manufacturing
AI pioneer Andrew Ng is launching a startup that would initially focus on revitalizing manufacturing, a strategy that parallels the first enterprise deployments of Internet of Things technologies. Separately, ...Full Article
