Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

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Microsoft will reportedly debut new Qualcomm-powered Surface devices in May

Microsoft Corp. will hold a hardware event in May where it’s expected to debut consumer versions of its enterprise-focused Surface Pro tablet and Surface Laptop. The Verge reported the plan today, citing people familiar with the matter. A media invitation distributed by Microsoft stated that the event will see Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella detail ...

Dell expands infrastructure portfolio with new Nvidia-powered AI platforms

Dell Technologies Inc. is rolling out a set of infrastructure offerings, including new servers, that promise to help enterprises more efficiently train and run artificial intelligence models. The company announced the products against the backdrop of Nvidia Corp.’s closely watched GTC developer conference. According to Dell, its new servers are compatible with the B200 Tensor ...

ClearML debuts open-source Fractional GPU tool and new monitoring features

ClearML today released a set of software tools designed to help companies use their artificial intelligence infrastructure more efficiently. San Francisco-based ClearML, officially Allegro Artificial Intelligence Ltd, is backed by $11 million in funding. It provides a software platform that developers can use to train AI models, deploy them in production and manage the data ...

Cisco completes its $28B acquisition of Splunk

Cisco Systems Inc. today completed its $28 billion purchase of Splunk, the largest acquisition in the networking giant’s four-decade history. Rumors that a takeover was on the table first emerged in early 2022. Cisco officially inked the deal about 18 months later, in September 2023, at a price of $157 per Splunk share. The all-cash ...

Samsung expected to win $6B+ in CHIPS Act funding

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reportedly poised to receive more than $6 billion from the federal government to expand its chip manufacturing infrastructure in the U.S. Bloomberg reported the development late Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The sources detailed that several of Samsung’s top rivals in the chip market are also set to ...

Report: Apple quietly acquired AI-powered quality assurance startup DarwinAI

Apple Inc. has reportedly acquired DarwinAI Corp., a startup with a platform for finding manufacturing faults in printed circuit boards. Bloomberg reported the deal today, citing people familiar with the matter. The sources detailed that the acquisition closed earlier this year but didn’t specify the price tag. It’s believed that several dozen DarwinAI employees joined ...

Zscaler acquires cybersecurity data processing startup Avalor for reported $350M

Zscaler Inc. has acquired Avalor Technologies Inc., a startup that helps companies analyze the vulnerability data generated by their cybersecurity tools. The companies announced the deal today. Zscaler detailed that it’s financing the acquisition, which closed on Wednesday, with a combination of cash and stock, but didn’t disclose the price tag. Globes reported that the ...

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin assembling consortium to buy TikTok

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is organizing an investor consortium to buy TikTok from its parent company ByteDance Ltd. Mnuchin, who is the managing director of private equity firm Liberty Strategic Capital, detailed the effort in an interview on CNBC today. Asked whether the investor group has already been assembled, he responded, “I’m working on ...

IoT security startup Nozomi Networks closes $100M funding round

Nozomi Networks Inc., a startup that helps companies secure their factory robots and other connected devices, has raised $100 million in a late-stage funding. The software maker announced the Series E round today. It raised the capital from an investor consortium that included Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Schneider Electric SE, two major manufacturers of industrial ...

Cerebras Systems debuts wafer-scale AI training chip with 4T transistors

Semiconductor startup Cerebras Systems Inc. today debuted a new wafer-sized chip, the WSE-3, that features 4 trillion transistors organized into nearly 1 million cores. The processor is optimized for artificial intelligence training workloads. Cerebras claims a server cluster equipped with 2048 WSE-3 chips can train Llama 2 70B, one of the most advanced open-source language ...