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Microsoft adds ‘third dimension’ to Excel with custom data types
Microsoft Corp. today introduced new data management features for Excel that will make it easier to work with spreadsheets containing complex, regularly updated information. For most of its history, Excel only allowed users to fill spreadsheets with text, numbers and formulas. Microsoft last year took an initial step toward changing that by adding support for ...
Intel to acquire AI hyperparameter optimization startup SigOpt
Intel Corp. today said that it’s buying Andreessen Horowitz-backed artificial intelligence startup SigOpt Inc. for an undisclosed sum. SigOpt, based in San Francisco, develops a software platform that is used by private firms and research groups such as OpenAI to boost the performance of their AI models. Its platform improves model performance through a method known as ...
Marvell to pay $10B for network chipmaker Inphi
Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. today said it has inked a $10 billion deal to acquire Inphi Corp., a maker of semiconductors for optical networks. The deal is a cash-and-stock transaction. Marvell estimates that absorbing Inphi will give it an enterprise value of $40 billion, while growing the size of its addressable market to $24 billion. Marvell’s ...
Honeywell reveals 10-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer
Honeywell International Inc. today introduced a 10-qubit quantum computer, the System H1, that it will make available to enterprise customers via the cloud. Honeywell is one of the world’s major makers of industrial and aerospace gear. It made a surprise return into computing this March, about 30 years after exiting the market, by revealing that ...
AMD debuts new 26.8B-transistor consumer graphics cards
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today introduced a trio of graphics processing units for consumer desktops that pack 26.8 billion transistors and an upgraded architecture dubbed RDNA 2. The three chips form AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000 product series. The series challenges the high-end RTX GPU line from Nvidia Corp., the leading maker of standalone graphics ...
Infrastructure-as-code startup Pulumi bags $37.5M round
Pulumi Corp. today said that it has raised $37.5 million from investors to expand the user base and capabilities of its infrastructure-as-code platform, which enables companies to automate the management of their cloud environments. The startup’s platform is already logging more than a million downloads per month. Deploying an enterprise application on a cloud platform ...
SpaceX starts beta program for its Starlink satellite network
SpaceX Corp. today launched the public beta test program for its Starlink internet network, which uses satellites deployed hundreds of miles above the Earth to deliver wireless connectivity. The launch is a milestone for a nascent field that could become quite competitive in the coming years. Amazon.com Inc. is building its own satellite constellation as part ...
Replicated raises $25M to build better on-premises software
Replicated Inc., a startup whose technology is used by major software makers such as UiPath Inc. to power their on-premises products, has picked up $25 million in fresh funding. Two Sigma Ventures led the round with participation from existing backers. The investment was announced today. Enterprise software is increasingly delivered via the cloud rather than as a ...
It’s official: As it reports strong earnings, AMD will snap up Xilinx for $35B
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today confirmed recent acquisition reports by announcing that it has inked a $35 billion deal to buy Xilinx Inc., a maker of programmable chips used in systems ranging from data center servers to satellites. The $35 billion price tag represents a roughly 25% premium to Xilinx’s closing price. AMD will finance the transaction ...
Fungible launches DPU storage system with ‘unrivaled’ performance
Heavily funded data center startup Fungible Inc. today launched a new storage platform powered by its F1 data processing unit, or DPU, chip that it says can provide five times the performance of competing hardware. Established five years ago by former Juniper Networks Inc. and Apple Inc. executives, Fungible is backed by more than $300 million in ...