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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 …
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. …
Startup Light says its new auto perception system has a longer range than lidar
Light today entered the crowded automotive technology market with the launch of Clarity, a road perception system for autonomous and partially autonomous vehicles that it says can detect objects from much farther away than lidar technology. Redwood City, California-based Light is led by Chief Executive …
Rockset’s real-time indexing database draws $40M funding round
Rockset Inc., the maker of a specialized cloud database for real-time analytics, today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Greylock took part in the investment as well. There’s a broad array of software use …
Microsoft’s new Lobe app lets anyone train AI models
Microsoft Corp. today released a free desktop application called Lobe that lets Windows and Mac users create customized artificial intelligence models without writing any code. The app is already being used by several customers for tasks such as tracking tourist activity around coral reefs, …
Cloudify upgrades its cloud ‘orchestrator of orchestrators’ with new release
Cloudify Ltd. today upgraded its infrastructure orchestration platform with features designed to make it easier to manage the large number of different components that make up an enterprise’s technology environment. Cloudify Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based startup that spun out of in-memory computing company …
Microsoft and Honeywell strike industrial IoT analytics partnership
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with Honeywell International Inc. to integrate the Honeywell Forge industrial analytics platform with the Dynamics 365 Field Service offering and Azure. The partnership, announced Thursday, is aimed at helping enterprises optimize they manage physical assets such as commercial …
Microsoft, MITRE and partners release adversarial AI framework
Microsoft Corp. and the federally funded MITRE research organization today released the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, a framework designed to help cybersecurity experts prepare against attacks targeting artificial intelligence models. The framework is available on GitHub. Besides Microsoft Corp. and MITRE, it also …
Managed security startup Arctic Wolf nabs $200M funding round
Arctic Wolf Networks Inc., a managed security startup that offers enterprises hands-on assistance with protecting their networks, today said it has closed a $200 million investment at a $1.3 billion valuation. The raise comes just months after Arctic Wolf announced its previous …
Puppet launches new tool to automate infrastructure security compliance
Puppet Inc. today introduced Puppet Comply, a software product that enterprises can use to ensure their cloud and on-premises infrastructure adheres to cybersecurity requirements. Portland-based Puppet is the maker of one of the market’s most widely used tools for automating infrastructure management. Several …