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With Foveros and Sunny Cove, Intel sets out to build a new generation of 3-D chips
After years of setbacks, Intel Corp. today finally debuted Sunny Cove, the 10-nanometer chip architecture that will power its next generation of computer processors. But surprisingly, the long-anticipated unveiling was overshadowed by another announcement. The chipmaker introduced the architecture alongside a second technology called Foveros that holds the potential to change fundamentally how central processing ...
Supermicro says outside audit found no spy chips in motherboards
Two months after being named in a controversial Chinese espionage report, Super Micro Computer Inc. is claiming an outside audit has found no proof that spying hardware was installed on its products. The chipmaker notified customers of the findings in a letter today. The memo adds to the backlash against the October story in Bloomberg that started ...
Adobe contender InVision raises $115M round at $1.9B valuation
InVision Inc., a startup whose digital product design tools are used by 97 of the Fortune 100 and countless tech firms, today announced that it raised $115 million in funding at a $1.9 billion valuation. Early Slack Technologies Inc. backer Spark Capital led the round. Other participants included Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, Iconiq Capital and ...
IBM targets enterprise AI workloads with new Nvidia-powered converged system
Research firm International Data Corp. estimates that 75 percent of enterprise applications will use artificial intelligence by 2021. To address this growing market better, IBM Corp. today introduced a powerful AI-optimized converged system called Spectrum AI with Nvidia DGX. The platform joins the rising number of data center platforms tailored specifically for machine learning. In September, Cisco Systems ...
Google+ shutdown date moved up after flaw exposes 52M users’ data
Google LLC has expedited its plan to shut down the consumer version of Google+ after discovering a security flaw that had left 52.5 million users’ data temporarily exposed. Ben Smith, the search giant’s vice president of engineering, revealed the bug in a blog post today. The disclosure comes two months after Google announced that it intends to pull ...
Handing Qualcomm a victory, court bans sale of certain iPhones in China
A Chinese court has granted Qualcomm Inc. two preliminary injunctions against Apple Inc. that ban the sale of certain iPhone models in the world’s largest smartphone market. The ruling, which the chipmaker announced today, applies to the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and last year’s X. Apple’s 2018 device lineup ...
DeepMind ‘closes chapter’ in AI research with new self-learning AlphaZero system
A system developed by Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind subsidiary has mastered three of the world’s most complex board games in an achievement hailed as a milestone for artificial intelligence research. The group detailed the system, which it calls AlphaZero, in a paper released today. The software is the third major evolution of AlphaGo, the AI that made ...
IBM offloads parts of software portfolio to partner HCL for $1.8B
IBM Corp. is offloading some of the most time-tested components of its enterprise software portfolio to partner HCL Technologies Ltd. in a deal worth $1.8 billion. The transaction, which the companies announced Thursday night, encompasses a total of seven applications. The standout products are Notes and Domino. They form the two halves of the enterprise collaboration platform ...
Amazon starts crowdsourcing Alexa answers from consumers
Amazon.com Inc. claims to have added more than a billion data points to Alexa in the past year alone, but for all the company’s technical resources, there are limits to how much information can be collected automatically. To fill its voice assistant’s knowledge gaps, the online retail giant today announced a program called Alexa Answers. It ...
Embracing Chromium, Microsoft pledges to bring its Edge browser to the Mac
Confirming the rumors that it’s rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium, Microsoft Corp. today shed some light on the big-picture plan behind the move. Chromium is an open-source project run by Google LLC that serves as the foundation of the search giant’s dominant Chrome browser. The two applications share most of their features, most notably ...