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VMware and Nvidia partner to accelerate AI and enterprise workloads
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. said today at its VMworld 2020 virtual event that it’s partnering with computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. on a new enterprise platform for artificial intelligence workloads. VMware also announced a new architecture for the cloud, data center and edge that runs on Nvidia’s newest data center processing units. Nvidia will ...
D-Wave doubles its cloud quantum computing power to 5,000 qubits
D-Wave Systems Inc. today updated its cloud-based quantum computing platform, giving users access to more powerful hardware and software in order to accelerate the delivery of new, in-production quantum applications. D-Wave is widely regarded as the first company in the world to have built a working quantum computer. Quantum computers have the potential to solve incredibly ...
Flash memory maker Kioxia postpones its October IPO plans
Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings Corp., formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corp., said today it’s postponing an initial public offering that was due to take place next month. The company, which is the world’s second-largest maker of flash memory chips behind Samsung Electronics Ltd., said it was calling off its IPO because of stock market volatility and ...
New Facebook software creates smarter natural language processing models
Facebook Inc. has designed a new artificial intelligence framework it says can create more intelligent natural language processing models that generate accurate answers to questions without being constantly retrained. Natural language processing, or NLP, refers to the process of teaching computers to understand how to interpret and manipulate human language. It’s one of the oldest ...
Red Hat and Samsung partner to build cloud-native 5G network infrastructure
Red Hat Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to create a horizontal, cloud-native 5G networking platform for telecommunications providers that’s based on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The collaboration is important because telecommunications providers need to adopt new communications infrastructure in order to enable 5G. One of the key components ...
Microsoft to launch new, nonsubscription version of Office in 2021
Microsoft Corp. has revealed it will release a new, flat-priced version of its Office productivity software sometime in 2021. The announcement comes as a surprise, since Microsoft has for several years been moving away from the perpetual licensing model in favor of subscription services. The news was revealed in a blog post earlier this week outlining ...
Fungible buys infrastructure software startup Cloudistics
Data center chip maker Fungible Inc. said today it’s buying a cloud software company called Cloudistics Inc. as it bids to make compute infrastructure more efficient. Fungible, which is led by Chief Executive Pradeep Sindhu (pictured), one of the founders of Juniper Networks Inc., has developed a special kind of chip called a data processing ...
Traefik Labs adds another layer to its open-source microservices networking stack
Rebranding itself as Traefik Labs SAS, cloud-native networking company Containous SAS today unveiled a new product called Traefik Pilot. The company said it’s the latest step in its plan to build an open-source networking stack for microservices, which are the components of container-based software applications. Traefik Labs, which raised $10 million in a Series A round ...
Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer to track active cases
Google LLC said today it’s adding a new layer to the Google Maps app that displays information about COVID-19 outbreaks in every country where data is available. Google Maps product manager Sujoy Banerjee said the COVID-19 layer will display information about the disease for all 220 countries and territories supported by the app. Users will ...
Baidu announces Quantum Leaf, a cloud-based quantum infrastructure service
China’s Baidu Inc. announced a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf today that it says is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. Baidu is one of a number of big technology firms racing to develop quantum computing, which relies on quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. The ...