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Qualcomm shares surge after it announces new licensing deal with Huawei
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.’s shares rose by double digits in after-hours trading today after it reported better-than-expected third-quarter results and said it has resolved a long-running dispute with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. It also agreed to a new long-term licensing agreement with the Chinese firm that should bring in about $1.8 billion in revenue in the ...
Nvidia sets 16 new performance records in latest MLPerf AI benchmarks
Nvidia Corp. said today the latest MLPerf benchmark test results prove that its latest platforms deliver the world’s fastest artificial intelligence training performance among all commercially available systems. Nvidia’s new A100 graphics processing unit and its DGX SuperPOD system (pictured), which is a massive cluster of A100 GPUs connected with its HDR InfiniBand technology, both ...
Google Cloud announces three new marquee customers
Google LLC announced a hat trick of customer wins today that showcases the growing strength of its public cloud computing services. The new customers include Indian information technology services giant Wipro Ltd., which said today it’s planning to upgrade its core enterprise resource planning system to SAP SE’s S/4HANA and migrate those workloads to Google Cloud. Wipro said ...
AMD earnings shine as Epyc and Ryzen chip revenue doubles
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is flying high today, its stock up more than 10% in after-hours trading after the veteran chipmaker reported second-quarter results that comfortably beat expectations and posted strong guidance for the next quarter. The chipmaker reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 18 cents per share on revenue of ...
Cisco Cloud Security modernizes data analytics with Matillion ETL for Snowflake
Cloud data integration company Matillion Ltd. today announced a big customer win: Cisco Systems Inc.’s cloud security business. U.K.-based Matillion offers extract/transform/load services for cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse and Google BigQuery. ETL refers to the three steps — extract, transform and load — that are used to prepare ...
Data discovery startup Explorium raises $31M in Series B funding
Israeli data science outfit Explorium Ltd. said today it has closed on a $31 million funding round led by Zeev Ventures and 01 Advisors. Sir Ronald Cohen’s Dynamic Loop also participated in the Series B round along with seed investors Emerge and F2 Capital, bringing Explorium’s total funding to date to $50 million. Explorium emerged ...
Google improves connectivity with upgrades to its cloud infrastructure
Google LLC today announced a series of upgrades to its global infrastructure services, giving customers more ways to connect to its cloud computing services. It also announced more deployment options for its cloud, plus new functionality for customers. The announcements were made by Brad Calder, Google Cloud’s vice president of engineering, in a blog post ...
RangeForce gets $16M in funding to help enterprises train cybersecurity teams
Cybersecurity training startup RangeForce said today it has armed itself with $16 million from an early-stage funding round led by Energy Impact Partners. Existing investor Trind Ventures also participated in the Series A round, along with new investors Paladin Capital Group and Cisco Systems Inc. The company said it will use the funding to accelerate its ...
Conversation intelligence startup Chorus.ai raises $45M in Series C funding
Conversation intelligence firm Chorus.ai Ltd. has topped up its piggy bank today after raising $45 million in a new round of funding that takes its total amount raised to $85.2 million. Georgian Partners led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital and Redpoint Ventures, and new investors Sozo Ventures. Chorus.ai is ...
AWS will help Vector deliver cleaner energy in Australia and New Zealand
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has formed a partnership with the New Zealand-based energy and gas distributor Vector Ltd. to create a new “internet of things” platform for the energy sector. The New Energy Platform, as it’s known, will be jointly developed by AWS and Vector as part of a new strategic alliance. The hope ...
