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Chipmaking giant Intel Corp. has announced yet another production delay. The company said today its next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable central processing units aren’t expected to ship until the first quarter of 2022, with production to ramp up by the second quarter. News …
Global public cloud infrastructure spending grows more than 40% in 2020
Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service spending hit $64.3 billion in 2020, up 40.7% from the year before, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed more companies to move computing workloads online, according to a report today from market research firm Gartner Inc. Amazon Web Services Inc. once …
Nvidia soups up its HGX AI supercomputer platform with faster chips, more bandwidth and direct memory access
Nvidia Corp. is turbocharging its Nvidia HGX artificial intelligence supercomputing platform with some major enhancements to its compute, networking and storage performance. Nvidia HGX AI is an architecture for server platforms that’s designed to power high-performance computing workloads. It fuses up to 16 …
Nvidia integrates Arm processors with its 5G edge infrastructure platform
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up its bid to power 5G applications at the edge of the network, adding support for Arm central processing units on its Nvidia Aerial A100 AI-on-5G platform. Aerial A100 AI-on-5G is a single, converged platform that’s designed to …
Dell debuts open-source Omnia software to automate deployment of converged AI, data and HPC workloads
Dell Technologies Inc. is pitching a new open-source software suite it created in partnership with Intel Corp. and Arizona State University as a way for customers to manage the convergence of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics workloads more easily. The …
IBM’s newest Cloud Pak offering brings automation to 5G network deployments
IBM Corp. is expanding its portfolio of automation software with a new offering for communications service providers that’s meant to help them to stand up and manage new 5G networks faster and more easily. The offering was announced at the Mobile World …
Amazon launches AWS BugBust to make finding software bugs more fun
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to encourage developers to build better software with fewer bugs with the launch today of its global AWS BugBust competition. The idea is to get developers to compete to find and fix more than a million …
Confluent IPO raises $828M and its stock soars on its first day of trading
Big-data company Confluent Inc. had a strong debut today as it entered the Nasdaq stock exchange, as its shares climbed 25% on their first day of trading. The company raised $828 million in its initial public offering as it sold 23 million …
Tonkean, a business process automation startup aiming to build on RPA, lands $50M round
Yet more investor capital is pouring into the business automation market as startup Tonkean Inc.today announced a $50 million round of funding today. The Series B round was led by Accel and saw participation from Lightspeed Ventures, which led Tonkean’s $24 million …
Nvidia’s Vid2Vid Cameo AI brings 2D photos to life in video calls
Nvidia Corp. is using artificial intelligence to help ensure people will always look their best during a video call, even if they’re still in bed, having just woken up with a hangover. Vid2Vid Cameo is a new deep learning model that will …