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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Intel’s engineering chief Murthy Renduchintala departs following chip process delay
Intel Corp. Chief Engineering Officer Venkata Murthy Renduchintala seems to be taking the fall for the company’s failure to deliver on its next-generation products based on its seven-nanometer chipmaking process. The company, which revealed during its second-quarter earnings call last week that …