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Beyond tariffs: How the exodus of big US tech firms could have lasting impacts on China
U.S. and Chinese Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jingping might have negotiated a temporary ceasefire in their ongoing trade war last week, but many American technology firms are still looking to move their manufacturing operations away from China. A report from the Nikkei Asian Review Wednesday said companies that include Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc., ...
Intel expands its AI collaboration with China’s Baidu
Intel Corp. is working with Baidu Inc. to optimize its latest Nervana Neural Network Processor on the Chinese internet giant’s PaddlePaddle deep learning framework to try to speed up the training of artificial intelligence models. Intel said its NNP-T processor, introduced late Tuesday, is a “new class of efficient deep learning system hardware designed to ...
Source{d} launches enterprise edition of its software development analytics tools
Source{d} Technologies Inc., which sells a data platform for developers that provides deep analytics into their software development lifecycles, today launched a new enterprise edition of its software that comes with enhanced visualization tools, management capabilities and analytics functions. Source{d}’s platform provides insights for developers into the application programming interfaces and other tools they’re using, as well ...
Google Cloud partners with Atos to offer HPC servers for Oracle workloads
Oracle Corp. database users will soon be able to run their workloads on high-performance servers in Google LLC’s cloud, thanks to a new partnership inked with a German company called Atos SE. Atos said Monday it’s teaming up with Google to add two “high-performance extensions” to Google Cloud Platform data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, and ...
Gartner forecasts a cloudy future for the database market
The future of the database market is looking increasingly cloudy. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is predicting that three quarters of all database deployments will be made to the cloud within just three years, and that few will ever return to on-premises environments. The analyst firm, in a report published today, said the on-premises database market continues to ...
Google pushes for its robots.txt parser to become internet standard
Google LLC is pushing for its decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol to be certified as an official internet standard, so today it open-sourced its robots.txt parser as part of that effort. The REP, as it’s known, is a protocol that website owners can use to exclude web crawlers and other clients from accessing a site. Google said ...
IBM completes sale of its Watson Marketing business
IBM Corp. said today that its Watson Marketing platform has launched as a standalone company, about three months after saying it was planning to sell the commerce and marketing cloud business to an investment firm called Centerbridge Partners L.P. The new company, which has yet to announce its name and brand, will sell artificial intelligence-powered ...
Applied Materials buys Japan’s Kokusai for $2.2B to boost memory-chip presence
Semiconductor industry equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc., one of the largest makers of software and machines used by chipmakers such as Intel Corp., today said it has reached a deal to acquire Kokusai Electric Corp. for about $2.2 billion. Kokusai will operate as a separate business unit within Applied Material’s semiconductor products group once the ...
Huawei sales ban reprieve covers only ‘widely available’ products
White House officials have moved to clarify U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to relax a ban on American companies doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Reuters reported today that the sanctions reprieve will only apply to products that are “widely available” and not the most sensitive equipment. Trump handed Huawei a lifeline Saturday following ...
Google is building another private subsea cable to link Europe with Africa
Google LLC said today it’s building another private subsea cable, this time linking Western Europe with the African continent. The new subsea cable, called “Equiano,” and will run from Lisbon in Portugal all the way down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town in South Africa, with several “branching units” planned that will extend ...