Source: U.S. Army
DARPA Upgrades Battlefield Simulations
The demands of training soldiers and pilots, a domain that is gradually incorporating AI-enabled technologies, has heightened the U.S. military’s need for far greater computing power. Hence, the Pentagon’s ...Full Article
IBM Extends $3B Cloud Streak, Signs Santander to 5-Year Deal
IBM continued to make inroads into the big bank sector, announcing this morning at its annual Think conference in San Francisco that Banco Santander, the fifth largest bank in ...Full Article
Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services
As IBM kicked off its annual Think conference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging ...Full Article
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narrowly-defined tasks. AI of the ...Full Article
How to Avoid the Downside of a Cloud-First Strategy
Cloud computing has evolved to the point where most enterprises have, to one degree or another, deployed cloud workloads. Our 2018 Cloud Survey found 70 percent of over 900 ...Full Article
Nvidia Aligns with Colo Partners in AI Democratization Push
AI is all the rage and so is AI democratization. Having developed an AI stack only science-level technologists could love, vendors are now courting customers with integrated hardware that ...Full Article
Chip Startup Accelerates AI with MRAM
The AI chip market continues to heat up with the recent release of a series of AI accelerators with embedded memory that target the booming edge computing sector. Gyrfalcon ...Full Article
Intel Promotes Former CFO Swan to CEO
Intel today announced the promotion of former CFO Robert Swan to CEO, a post he had held on an interim basis for seven months after the forced resignation in ...Full Article
Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconnect company, according to ...Full Article
Data Center Sales Help AMD Buck Intel, Nvidia Stock Drops
Editor's note: this story was updated on January 29 to reflect AMD's earnings announcement. Insurgent chip maker Advanced Micro Devices defied the recent stock drops of rivals Intel and ...Full Article
