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Doug Black

Intel Shipping 10nm Agilex FPGAs to Microsoft, Others

August 29th, 2019 (0)

Intel announced today it’s begun shipping its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early access customers, including Microsoft, Colorado Engineering, Mantaro Networks and Silicom. The company said the FPGAs will be the first to support the Compute Express Link (CXL), a ...

At Hot Chips, Intel Shows New Nervana AI Training, Inference Chips

August 26th, 2019 (0)

At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel showcased its latest neural network processor accelerators for both AI training and inference, along with details of its hybrid chip packaging technology, Optane DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical ...

AI Implementation Challenges: A Primer

August 26th, 2019 (0)

AI can help organizations save time and money, make automated processes smarter and more efficient, it can go through mountains of data faster than the human mind and provide real-time insights for better decision-making and it can respond on ...

Xilinx Says Its New FPGA is World’s Largest

August 21st, 2019 (0)

In this age of exploding “technology disaggregation” – in which the Big Bang emanating from the Intel x86 CPU has produced significant advances in CPU chips and a raft of alternative, accelerated architectures – has incited a permanent struggle ...

Translating AI and Storage Innovation into Business Value – Innovate or Die

August 19th, 2019 (0)

Determining value and adapting a business to a changing environment is the focus of the University of Saint Gallen working paper, “The St. Gallen Business Model Navigator.” With examples such as Kodak’s comical projection in 1999 that in 10 ...

Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records

August 14th, 2019 (0)

Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers and chatbots. And the company says it has a new language training model in the works that ...

Explaining AI Decisions to Your Customers: IBM Toolkit for Algorithm Accountability

August 12th, 2019 (0)

IBM has introduced a toolkit of algorithms to enable interpretability and explainability of machine learning models – i.e., algorithms for understanding algorithms (have we mentioned lately that AI is a bit complicated?). In simpler terms, IBM’s AI Explainability 360 ...

Enterprise-Wide AI Collaboration: On-boarding AI the Right Way

August 12th, 2019 (0)

The impact of AI becomes evident in an organization as existing processes get re-written and automation capabilities are deployed. But without clarity about how AI will support business goals, a lot of money and goodwill could be wasted. Stakeholder ...

Google Embraces AMD Epyc Rome CPU for Cloud, Internal Workloads

August 8th, 2019 (0)

This week’s big tech news – AMD’s release of the Epyc Rome CPU, the industry’s first 7nm server chip – got a major boost when Google confirmed that it now uses the new processor for internal workloads and will ...

Lenovo Debuts Single-Socket Servers with AMD Epyc Rome 7nm CPUs

August 7th, 2019 (0)

No summer doldrums here. In an intense week for leading chip and server companies, Lenovo today launched two new single-socket servers, the ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655, built with AMD’s new Epyc 7nm 7002 CPU, with up to 64 cores ...