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Doug Black

Intel at CES: New Inference, 5G Chips

January 8th, 2019 (0)

Intel is showcasing a raft of new AI- and 5G-related products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, staging a launch event on the eve of the conference that covered a new version of its Nervana ...

Call to ARM: Huawei Claims Highest Performance ARM-based CPU

January 7th, 2019 (0)

Momentum around ARM’s breakout into mainstream computing continued today as Huawei unveiled what the Chinese tech giant touted is the industry’s highest performing ARM-based CPU, targeting big data, distributed storage and ARM-native application scenarios. Called Kunpeng 920, the Huawei-designed ...

Mellanox Hires New CFO Amid Microsoft Acquisition Rumors

January 4th, 2019 (0)

Amid pre-holiday media speculation that Mellanox could be a Microsoft acquisition target, the networking powerhouse has announced that Doug Ahrens, formerly of GlobalLogic, has been named chief financial officer and SVP. Mellanox said Ahrens will manage worldwide financial operations ...

A ‘Deliberate Data Strategy’ for Today’s Attention-Deficit Economy

January 2nd, 2019 (0)

In our attention-deficit economy, organizations able to grab our attention end up winning. Companies that stand out are those that embrace an insight-driven ethos and build data-competent organizations. They do this by adopting a "deliberate data strategy" that follows ...

Microsoft to Buy Mellanox?

December 20th, 2018 (0)

Networking equipment powerhouse Mellanox could be an acquisition target by Microsoft, according to a published report in the Israeli financial publication TheMarker. Microsoft has reportedly gone so far as to engage Goldman Sachs to handle negotiations with Mellanox. The ...

Crystal Ball 2019: ‘AI Transformation Poised to Begin in Earnest’

December 20th, 2018 (0)

Years ago, the future was much more opaque. Now, it’s tangible, visible, it’s rising up all around us. A favorite quote from 2018: “I don’t predict the future, I observe it” (futurist Gerd Leonhard). That’s the thing: you can ...

Six Skills Separating Intelligent AI from Basic Automation

December 18th, 2018 (0)

Managing the modern customer experience today means most businesses are implementing, or at least investigating, an automated, digital, workforce. Since coming to market almost a decade ago, RPA (robotic process automation) has become more than just the automation of ...

CFD on ORNL’s Titan Models Cleaner, High-Mileage ‘Opposed Piston’ Engine

December 13th, 2018 (0)

Pinnacle Engines is out to substantially improve vehicle gasoline efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions with a new motor based on an “opposed piston” design that the company hopes will be widely adopted while the global small vehicle industry ...

Supermicro: Investigation Shows No Motherboard Hack

December 12th, 2018 (0)

Supermicro, the subject of media reports (including ours) two months ago alleging that spies in China hacked Supermicro servers widely distributed throughout the U.S. technology supply chain, has followed up its initial vehement denials with a letter sent yesterday ...

IBM and Nvidia in AI Data Pipeline, Processing, Storage Union

December 11th, 2018 (0)

IBM and Nvidia today announced a new turnkey AI solution that combines IBM Spectrum Scale scale-out file storage with Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 AI server to provide what the companies call “the highest performance in any tested converged system” while ...