Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

Google Bringing Cloud Computing to the Security- and Privacy-Sensitive Global Derivatives Market

November 16th, 2021 (0)

For years, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange – one of the world’s most diverse financial derivatives marketplaces – has run its IT systems and infrastructure in its own data centers and on-premises to keep them secure and running at peak ...

Update: UK Orders In-Depth Antitrust Investigation into Proposed $40B Nvidia Arm Acquisition

November 16th, 2021 (0)

With antitrust and national security concerns continuing amid the proposed $40 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Arm Ltd. by Nvidia, the British government today (Nov. 16) ordered an in-depth, 24-week “Phase Two” investigation into the proposed deal. The U.K.’s deepened ...

UK Government Delving Deeper into Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Proposal: Report

November 15th, 2021 (0)

The British government will reportedly soon order an in-depth antitrust investigation into the proposed $40 billion Nvidia acquisition of Arm, following a similar investigation that was undertaken just three weeks ago by the European Commission. The coming action was ...

Nvidia’s Digital Twin Moonshot – Saving Planet Earth

November 11th, 2021 (0)

Nvidia is continuing to expand enterprise digital twin capabilities and features in its Nvidia Omniverse 3D virtual world design platform, but the company’s nascent plans for its grandest digital twin yet might have even bigger impacts after its announcement ...

Cerebras Systems Expanding its Wafer-Scale Computing Tech with $250M in New Funding

November 10th, 2021 (0)

Wafer-scale compute vendor Cerebras Systems has raised another $250 million in funding – this time in a Series F round that brings its total funding to about $720 million. The latest cash infusion was led by Alpha Wave Ventures ...

Nvidia Debuts Enterprise-Focused 530B Megatron Large Language Model and Framework at Fall GTC21

November 9th, 2021 (0)

Bringing large language model (LLM) capabilities directly to enterprises to help them expand their business strategies and capabilities is the focus of Nvidia’s new NeMo Megatron large language framework and its latest customizable 530B parameter Megatron-Turing model. Unveiled Nov. ...

AI Observability Platform Vendor WhyLabs Closes $10M Series A Funding Round

November 5th, 2021 (0)

As more enterprises integrate AI into their infrastructures and business processes, one of the difficulties that often arise is knowing how the systems are working and what changes are needed to make them more efficient and productive. With that ...

NeuReality Partners with IBM Research AI Hardware Center on Next-Gen AI Inferencing Platforms

November 4th, 2021 (0)

In February of 2019, IBM launched its IBM Research AI Hardware Center in Albany, N.Y., to create a global research hub to develop next-generation AI hardware with various technology partners and expand the company’s joint research efforts in nanotechnology. Now, ...

Kneron Unveils Its First RISC-V SoC Built for Autonomous, Assisted Driving

November 3rd, 2021 (0)

AI chip vendor Kneron has announced its most advanced chip so far – its Kneron KL530 which is the company’s first product to include an image signal processor and a RISC-V instruction set to ready it for powering L1 ...

Intel’s 30x AI Performance Aim for Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs May Not Solve All AI Needs: Analysts

November 2nd, 2021 (0)

With its upcoming Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, designed as the next generation of Intel Xeon CPUs after Ice Lake and slated for release in 2022, chipmaker Intel Corp. is hoping to drive AI performance to new heights – as ...