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Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto ...Full Article
Kubernetes Seen Driving Bare-Metal Comeback
Hardware vendors are betting the transition to 5G wireless networks supporting myriad connected consumer and industrial devices also will accelerate the shift to heavy-duty bare-metal servers as a way ...Full Article
NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane
As the volume and velocity of data grows exponentially, storage vendors are increasingly promoting NVM Express as a device interface for accessing non-volatile storage media. Enterprise storage vendors such ...Full Article
DDN to Acquire Nexenta, SDS Aimed at ‘Holy Trinity’ of AI-5G-IoT
In the scramble for the emerging 5G-“compute everywhere” world to come (see Nvidia-Mellanox, Xilinx-Solarflare), high performance storage heavyweight DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added to its recent acquisition of virtualized ...Full Article
‘Computational Storage’: Edge Intelligence for Next-Gen IoT
The intelligent edge has gained much buzz recently, including interesting comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a keynote at Mobile World Congress. But as IoT devices and applications ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s Powerhouse Machine Learning Server: up to 10 GPUs
Dell EMC has launched a thoroughbred machine learning server for the data center and at the edge, its most powerful in the company’s line of AI servers, with four, ...Full Article
Dell Extends VMware Cloud
Dell Technologies unveiled what amounts to a one-stop shop for cloud datacenter services built upon a VMware cloud running on hyperconverged Dell EMC infrastructure and aimed at edge computing ...Full Article
‘Implicit HPC’: Using HPC for AI, Advanced Analytics – Without Knowing It
With greater capability and improved ease of access, HPC cycles are more commonly being put in the hands of engineers and scientists who aren’t computer experts. The infrastructure under ...Full Article
Intel Launches Cascade Lake Xeons — Up to 56 Cores
At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco (April 2), the company unveiled its second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) family and debuted its Optane persistent memory module, along with ...Full Article
