Qualcomm to Acquire NXP for “Connected World” Markets
In the largest deal in the history of the chip industry, wireless industry giant Qualcomm will acquire semiconductor maker NXP Semiconductors in a deal valued at $47B, according to ...Full Article
OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit
In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the ...Full Article
Early Blockchain Adopters Kicking Tires
While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform ...Full Article
IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should ...Full Article
U.K. Weather Office Gets Exascale Boost
Improved weather forecasting and climate change analysis are among the emerging applications for the combination of exascale computing, data analytics and the storage demands each places on data management ...Full Article
AI, Intelligent Apps and Intelligent Things Top Gartner’s 10 Trends to Watch
AI imbued throughout the enterprise is the major technology trend for 2017, according industry watcher Gartner Group. The company announced its prognostications today at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in ...Full Article
Fighting for the ‘Cool Kids’: OpenCAPI Takes on PCIe, Vows 10X Improvement
With two major announcements this week, IBM continues to drive the build-out of its advanced scale ecosystem, aligning industry heavies to jointly develop open technologies that tackle the perennial ...Full Article
What I Saw at the Enterprise IT Revolution: Radical Analytics Chic
If "a revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets" (Napoleon) then data analytics is the bayonet driving a revolution now underway in enterprise IT. It’s a revolution ...Full Article
Tech Mergers Tick Up in Q3
Technology merger and acquisition activity picked up during the third quarter, led by SoftBank Group's blockbuster deal in July to acquire U.K. processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. immediately ...Full Article
Intel’s FPGAs Target Datacenters, Networking
Targeting cloud computing, datacenters, network infrastructure and Internet of Things sensors, chipmaker Intel Corp. said it is sampling the latest version of it field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Intel ...Full Article
