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Meet Springhill: Intel debuts its first chip for machine learning workloads
Intel Corp. today quietly announced its first dedicated artificial intelligence processor at a special event in Haifa, Israel. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (pictured), also known as “Springhill,” was developed at Intel’s labs in Haifa, and is said to be designed for large data centers running AI workloads. It’s based on a modified 10-nanometer Ice ...
Databricks intros AutoML tools for building machine learning models
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is hoping to empower so-called citizen data scientists to create their own machine learning models with new “Automated Machine Learning” capabilities in its Unified Analytics platform. The AutoML capabilities announced today rely on machine learning too, and are designed to help untrained workers muddle their way through the key steps involved in creating ...
Druva enables intelligent data storage on Amazon Web Services
Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. announced ahead of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco what it says is the industry’s first “multitier data storage system” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva sells an integrated service for AWS users that combines data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications into a central repository for backup, data protection, ...
Twitter open-sources network diagnostic tool Rezolus
Twitter Inc. has open-sourced an internally developed tool for discovering performance anomalies and usage spikes in its network that were too brief to be noticed by its regular observability and metrics systems. In a blog post Monday, Twitter site reliability engineer Brian Martin said Rezolus is a “high-resolution systems performance telemetry agent” that’s now available to ...
Huawei gets another 90-day reprieve before US technology ban takes effect
The U.S. Commerce Department has granted another stay of execution to Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. that will allow it to continue buying components from U.S. companies until November, Reuters reported Monday. The extension, which was announced by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, comes just a day after President Donald Trump suggested that ...
State attorneys general to launch yet another antitrust probe of tech firms
Big tech firms are bracing themselves for yet another antitrust investigation, this time led by a group of U.S. state attorneys general. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the probe will look into allegations that companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC and Facebook Inc. are abusing their power to “stifle competition in the market.” ...
Baidu announces simultaneous translation service for business users
Baidu Inc. today announced the availability in beta test of a new “speech-to-speech simultaneous translation service” designed to facilitate communication at business events. The Chinese technology giant said the service can provide highly accurate, real-time translation of speaker presentations at events in both audio and text. The way it works is interesting, too, as the translations are ...
Microsoft launches Ultra Disk cloud storage service for data-intensive workloads
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of its new Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive storage service in three of its cloud regions. Azure Ultra Disk is what the company calls a next-generation distributed block storage service, designed to cater to high-throughput and high-input/output Azure virtual machines. It’s currently available in the East US 2, North Europe ...
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Graphic turnaround: Nvidia posts solid revenue gains thanks to AI, graphics chip sales
Updated: Things are looking up at Nvidia Corp., which easily beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its second quarter thanks to growing demand for its artificial intelligence and graphics chips. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.24 per diluted share. Revenue topped $2.58 billion for the quarter, down ...
Dell and AT&T collaborate on open-source 5G network edge infrastructure
Dell Technologies Inc. and AT&T Inc. said today they’re working together to develop open-source infrastructure necessary to enable the “network edge” ahead of the transition from 4G to 5G wireless networks. The network edge refers to a concept known as “edge computing,” where data produced by mobile devices is processed closer to its source instead ...