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Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft Taps Ampere’s Arm Chip to Power Azure Virtual Machines

Running on Ampere’s 80-core Arm-based processors, Microsoft's Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) have been made generally available.


News Sep 02, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois
Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Intel GPU Muscles Up for Media Processing and the Visual Cloud

Optimized for media streaming, Intel’s new GPU family hopes to meet the video processing needs of data centers and the cloud.


News Aug 25, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Ep. 50 | AWS VP of Engineering Bill Vass on AI, Quantum Computing, and the Metaverse

Bill Vass of Amazon Web Services talks AI/ML, quantum computing, servers in space, the Metaverse, and how AWS wants to help engineers “just focus on being an engineer.”


Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

By moving location calculation to the cloud, Semtech’s new service allows for lower-power LoRa devices to be embedded in tracked Internet of Things (IoT) assets.


News Jun 22, 2022 by Jeff Child
Ep. 46 | Microsoft VP Marcus Fontoura on Architecting Azure, the “World’s Computer”

Ep. 46 | Microsoft VP Marcus Fontoura on Architecting Azure, the “World’s Computer”

Behind the scenes with a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Corporate VP who discusses the software, hardware, and infrastructure behind Azure cloud computing, the software-defined data center, and what makes the most efficient, sustainable data centers in the world.


The Pros and Cons of Moving EDA to the Cloud

The Pros and Cons of Moving EDA to the Cloud

Taking EDA to the cloud, Synopsys’ new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for EDA and IC design raise the question: is cloud computing a good choice for chip design?


News Apr 11, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Qualcomm Ventures Beyond Mobile Processor Market in New Roadmap

Qualcomm Ventures Beyond Mobile Processor Market in New Roadmap

The new Snapdragon extension expands the mobile platform's capabilities to new markets from PCs to ADAS.


News Nov 30, 2021 by Biljana Ognenova
Team Up Leverages Neuromorphic-based Processor IP for Edge-based AI Solutions

Team Up Leverages Neuromorphic-based Processor IP for Edge-based AI Solutions

Moving away from Cloud-based AI to the network Edge reduces power and bandwidth demands. Akida, the neuromorphic Edge AI processor from BrainChip might help to facilitate that move along with MegaChips' help.


News Nov 29, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Keeping Its Roots in Service: New Amazon SDK Gives Alexa Design Power to ODMs

Keeping Its Roots in Service: New Amazon SDK Gives Alexa Design Power to ODMs

As tech giants lean towards creating in-house hardware, Amazon releases a new software development kit that allows original device manufacturers (ODMs) to add Alexa services to any hardware device.


News Nov 28, 2021 by Jake Hertz
IBM Quantum Summit 2021: QPU Eagle Breaks the 100-qubit Barrier

IBM Quantum Summit 2021: QPU Eagle Breaks the 100-qubit Barrier

Building on year-over-year engineering advancements IBM unveils Eagle, a 127-qubit quantum processor, and the next generation of cloud-based quantum systems.


News Nov 18, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

At NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, the company unveiled its roadmap to bring autonomy to more vehicles—dependent on chipsets, sensors, GPUs, cameras, and more.


News Nov 16, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
NXP Unveils Edge Processor—One to Balance Complex ML, Power, and Security

NXP Unveils Edge Processor—One to Balance Complex ML, Power, and Security

The new processor—the first of NXP's new i.MX 9 family—is customized to IoT and automotive applications.


News Nov 09, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Phase-change Memory Could Open Doors to Better Data Storage and Computing

Phase-change Memory Could Open Doors to Better Data Storage and Computing

Pushing beyond the von Neumann bottleneck can be difficult for memory devices. One option is phase-change memory (PCM) which Stanford and IBM are researching for data storage and computing.


Microsoft and EPFL Push Forward Optical Circuit Switching for Data Centers

Microsoft and EPFL Push Forward Optical Circuit Switching for Data Centers

Researchers from Microsoft and EPFL are looking to tackle existing challenges in today’s optical circuit switches using photonic chip-based soliton microcombs.


News Oct 20, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Microsoft and Eaton Aim to Push Back on US Power Grid Woes with Data Center UPS

Microsoft and Eaton Aim to Push Back on US Power Grid Woes with Data Center UPS

Many challenges plague the US electric grid. However, once a power strain on the grid, data centers could flip the switch and help the grid instead of drag it down.


News Sep 29, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Day 5: 3 Execs Assess the Global Chip Shortage—A Keynote Panel You Won’t Want to Miss

Day 5: 3 Execs Assess the Global Chip Shortage—A Keynote Panel You Won’t Want to Miss

The final day of Industry Tech Days 2021 has arrived! Day 5 will deliver some exceptional sessions and conversations, so pull up a seat for the home stretch.


News Sep 17, 2021 by Kate Smith
Semtech Strives for Data Center Interconnects with Latest Tri-Edge Chipsets

Semtech Strives for Data Center Interconnects with Latest Tri-Edge Chipsets

Hoping to take the "edge" off of data center workloads comes two new additions to Semtech's Tri-Edge family. What are they and how do they help data centers keep up through data center interconnects?


From Home to the Quantum Realm: 3 Companies Push Processor Limitations

From Home to the Quantum Realm: 3 Companies Push Processor Limitations

As the need for better, faster, and safer processing continues to grow, companies like Intel, Cadence, and QuantWare are bringing their A-game to the workplace, vehicles, and quantum computing.


News Aug 28, 2021 by Ikimi .O
IBM’s First CPU With On-chip AI Acceleration Detects Fraud at Lightning Speeds

IBM’s First CPU With On-chip AI Acceleration Detects Fraud at Lightning Speeds

Containing 22 billion transistors, IBM's new processor, Telum, features on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing. The goal: to detect fraud before a transaction is complete.


News Aug 27, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
Edge Computing Pushes Forward with Help From FPGAs to Testbed Environments

Edge Computing Pushes Forward with Help From FPGAs to Testbed Environments

As more and more IoT devices become commonplace, companies like Microchip, IBM, Verizon, Stratus, and Schneider Electric are hoping to propel edge computing into the future.


News Aug 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz