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Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…

Patterns of Progress: Andrew Ng Eyes a Revolution in Computer Vision

Andrew Ng sees a pattern in AI. The visionary computer scientist recently gave a keynote address at the AI Hardware Summit where he predicted a forthcoming revolution in computer vision that could radically transform how Read more…

Cable TV’s Latest Hit: Greater Grid Stability

The nation’s electric grids are more vulnerable to blackouts than they used to be. Whether it’s cyber criminals hacking into the grid or the shift to renewable energy sources, electricity distribution is at a critica Read more…

Snowflake Introduces Manufacturing Data Cloud to Empower Industries with Data and AI

Data and AI technology for manufacturing is having a moment. As AI has expanded its lengthy reach into manufacturing, there have been several purpose-built releases lately from companies like Nvidia and Databricks that a Read more…

Google Claims Its TPU v4 Outperforms Nvidia A100

A new scientific paper from Google details the performance of its Cloud TPU v4 supercomputing platform, claiming it provides exascale performance for machine learning with boosted efficiency. The authors of the resear Read more…

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Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories

The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and se Read more…

Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves

Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…

IBM Collaboration Looks to Bring Massive AI Models to Any Cloud

Training machine learning foundation models with sometimes billions of parameters demands serious computing power. For example, the largest version of GPT-3, the famous large language model behind OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, ha Read more…

Samsung Announces 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM for 30% Faster Speeds

Samsung Electronics announced Thursday it has begun sampling a 16GB Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) DRAM featuring 24-gigabit-per-second processing speeds. The new high-speed memory chips for graphics cards are bu Read more…

Is Real-Time Streaming Finally Taking Off?

Like commercial fusion reactors, real-time streaming is a tantalizing technology, but one that perpetually needs just a few more years (or decades) of R&D. But some in the industry are sensing that something has shif Read more…

This Just In

Ethernet Alliance to Showcase Multivendor Live Demonstration at ECOC 2025

Sep 16, 2025 |

BEAVERTON, Ore., Sept. 16, 2025 — The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today announced it will be showcasing the Future of Ethernet Innovation at the 51st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025) from Sept. Read more…

Pacific Wave, Cal Poly Humboldt, and Internet2 Collaborate on Connectivity to Singapore, Guam, and Jakarta

Sep 15, 2025 |

SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE, Sept. 15, 2025 — Pacific Wave has announced its successful partnership with FLAG, one of the world’s largest privately owned subsea cable networks, for new capacity on the state-of-the-art Echo subsea cable system, significantly expanding connectivity between US university research institutions and their partners in Singapore, Guam, and Indonesia, empowering this global research community with greater speed, reliability, and capacity for their common endeavors. Read more…

Leonardo DiCaprio Pens Foreword to Data at the Edge, a Five-Book Series on Finding Trusted GIS Data

Sep 3, 2025 |

Step-by-step methods to find and verify trusted geospatial data—plus DATE AI, an assistant trained on the series—for students, educators, journalists, city planners, emergency managers, and NGOs.

MONTREAL, Sept. Read more…

PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 8.0 Specification to Reach 256.0 GT/s

Aug 5, 2025 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 — PCI-SIG today announced the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification will double the data of the PCIe 7.0 specification to 256.0 GT/s and is planned for release to members by 2028. Read more…

Latent AI Launches Industry’s 1st Agentic Edge AI Platform to Streamline MLOps

Jun 17, 2025 |

PRINCETON, N.J., June 17, 2025 — Latent AI, a leader in edge AI solutions, today unveiled Latent Agent, the industry’s first agentic edge AI platform, featuring intelligent automation that transforms how enterprises develop, deploy, and manage AI models at the edge. Read more…

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