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Uber contributes its Horovod deep learning system to the Linux Foundation
Engineers at the world’s top tech firms often find themselves having to build custom alternatives to existing software in order to meet the unique needs of their companies. One notable example of such a software project is Horovod, a deep learning platform created by Uber Technologies Inc. that today moved to the Linux Foundation. The project, ...
Apple to build new $1B campus in Austin as part of nationwide expansion
Apple Inc. today announced that it will open a massive $1 billion campus in Austin as part of an expansion plan to add 20,000 employees nationwide through 2023. Currently, the iPhone maker has 90,000 workers in the United States. Austin is already home to a major Apple hub that employs 6,200 staffers, which makes it the ...
Nvidia ships miniaturized Jetson AGX Xavier machine learning chip for robots
Nvidia Corp. today started shipping Jetson AGX Xavier, a miniaturized machine learning chip geared toward industrial robots and other autonomous machines. The company first released the module (pictured) on a limited basis last year as part of a development kit for early adopters. This limited launch enabled Nvidia to build up an impressive lineup of ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
High-flying Kubernetes security startup Tigera grabs $30M in funding
Several leading venture capital investors have thrown their backing behind Tigera Inc., a rising star in the software container ecosystem that focuses on cybersecurity. The startup today announced that it has raised a $30 million funding round from Insight Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, New Enterprise Associates and Wing VC. The financing brings Tigera’s total ...
With Foveros and Sunny Cove, Intel sets out to build a new generation of 3-D chips
After years of setbacks, Intel Corp. today finally debuted Sunny Cove, the 10-nanometer chip architecture that will power its next generation of computer processors. But surprisingly, the long-anticipated unveiling was overshadowed by another announcement. The chipmaker introduced the architecture alongside a second technology called Foveros that holds the potential to change fundamentally how central processing ...
Supermicro says outside audit found no spy chips in motherboards
Two months after being named in a controversial Chinese espionage report, Super Micro Computer Inc. is claiming an outside audit has found no proof that spying hardware was installed on its products. The chipmaker notified customers of the findings in a letter today. The memo adds to the backlash against the October story in Bloomberg that started ...
Adobe contender InVision raises $115M round at $1.9B valuation
InVision Inc., a startup whose digital product design tools are used by 97 of the Fortune 100 and countless tech firms, today announced that it raised $115 million in funding at a $1.9 billion valuation. Early Slack Technologies Inc. backer Spark Capital led the round. Other participants included Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, Iconiq Capital and ...
IBM targets enterprise AI workloads with new Nvidia-powered converged system
Research firm International Data Corp. estimates that 75 percent of enterprise applications will use artificial intelligence by 2021. To address this growing market better, IBM Corp. today introduced a powerful AI-optimized converged system called Spectrum AI with Nvidia DGX. The platform joins the rising number of data center platforms tailored specifically for machine learning. In September, Cisco Systems ...
Google+ shutdown date moved up after flaw exposes 52M users’ data
Google LLC has expedited its plan to shut down the consumer version of Google+ after discovering a security flaw that had left 52.5 million users’ data temporarily exposed. Ben Smith, the search giant’s vice president of engineering, revealed the bug in a blog post today. The disclosure comes two months after Google announced that it intends to pull ...
Handing Qualcomm a victory, court bans sale of certain iPhones in China
A Chinese court has granted Qualcomm Inc. two preliminary injunctions against Apple Inc. that ban the sale of certain iPhone models in the world’s largest smartphone market. The ruling, which the chipmaker announced today, applies to the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus and last year’s X. Apple’s 2018 device lineup ...
