Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well …

AWS Ground Station offers easier access to satellite data via cloud

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Jumping deeper into a new market, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it will offer easier and faster cloud access to data from space via satellite communications. AWS Ground Station, announced by the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit, will be what the company …

AWS beefs up its cloud with its own processor, and much more

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Kicking off its annual re:Invent cloud conference with a bang Monday night, Amazon Web Services Inc. debuted among a wide array of new services a new cloud chip of its own design. Dubbed Graviton and available to its cloud customers through AWS’ …

Pac-12 athletic conference goes long with AWS cloud services

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

A likely parade of new and expanded customers coming in the next week or so for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud offerings kicked off today with the Pac-12 Conference. The western athletic conference said today it’s going “all-in” on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud …

Nvidia shares plunge after it misses earnings forecasts

INFRA By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Investors have been punishing graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. lately, its shares down by more than a quarter on concerns about growth forecasts. The spanking continued today. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of graphics processing unit chips used for gaming and artificial …

New Nvidia T4 graphics chip lands on Google’s cloud and lots of servers

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Graphics chips have become the standard for enabling artificial intelligence, as the kind of parallel processing that speeded up video games turned out to be ideal for AI too. Now they’re increasingly finding their way into cloud computing, where their processing power …

Tepid revenue and user growth dims Facebook earnings – and it won’t end soon

APPS By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Facebook Inc. took its medicine a few months ago when it said revenue growth would slow down, knocking 19 percent off its stock in a single day. So it’s no surprise that today’s third-quarter earnings report and guidance for the current quarter, …

Google to fund AI ‘social good’ projects with $25M in grants

AI By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

At a time when fears of the impacts of artificial intelligence are on the rise, Google LLC said today that it will give away $25 million toward projects that use its artificial intelligence technologies for “social good.” The announcement, made at a …

In a bombshell deal, IBM acquires open-source pioneer Red Hat for $34B

APPS By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Updated: In a deal sure to shake up the worlds of open-source software and cloud computing alike, IBM Corp. today announced a deal to acquire Red Hat Inc. for a stunning $34 billion. Red Hat is one of the pioneers to commercialize …

Amazon and Alphabet show strong cloud growth, but investors wanted more

CLOUD By ROBERT HOF8 YEARS AGO

Updated: Cloud computing continues to make an outsized impact on advertising giant Alphabet Inc. and e-commerce goliath Amazon.com Inc., but it wasn’t quite enough in their latest quarters to boost revenue growth up to what investors hoped. Still, the two tech giants’ third-quarter …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

AWS beefs up its cloud with its own processor, and much more

Nvidia shares plunge after it misses earnings forecasts

New Nvidia T4 graphics chip lands on Google’s cloud and lots of servers

Tepid revenue and user growth dims Facebook earnings – and it won’t end soon

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