Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

- AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empireby Tobias Mann on December 6, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 AMD is pushing advanced packaging and chiplets to the limit with the launch of its Instinct MI300-series accelerators, part of a quest to close the gap with rival Nvidia in the AI arena and bolster its standing in the high performance computing (HPC) community.…
- Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostlyby Katyanna Quach on December 6, 2023 at 7:43 pm
Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors Google has unveiled Gemini, its most powerful class of transformer-based models yet, which are capable of processing text, images, audio, and video. …
- Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hypeby Connor Jones on December 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment Despite a huge surge in awareness over the last year, just 10 percent of organizations have adopted generative AI technology in production environments, according to a survey by Intel.…
- Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity sharesby Brandon Vigliarolo on December 6, 2023 at 6:00 pm
What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? The world's richest man is begging for cash again, this time he'd like $1 billion for his recently formed AI outfit, with individual investors told to offer at least $2 million for a slice of the equity pie.…
- Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China banby Dan Robinson on December 6, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Nvidia chief Jensen Huang reckons Huawei and Intel are potential challengers for the GPU-maker's crown in the AI accelerator space, and says it is working out a deal with the US to keep selling products to China.…
- Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI trainingby Tobias Mann on December 6, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Google revealed a performance-optimized version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called the v5p designed to reduce the time commitment associated with training large language models.…
- Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladusby Katyanna Quach on December 6, 2023 at 4:15 pm
Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting from the moon's surface, a new study suggests.…
- Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdoutsby Richard Speed on December 6, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you Red Hat has suggested that if customers are worried about the impending end of life for CentOS 7, they might wish to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) via its Insights service.…
- A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch listby Connor Jones on December 6, 2023 at 2:45 pm
Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable A security vulnerability previously added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA), and included in reputable threat reports is now being formally rejected by infosec organizations.…
- NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx missionby Richard Speed on December 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm
'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed NASA has revealed how a wiring mix-up resulted in a parachute problem on its otherwise successful OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.…
- EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the doorby Lindsay Clark on December 6, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips The European Commission is entering 11th-hour negotiations to hammer out legislation governing the development and use of AI in time to retain its position as first mover on AI rules.…
- Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost productionby Dan Robinson on December 6, 2023 at 12:41 pm
Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support UK-based chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has netted £182 million ($229 million) in finance to expand production, after threatening to quit the country entirely earlier this year over lack of government support.…
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