Oracle reveals large investment in Intel competitor
Oracle has announced 40 million U.S. dollars (36.72 million euros) to invest in a startup that wants to compete with Intel. The startup, Ampere Computing, develops processors for data centers and has former Intel president Renee James as CEO.
The investment represents a little under 20 percent o... Read more
Intel and Dell EMC showcase one of the world’s fastest academic supercomputers
Intel and Dell EMC have unveiled Frontera. Frontera is an academic supercomputer to replace the Stampede2 in the University of Texas. Intel now claims to be the fastest supercomputer in the world for academic workloads.
According to Intel, the Frontera can achieve performance of 38.7 quadrillion flo... Read more
Mining malware switches from Arm-IoT to Intel servers
A mining malware previously only seen on Arm-controlled Internet or Things (IoT) devices has made the switch to Intel systems. That's what security investigator Larry Cashdollar of Akamai discovered.
Cashdollar states that one of its honeypot systems has recently discovered an IoT malware that seems... Read more
McAfee prepares for an IPO
McAfee would be preparing an IPO. According to Bloomberg's sources, this is a valuation of at least 8 billion dollars, which is equivalent to about 7.2 billion euros. In July, there were already rumours of an IPO, but then the company was only attributed a value of $5 billion.
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Major tech companies set up new security group Confidential Computing Consortium
A number of major players in the tech and IT market have joined forces to improve safe computing. Alibaba, ARM, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom and Tencent are part of the group.
The collaboration takes place under the name Confidential Computing Consortium. The obje... Read more
Intel announces its first AI chip for data centers
Intel announced at an event in Israel that it will release its first AI chip for data centers. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference, as the chip is officially called, is intended for use in large data centers that run AI workloads.
The chip is an edited version of the 10-nm Ice Lake... Read more
New PAC D5005 from Intel is programmable accelerator card for servers
Intel has introduced the PAC D5005. This is a new accelerator card that allows servers in data centers to run workloads such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) software simultaneously.
An accelerator card can be placed in a server to supplement the built-in processor. However, the D500... Read more
Lenovo and Intel work together on new generation supercomputers for AI
Lenovo and Intel have partnered to optimize data center technologies for convergence between high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
Lenovo believes its HPC infrastructure is the ideal platform to address the major computing challenges. AI software has the unique position to ... Read more
Apple now makes everything but the memory and Mac processors themselves
With Apple taking over much of Intel's smartphone modems business, the manufacturer is making virtually all the parts for its devices itself. Only the memory chips for the iPhone and iPad and the processors for the Macs are still designed and made by third parties.
Apple acquired Intel's smartpho... Read more