Facebook Inc. has sent another signal that it’s serious about building its own semiconductors, joining Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Amazon.com Inc. in trying to make its own custom chips. The social-networking giant this month hired Shahriar Rabii to be a vice president and its head of silicon. Rabii previously worked at Google, where he […]
AI applications often benefit from fundamentally different architectures than those used by traditional enterprise apps. And vendors are turning somersaults to provide these new components. “The computing field is experiencing a near-Cambrian-like event as the surging interest in enterprise AI fuels innovations that make it easier to adopt and scale AI,” said Keith Strier, global and […]
For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips. How on earth could a start-up compete with a goliath like Intel, which made the chips that ran more than 80 percent of the world’s personal computers? Even in the areas where Intel didn’t dominate, like smartphones and gaming devices, there […]
Here are the makings of an interesting tale. It involves two competing tech spinouts from MIT, and two rival CEOs who were co-authors on a key research paper. And now, each company has raised on the order of $10 million from venture capitalists to win what could become a major race. It’s Lightelligence versus Lightmatter, […]
A smart building in Kawasaki, Japan called the Smart Community Center, has 35,000 sensor devices in it, possibly the premiere example today of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in action. Announced in later 2016, the partnership of Dell EMC and Toshiba is developing a testbed to make sense of the data from the many […]
SenseTime, China’s leading AI unicorn, on Nov. 15 announced a strategic investment agreement with global communications giant Qualcomm Inc., which is pending closing. (Photo above shows SenseTime co-founder and CEO Li Xu (right), and Keith Kressin, SVP of product management at Qualcomm (left).) The two companies will working on development of on-device AI for applications including […]
