2017-03-10 - Nvidia

Nvidia, Microsoft take on cloud-based AI with HGX-1

The HGX-1 GPU accelerator chassis is made up of eight Tesla P100 GPUs, all of which utilise the new Pascal…

2017-03-08 - Fujitsu

Nvidia servers to power Fujitsu’s new supercomputer

The system will have a total theoretical processing performance of 4 petaflops.

2017-02-24 - Molex

Backplane systems support up to 28Gbps data rate

Molex Impact zX2 backplane connector system lowers impedance to 95Ω to ensure optimal SI performance amidst increasing data rates.

2017-02-23 - STMicroelectronics

Prototype boards enable LoRaWAN, LPWAN evaluation

STMicroelectronics’ two prototype boards are based on LoRaWAN modules, with 13mm x 12mm size and power consumption range of 1.2μA…

2016-12-20 - Jessica Quiao

IDC: China’s e-sports industry to rake in $7.3B in 2016

The increasing popularity of e-sports tournaments among organisers will boost China's e-sports games revenue in 2016, according to IDC.

2016-12-05 - Fujitsu

Fujitsu unveils 25-petaflop supercomputer, Xeon Phi inside

Fujitsu, in partnership with universities in Tokyo and Tsukuba, has launched the Oakforest-PACS supercomputer to contribute to R&D across Japan.

2016-11-18 - Rick Merritt

Machine learning may be Intel’s critical inflection point

Intel dominates the high margin market for server processors, but machine learning demands more performance on highly parallel tasks.

- Rick Merritt

Intel ‘working on’ support for 7 machine learning frameworks

The new Knights Mill version of Xeon Phi coming next year will be optimised for the toughest AI jobs such…

2016-11-03 - Rick Merritt

US sets up chip study group exploring China, Moore’s law

The group will look at ways to strengthen the U.S. industry in the face of competition from China and the…

- Rick Merritt

Chip study group reviews US semicon competitiveness

The SIA has long lobbied to lower U.S. statutory tax rates which at 35% are higher than rates of competing…