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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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Einride founder on building an underlying business to support future tech goals

TechCrunch

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Today, that means designing electric trucks and an underlying operating system to help overland shippers make the transition to electric.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. He served for 40 years.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

CIO

Martha Heller: Since joining Broadcom 2016, you have been CIO, then CTO and head of software business operations, and now CTO, chief security officer, and head of software engineering and operations. I saw this shift happening at Broadcom, so I decided to shift out of IT and into software operations. I govern the costs.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

The only successful way to manage this type of environment was for organizations to have visibility across all the hardware, applications, clouds and networks distributed across their edge environments, just like they have in the data center or cloud.” Image Credits: Zededa.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

The growth in its business helped the company partner with big tech companies like Google and Microsoft to launch smartphones based on their respective mobile operating systems. It wasn’t enough, though, and by 2016, Taneja was out. billion in 2016. million in 2016, according to IDC data.

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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

One of the benefits of these systems is that they can be run with less computing power. That means — potentially — using something as simple as a Raspberry Pi to execute complex reasoning, rather than offloading the task to external hardware via the cloud. It’s easy to see how this is an intriguing solution.

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