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Okra Solar is bringing renewable energy to underserved markets

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Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 The Sydney-based company creates hardware and software solutions designed to bring solar-based power to developing markets.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

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EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

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All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? The rise of AI means that the network is the computer, and connectivity is its lifeline.

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Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

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For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid. To learn more, visit us here.

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Transform the modern data center: From today to the future

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This entails rethinking architectures, particularly network architectures, to enable seamless scale-out while unlocking deeper correlations and insights into system performance and behavior. EMA Research underscores the significant impact of manual errors, such as misconfigurations, which account for 27% of network problems.

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Gen AI without the risks

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Intelligent assistants are already changing how we search, analyze information, and do everything from creating code to securing networks and writing articles. Sajjad Moazeni of the University of Washington calculates that training an LLM with 175 billion+ parameters takes a year’s worth of energy for 1,000 US households. Not at all.

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5 things CIOs must understand about AI infrastructure

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Physical data center design is foundational, and the silent, longtail impact of an incorrectly provisioned system can mean launching into a “false start” deployment based on incorrect power, cooling, and network elements. Performance optimization Second to good design is the impact of complex, low-latency GPU networking fabrics.