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

CIO

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? For us, the AI hardware needs are in the continuum of what we do every day.

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

TechCrunch

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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Software Driven Business Advantages in the Enterprise Storage Market

Infinidat

Software Driven Business Advantages in the Enterprise Storage Market. Not too many years ago, enterprise storage solutions were all about hardware-based innovation, delivering performance and functionality by adding dedicated and proprietary hardware components. Adriana Andronescu. Tue, 04/26/2022 - 22:00.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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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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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

Aiming to overcome some of the blockers to success in IT, Lucas Roh co-founded MetalSoft , a startup that provides “ bare metal ” automation software for managing on-premises data centers and multi-vendor equipment. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014.

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ASUS unveils powerful, cost-effective AI servers based on modular design

CIO

That means hardware designed from the ground up for maximum performance, data center integration, AI development support, optimal cooling, and easy vertical and horizontal scaling. That architecture lets ASUS servers exploit the latest NVIDIA advances in GPUs, CPUs, NVME storage, and PCIe Gen5 interfaces.