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Nvidia acquires Cumulus, bolstering approach to software-defined data centers

Nvidia CEO says company is doubling down on data center development Not too long after announcing its “home run” and long overdue acquisition of computing networking company Mellanox Technologies, Nvidia has revealed plans to add an additional asset to its lineup: networking software company Cumulus...

Nvidia acquires Mellanox in a data center dream come true

Nvidia CEO: 'This is a home run deal' Nvidia’s $7 billion acquisition of computing networking company Mellanox Technologies has been finalized following delayed regulatory approval, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang couldn’t be happier. “This is a home run deal,” Huang told CNBC. "Man, I've been dreaming...

NVIDIA joins federal computing group tackling COVID-19

NVIDIA will add to COVID-19 efforts with expertise in AI, biology and large-scale computing optimizations The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, launched by the federal government last week, is a public/private industry initiative to support researchers around the world battling the virus by leveraging U.S....

Nvidia launches cloud gaming service after long beta phase

Nvidia: "There is room in the cloud gaming market for GeForce Now to co-exist with Microsoft and Google's platforms" Chipmaker Nvidia was the first to announce that is was testing a cloud gaming service in January 2018, ahead of both Microsoft and Google. That announcement,...

Edge, AI, IoT and 5G: Enterprise and operator opportunities

Nvidia, Verizon using GPUs to run edge AI for real-time service enablement As 5G continues to be refined through the 3GPP-led standardization process, consumer-facing benefits will morph into bespoke enterprise services that add low latency and high reliability to enhanced mobile broadband. In order to...

NVIDIA unveils EGX edge AI platform, Aerial 5G SDK; teams up with Microsoft, Ericsson

NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications. Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...

Cloud gaming market to cross $8 billion by 2025 (Reader Forum)

According to research report by Global Market Insights, Inc., the Cloud Gaming Market is set to grow from its current market was valued at over USD 1 Billion in 2018 to USD 8 Billion by 2025. The robust popularity of gaming and the widespread adoption...

GM, Toyota join with Arm to define ‘real’ compute platform for autonomous vehicles

Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making fully self-driving vehicles a reality’. The new Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) was announced at...

Qualcomm appealing $270 million fine levied by European Commission

EC found Qualcomm violated antitrust laws with 3G 'market dominance' The European Commission this week fined U.S. chipset giant Qualcomm $271 million, alleging it forced competitor Icera out of the 3G baseband market by selling products below cost. Icera, based in the U.K., was acquired...

Meaningful AI needs edge and cloud computing

NXP and Nvidia both investing in AI for edge use cases The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around leveraging the low latency of next-generation cellular networks with sensor data to create efficiencies through lightning fast data processing in...

Honing cloud focus, Nvidia acquiring Mellanox for $6.9 billion

Intel and Xilinx reportedly tried to acquire Mellanox The confluence of several technology mega-trends--5G, artificial intelligence and big data analytics--require the support of cloud computing and data centers to efficiently run an increasingly diverse set of workloads. To keep pace with this type of demand,...

Talking heads: What to consider when matching industrial IoT use cases to edge-cloud setups

Jean-Philippe Provencher, vice president, manufacturing strategy and solutions, PTC “The governing factors are the facilities, the cost of downtime, and speed of product development. "Cloud computing could hit a snag with these factors as facilities in lower cost areas may struggle with intermittent or costly...

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the company has released source...

Volvo teams up with NVIDIA to develop AI core for self-driving cars

Automotive manufacturer Volvo and chip maker NVIDIA have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to self-driving Volvo cars. The pair will develop an AI-enabled core computer for new models from as early as 2020, bringing about advanced driver support systems, energy management technology, and...

Daimler, Bosch to intro driverless ride-hailing in California in 2019, select Nvidia for AI

Bosch and Daimler will test a fleet of autonomous vehicles in California, with a view to launching a driverless shuttle service on certain routes in the second half of 2019. The pair have selected US tech company Nvidia to provide the artificial intelligence (AI)...

Industrial robotics focus of new Nvidia AI platform

Autonomous machines will use AI to transform manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and other verticals At the ongoing Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to power autonomous machines and industrial robotics. The chipmaker specifically called out manufacturing, logistics, agriculture,...

AI for IoT focus of NVIDIA, Arm partnership

NVIDIA combining AI architecture with Arm machine learning platform Two leaders in the machine learning/deep learning field have joined forces to push artificial intelligence (AI) into the quickly growing ecosystem of devices that comprise the internet of things (IoT). Announced during the recent GPU Technology...

South Korea allows KT to test self-driving bus in Seoul

The Korean telco has completed a four-hour test drive earlier this month The government of South Korea has allowed mobile network operator KT to test a self-driving bus in capital Seoul. With this permission, the operator can test its 45-passenger autonomous bus on public roads. KT...

Nvidia’s Xavier chip to bring A.I. to autonomous vehicles

Nvidia announces partnership with Volkswagen Las Vegas, Nev. -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled an autonomous machine processor called Xavier during a press conference at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 alongside a new partnership with Volkswagen. “In the future, every car will be self-driving. There will...

KT investing in autonomous cars supported by 5G

New facility will use 5G to further test autonomous car use case Korean telecommunications operator KT has secured a license to build what it claims to be the world's first autonomous car cluster in Pangyo, in Gyeonggi Province. KT’s plans to deploy a core telecommunications...

Volvo sets timeline for autonomous car sales

Volvo and Nvidia seem to be feeling pretty good about their tests of Nvidia's Drive PX2 hardware for self-driving cars. Volvo said this week that by 2021 it will be selling autonomous cars that don't require driver intervention. As an automaker that has built its...

Analyst Angle: Another mobile technology revolution in cars including 5G, V2X and EVs

The ongoing evolution of mobile technologies from 4G to 5G provides the cellular market with a leg up in terms of competing in the connected car arena. Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to...

Ericsson, Telstra test 5G trial system in Australia

A '5G' test took place in the city of Melbourne and used 800 megahertz of spectrum Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian telecommunications firm Telstra have carried out an outdoor test of a 5G trial system in Melbourne, Australia. The European company said the trial demonstrated 5G...

Ericsson, Telstra test 5G trial system in Australia

5G testing took place in the city of Melbourne and used 800 megahertz of spectrum Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian telecommunications firm Telstra have carried out an outdoor test of a 5G trial system in Melbourne, Australia. The European company said that the trial demonstrated 5G...