LG is shutting down mobile phone business worldwide
Stepping away from manufacturing and sales
LG has sent a press release and informed its belloved fans and customers that it plans to close its mobile business unit. The company wants to focus on growth sectors, including EVs, IoT, and B2B Solutions.
Xilinx launches new Artix and Zynq targeting smart and high-performance edge endpoints
New Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ families
We are living in times of massive explosion of the necessity for smart edge computing endpoints. Miniaturization of the endpoint and the need for higher performance at lower power drive next-generation computing devices that require a dramatically smaller form factor. Xilinx has just announced the new Artix, and Zynq UltraScale+ families address the need for smaller form factor enabling lower power hardware programmability and high performance.
Xilinx video analytics has 71 percent lower latency than Nvidia T4
29 percent lower TCO than four Nvidia T4 system
SmartNIC SN1000 is the MWC shows' keynote thing, but Xilinx also announced a new smart world "AI video analytics", that claims to be a new algorithmic trading framework, and the new Xilinx App store.
Nvidia RTX card shortage expected throughout the year
Nvidia's spokesperson just confirmed
Nvidia has addressed a few questions regarding its record Q4/FY2021 financial conference call mentioned in detail here, and gave some updates on the GPU shortage, and mentioned the mining card strategy.
Xilinx introduces its Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC
The Industry’s First SmartNIC with Composable Hardware
Xilinx made quite a few announcements with a general idea of how to help revolutionize a modern Data Center with software defined, hardware accelerated Alveo SmartNICs. The big news includes the new Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC card.
Pat Gelsinger is the new Intel CEO
Analysis: Rejoins as a CEO after 12 years of absence
Back in mid-September 2009, we were sad to report that Kicking Pat Gelsinger was leaving Intel to take the CEO chair at EMC, later VMware. Now one of the key minds behind Pentium is coming back to the place that he still calls home, Intel.
Qualcomm Nuvia has acquisition automotive angle
Analysis: General Motors, Renault, Bosh, Continental, and co.
Automotive plays a vital role in the Nuvia deal. Nuvia has a data center chip that will tape out first, but what works in a data center can quickly be turned into an automotive chip. An Automotive/self-driving chip is nothing but a data center on wheels designed to be power-aware and process tremendous amounts of data from multiple sensors.
Industry responds to Qualcomm Nuvia acquisition
Analysis: 22 quotes as Qualcomm partner need a custom ARM CPU core
After the initial article about the acquisition of high performance/high-efficiency Nuvia Phoenix core means for Qualcomm, I wanted to address industry quotes and the overwhelming response. It comes down to a single bottom line. Qualcomm will be able to compete with Apple CPU cores in a few years.
Qualcomm acquires Nuvia
Analysis: Now has an in house custom CPU
Nuvia is a promising two-year-old startup with the outstanding possibility to disrupt the custom ARM-based CPU market. As of yesterday, Qualcomm has agreed to acquire them for around $1.4 billion.
AMD promotes Darren Grasby to EVP chief sales officer
Four others got significant promotions
The year 2021 seems to be a year of promotions on many fronts. AMD is no exception and it has just announced that it promoted two chaps to an executive vice president role and three more to a senior vice president.