DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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HPE to move headquarters out of Silicon Valley to Houston, Texas
Where it already had a substantial presence
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Dundee City Council has moved IT workloads to the Cloud
The council used Brightsolid to oversee the migration
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Quantum software firm Zapata Computing raises $38m
Zapata writes the software for future quantum systems
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IQM to deliver Finnish quantum computing system, eventually growing to 50 qubit
IQM won the role in an international tender
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IBM and AMD team for 'confidential computing' for AI and HPC in the cloud
Engineers from both companies are already cooperating
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Qualcomm posts postive earnings, plans investment in data centers and Edge
Qualcomm previously scaled back its data center division drastically
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Lenovo records $14.5bn in revenue after Q2 2020 growth in sales
Lenovo's data center division is up 11 percent in revenue too
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ByteDance leases 53MW of Northern Virginia data center space, ahead of possible US spin off
By housing its servers in the US ByteDance could assuage data security fears
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Marvell to buy Inphi in $10bn semiconductor deal
Yet another billion-dollar chip deal
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Intel sells NAND and SSD business to SK Hynix for $9bn
Intel will refocus its efforts on AI, Edge and 5G
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Bitcoin miner Marathon signs for coal-fired electricity in Montana
Beowulf Energy hopes a joint venture can keep its struggling coal plant burning
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Fastest HPC in the Nordics, Mahti, officially launched at CSC's Kajaani data center in Finland
Mahti will be followed by LUMI in 2021
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Supermicro unveils 1U NEBS server for Edge deployments
The new server is a resilient piece of kit for deployment at the Edge
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John Hatem rejoins CyrusOne as exec VP and COO
Hatem comes back home
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OVHcloud launches hosted privated cloud - and acquires NVMe company
New clouds support large storage in multiple data centers
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Zoom opens data center in Singapore, its first in South East Asia
Zoom has been tightening its security following allegations of links to China
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AWS launches quantum computing managed service, Braket
Scientists at the University of Chicago also made a breakthrough in quantum computing
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Microsoft's Azure revenue continues to grow, but at a slower rate
But don't worry, the company had a record quarter
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SEMI: Chip equipment sales to hit $70bn in 2021
China, Taiwan, and Korea are the biggest spenders in the market
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Nokia launches data center switches, routers, and networking OS; scores Apple, Equinix, and BT deals
A new network hardware range to automate workloads
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Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for IT overhaul
Deutsche will work with Google to get a much needed update to its systems
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Frédéric Hannoyer appointed COO and MD of SiPearl, Europe's exascale chip designer
Hannoyer will take the lead on the day to day running of SiPearl
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Delta Electronics unveils modular Edge data center range
Delta wants to fill a niche at the growing Edge
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CyrusOne appoints Bruce Duncan as CEO, replacing Tesh Durvasula
Duncan comes from the real estate industry as a newcomer to data centers
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Lenovo announces new AI servers for intense workloads
With the latest Intel chips
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AWS announces Snowcone edge box
AWS's Snowcone is 4.5 pounds of cuteness
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Ireland's CeADAR wins grant for new supercomputer, Leon
The supercomputer will help small enterprises and startups with analytics
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Alibaba to hire 5,000 people to expand Cloud business
Amidst major expansion plans