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AMD Takes on Mini PCs

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AMD Takes on Mini PCs

AMD looks to butt heads with the Intel NUCs as it announces plans to create an "open ecosystem" for OEMs wanting to create high-performance mini PCs powered by Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors.

Initially aimed at the industrial, media, communications and enterprise markets, the machines promise an open and customisable platform complete with high-performance CPU/GPU processor with "expansive" peripheral support, in-depth security features and a processor availability clocking at 10 years. In addition, AMD already counts ASRock Industrial, EEPD, OnLogic and Simply NUc as OEM partners.

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Server Chip Startup Nuvia Emerges

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Server Chip Startup Nuvia Emerges

Nuvia, a startup looking to challenge the likes of Intel and AMD in datacentre processors, emerges from stealth following the announcement of a successful first investment round worth around $53 million.

Founded in 2019, Nuvia is the brainchild of John Bruno, Gerard Williams III and Manu Gulati, three industry veterans with experience at AMD, Apple, Arm, Broadcom and Google. Together, the three count 100 patents in the development of 20 chips at their respective companies. As such the startup can count on a rich experience in silicon design, and the founders claim they will bring "industry-leading performance and energy efficiency for the datacentre." And just as well, since Williams was chief architect on all Apple CPU designs, including the recent Lightning core in the A13.

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Better-Than-Expected Q3 Results for Nvidia

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Better-Than-Expected Q3 Results for Nvidia

Nvidia reports fiscal Q3 2020 (ending 27 October 2019) revenues reaching $3.014 billion-- a -5% Y-o-Y decline, but a slight increase compared to the $2.58bn of the previous quarter, making it better than the more pessimistic expectations of Wall Street.

"Our gaming business and demand from hyperscale customers powered Q3's results," the company says. "The realism of computer graphics is taking a giant leap forward with Nvidia RTX. This quarter, we have laid the foundation for where AI will ultimately make the greatest impact. We extended our reach beyond the cloud, to the edge, where GPU-accelerated 5G, AI and IoT will revolutionise the world’s largest industries. We see strong data center growth ahead, driven by the rise of conversational AI and inference.”

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Mirantis Buys Docker Enterprise

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Mirantis Buys Docker Enterprise

Mirantis acquires the Docker Enterprise Platform, bringing the leading container platform, employees and "hundreds" of customers into the OpenStack and Kubernetes cloud company. The financial details of the deal are not available.

The acquisition includes the Docker Enterprise Technology Platform and all associated IP, namely Docker Enterprise Engine, Docker Trusted Registry, Docker Unified Control Plane and Docker CLI. As mentioned earlier, Mirantis also gets all Docker Enterprise customers and contracts, as well as strategic technology alliances and partner programs.

“The Mirantis Kubernetes technology joined with the Docker Enterprise Container Platform brings simplicity and choice to enterprises moving to the cloud. Delivered as a service, it’s the easiest and fastest path to the cloud for new and existing applications,” Mirantis says. “The Docker Enterprise employees are among the most talented cloud native experts in the world and can be immensely proud of what they achieved. We’re very grateful for the opportunity to create an exciting future together and welcome the Docker Enterprise team, customers, partners, and community.”

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Google Claims "Quantum Supremacy"

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Google Claims

Google announces it has achieved what it describes as "quantum supremacy," a chip able to handle calculations impossible for traditional computers. However IBM disputes the claim as it insist classical systems can, in fact, handle the calculation in question.

The Google paper on the topic, "Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor," was leaked last month after it was accidentally uploaded on a NASA website before it was officially published in Nature. It describes "Sycamore", a 54-qubit processor able to prove the randomness of numbers produced by a random number generation in all of 200 seconds. In comparison, Google says, the same calculation would take faster super computer no less than 10000 years. And the name of that fastest supercomputer in the world? The IBM Summit.

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Cloud, Office Drive Microsoft Fiscal Q1 2020

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Cloud, Office Drive Microsoft Fiscal Q1 2020

The Microsoft fiscal Q1 2020 (ending 30 September 2019) results see revenues reach $33.1 billion, a 14% Y-o-Y increase, while operating income is up by 27% Y-o-Y to $12.7bn. Net income totals $107bn, a 21% Y-o-Y increase.

“The world’s leading companies are choosing our cloud to build their digital capability,” CEO Satya Nadella says. “We are accelerating our innovation across the entire tech stack to deliver new value for customers and investing in large and growing markets with expansive opportunity.”

Driving results for the quarter is the cloud, with the commercial segment generating $11.6bn in revenue, up 36% Y-o-Y. Intelligent Cloud revenue totals $10.8bn, a 27% Y-o-Y increase, with server products and cloud services revenue increasing by 30% Y-o-Y thanks to Azure growth of 59% Y-o-Y. Enterprise services revenue, on the other hand, is up by 7% Y-o-Y.

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Capgemini Names Aiman Ezzat CEO

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Capgemini Names Aiman Ezzat CEO

French system integration giant Capgemini names longtime deputy and current COO Aiman Ezzat successor to CEO Paul Hermelin, part of an internal managerial transition initiated back in 2017.

Ezzat takes the reins of the company on 20 May 2020, following the shareholders general meeting. The succession follows the previous decision to split the Capgemini governance structure by separating the roles of CEO and chairman. Thus, Hermelin remains chairman of the board while Ezzat takes responsibility for the general management of the company.

Ezzat has over 20 years of experience at Capgemini and has worked in many countries, including the UK and US. He was appointed COO of the financial services Global Business Unit (GBU) in November 2007 and became its global head in December 2008, a position he held until 2012. From December 2012 until 2018 he served as CFO, before becoming COO.

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