HP follows on the recent promotion of Imaging, Printing and Solutions head Enrique Lores to CEO with an organisational overhaul, CRN reports-- one seeing the company appoint a first chief commercial officer and move away from the current three-region structure.

Taking the post of CCO is current president of 3D printing and manufacturing Christoph Schell. A company veteran with over 20 years of experience, Schell was previously president of the HP Americas business. HP also names a successor to Lores in Imaging, Printing and Solutions with Tuan Tran, general manager and global head of office printing solutions.

Moving to the change in organisational structure, whereas we know HP as being divided into three large regions (EMEA, the Americas and APJ), come 1 November 2019 the company will be split in 10 geographic markets. Leading each market is a managing director reporting to Schell. In an interview with CRN Lores says the change in structure has been in the works for "some time now," and was set to happen regardless of the decision by CEO Dion Weisler, who stepped down due to a family health matter.

Intel uses the Hot Chips 31 conference to present the latest from its AI division-- the Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T (codenamed "Spring Crest") aimed at training and NNP-I (aka "Spring Hill") for inference.

As the company puts it, dedicated accelerators such as the Nervana NNPs are built with a focus on AI to provide "the right intelligence at the right time." The NNP-T is designed for deep learning training, with the two aims of training the network as fast as possible while doing so within a given power budget. It promises the features and requirements needed to solve for large models, without the overhead to support legacy technology, and can be tailored for a wide range of workloads.

HP's board of directors names Enrique Lores, currently President of HP’s Imaging, Printing and Solutions business, the company’s new President and CEO, effective November 1.

Dion Weisler steps down due to a family health matter-- and will return home to Australia. He will work with Lores to ensure a seamless transition and will remain at the company through January 2020. Following this, Weisler will still serve on HP’s board of directors until the next annual meeting of stockholders.

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Intel and Lenovo announce a multi-year collaboration with a focus on high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), building on an existing partnership in the datacentre.

Through the team-up Lenovo will optimise the Intel portfolio of HPC and I hardware and software solutions, before bringing about a convergence and AI to "unlock new levels of customer insight." The two companies have already joined forces by combining the 2nd gen Intel Xeon Scalable platform and Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology, and currently 173 of the TOP500 fastest supercomputers run on Lenovo servers.