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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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Parallel Database Architecture in DBMS – Advantages & Disadvantages

The Crazy Programmer

In this kind of architecture multiple processors, memory drives, and storage disks are associated to collaborate with each other and work as a single unit. In this type of database system , the hardware profile is designed to fulfill all the requirements of the database and user transactions to speed up the process.

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NeuReality raises $8M for its novel AI inferencing platform

TechCrunch

NeuReality , an Israeli AI hardware startup that is working on a novel approach to improving AI inferencing platforms by doing away with the current CPU-centric model, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8 million seed round. The group of investors includes Cardumen Capital, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd and Varana Capital.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? For us, the AI hardware needs are in the continuum of what we do every day.

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Nvidia points to the future of AI hardware

CIO

And if the Blackwell specs on paper hold up in reality, the new GPU gives Nvidia AI-focused performance that its competitors can’t match, says Alvin Nguyen, a senior analyst of enterprise architecture at Forrester Research. They basically have a comprehensive solution from the chip all the way to data centers at this point,” he says.

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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

CIO

In generative AI, data is the fuel, storage is the fuel tank and compute is the engine. All this data means that organizations adopting generative AI face a potential, last-mile bottleneck, and that is storage. Novel approaches to storage are needed because generative AI’s requirements are vastly different.