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Intel Ordered To Pay $2.18B In Patent Trial
by Dylan Martin
Intel denies such infringement and, in a statement to CRN, vows to appeal the order. The patents in question were transferred from NXP Semiconductors in 2019 to VLSI Technology LLC, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, which is owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group.
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Deloitte Packs New Center For AI Computing With Nvidia DGX A100s
by Dylan Martin
The consulting giant establishes the new Deloitte Center for AI Computing, which uses Nvidia’s DGX POD reference architecture as its foundation. Deloitte plans to use six powerful DGX A100 systems to accelerate AI development for a variety of customers.
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HP CEO Lores: Partners Should ‘Embrace And Drive’ New Printing Opportunities
by Kyle Alspach
With the hybrid workforce expected to continue into the future, ‘there is going to be an opportunity in connecting office printing and home printing,’ HP CEO Enrique Lores said.
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Nvidia CEO: Industrial Data Center Sales Grew Faster Than Hyperscalers
by Dylan Martin
Jensen Huang says AI is having its ‘smartphone moment’ for every industry. ‘All of these industries, whether you’re in medical imaging or in lawn mowers, you’re going to have data centers that are hosting your products, just like the [cloud service providers],’ he says of Nvidia’s new milestone in the company’s latest earnings.
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Biden To Order Review Of U.S. Semiconductor, IT Supply Chains
by Dylan Martin
The incoming executive order by President Biden will call for a supply chain review of semiconductors and advanced chip packaging technologies as well as IT technologies. The news comes after top U.S. semiconductor executives urged Biden to rekindle domestic chip manufacturing with ‘substantial funding.’
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Xilinx Makes Composable, Easy-To-Code SmartNIC With Alveo SN1000
by Dylan Martin
Xilinx, which is being acquired by AMD for $35 billion, has revealed the Alveo SN1000, the ‘industry’s first’ composable SmartNIC. ‘We’re providing an application-specific acceleration pipeline, where our customers can say, ‘I want this level of performance for storage or security or network acceleration,’ a Xilinx rep says.
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HP Printing President Tuan Tran On The ‘New Opportunity’ For Partners In WFH Print
by Kyle Alspach
Channel partners can find growth by outfitting workers with home printers featuring strong security and manageability, Tran says in an interview with CRN.
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Gigabyte Axes GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO, Disrupting Partner Server Plans
by Dylan Martin
Multiple partners tell CRN that Gigabyte’s sudden end-of-life for its GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO graphics card, which only launched a few months ago, has disrupted server plans with budget-constrained partners and set back delivery timelines as a result. An analyst says Gigabyte’s move underlines one of the risks partners face when they decide to use a product intended for desktop PCs in a server.
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Nvidia-Arm Deal Faces Concerns From Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm: Reports
by Dylan Martin
The concerns focus around Arm’s historic open-licensing model for silicon designs, which allows companies like Qualcomm, Microsoft and Google to license IP to build their own processors. Nvidia insists that it will keep Arm’s licensing model open, echoing a promise made by CEO Jensen Huang last year.
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Gigabyte: COVID-19 Surge At L.A. Ports Delaying Shipments
by Dylan Martin
In an internal document, the Taiwanese company, which makes motherboards, servers and graphics cards, said a slowdown in container processing at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is causing delays and cited an article about hundreds of dockworkers who have contracted COVID-19 at the ports.
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Intel, AMD CEOs Urge Biden To Boost U.S. Chip Manufacturing
by Dylan Martin
Top semiconductor executives are calling for President Joe Biden to rekindle domestic chip manufacturing with ‘substantial funding’ so that the U.S. can become more competitive with other countries that have poured significant investments into chip foundries like TSMC. ‘The costs of inaction are high,’ they say in a letter.
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Intel Regains PC Market Share Against AMD AS CPU Capacity Expands
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant’s improved capacity for lower-end CPUs helped it regain share against AMD in PCs, even as AMD continued to grow fast. ‘This is an Indy 500 race, where both cars are going over 200 miles an hour, and one’s going a little faster,’ Mercury Research’s Dean McCarron says.
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Intel Lures Back Veteran Engineer Sunil Shenoy As Gelsinger Rallies The Troops
by Dylan Martin
The 33-year Intel veteran engineer is rejoining the chipmaker as head of the Design Engineering Group after incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger teased last week that ‘key leaders’ will be returning to the company to help him stage a comeback.
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Intel’s Jason Kimrey On 4 Technologies Key To COVID-19 Recovery
by Dylan Martin
‘While the impact was significant and to some industries was literally catastrophic, technology is at the heart of the recovery, and we believe this creates a lot of opportunity for all of us moving forward,’ the chipmaker’s U.S. channel chief says at The Channel Company’s Best of Breed (BoB) Winter 2021 event.
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