D-Wave executives stirred up some controversy earlier this year when they claimed a smaller version of its Advantage 2 annealing quantum system, armed with 1,200 qubits, had reached “quantum supremacy ...

And as far as we can tell, Microsoft has the largest platform business in the world, and it is also the most profitable of the three big clouds based in the United States. In the quarter ended in June ...

HPC storage systems are expensive, but so are the people who maintain and operate them, and the costs of both and downtime and outages have often been overlooked in the past.

A decade ago, when traditional machine learning techniques were first being commercialized, training was incredibly hard and expensive, but because models were relatively small, inference – running ...

If HBM memory could be stacked up with dozens and dozens of DRAM chips and more stacks could affordably be wrapped around GPUs and XPUs, there would not be a need for a memory godbox at all to help ...

The net result, says Rangarajan, is that application and systems software porting, testing, and validation expenses can be a lot higher in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and these factors ...

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Both the global economy and spending on information technology are so vast that it is hard to really grasp the numbers sometimes. But we need to get a handle on those numbers to see where the ...

That’s where Google Cloud’s open lakehouse comes in. It’s the latest development in an architecture called the lakehouse, which combines structured and unstructured data. Google built a version of ...

We’re now in Quantum 2.0, defined by the ability to “manipulate individual particles of matter, making them do our bidding,” Michael Eggleston, data and devics group leader, and Nishant Batra, Nokia’s ...