Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss dive into IBM’s Q2 2022 revenue report and share their insights on IBM’s healthy nine percent revenue increase to $15.5B amid growing and threatening financial headwinds around the globe.
STMicroelectronics, GlobalFoundries Building New Chip Plant
STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries are building a new European chip plant that will crank out another 620,000 chip wafers by 2026 to expand production.
FedEx Data Centers, Mainframes Shuttering in 100% Cloud Move
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss and fellow Futurum analysts explore FedEx’s move to shut its data centers and mainframes by 2024 and take its IT operations to the cloud to save $400 million a year as it battles its competitors in a fierce shipping and logistics marketplace.
Google Cloud Open Source Expertise Now for Sale to Customers
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how Google Cloud’s open source expertise will be sold to customers on a subscription basis starting in Q3 as the company moves to market its own vetted open source code as a service.
NVIDIA, Siemens Partner to Target the Industrial Metaverse
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss looks at how NVIDIA and Siemens are partnering to develop and enable an industrial metaverse by connecting NVIDIA Omniverse with Siemens Xcelerator platform to empower customers with new industrial metaverse opportunities and capabilities.
RISC-V International Adds Four ISA Chip Specification Approvals
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines the addition by RISC-V International of four ISA chip specification approvals, bringing even broader tools for chip designers to improve and speed their latest chip designs.
NVIDIA MLPerf 2.0 AI Training Test Leadership Continues
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores how NVIDIA’s MLPerf 2.0 AI training test leadership continues and shows new progress in the latest MLPerf 2.0 benchmark results and rankings of AI inferencing platforms.
New Qualcomm AI Stack Powers the Connected Intelligent Edge
The News: Qualcomm has unveiled its Qualcomm AI Stack portfolio of software tools to make it easier for OEMs and developers to build AI applications for a wide range of devices that run on Qualcomm chips. The Qualcomm AI Stack is designed to unleash the AI power of Connected Intelligent Edge devices, including smartphones, IoT, automotive, XR, cloud, and mobile …
IBM Cloud and AI Team with Wimbledon to Boost Fan Experience
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss dives into how IBM Cloud and AI team with Wimbledon to boost fan experience, adding feature updates that give tennis fans more information about favorite players and encourage fans to make their own match predictions that can be compared with those of other fans and IBM Watson.
SiFive X280 RISC-V Processor Gets Scalability, Trust Updates
Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores SiFive’s announcement around the expanded the features of its latest SiFive X280 RISC-V processors, and explores both the opportunities and challenges ahead for the company.