Canada backs Ranovus for its photonic interconnects

Ranovus, which develops photonic interconnects, has secured a $36 million contribution through the Government of Canada's Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to support a $100 million project that will advance the domestic production and manufacturing of semiconductor products.The project aims to develop the highest performing and most power-efficient technologies for interconnect computer chips for next-generation artificial intelligence systems. Building...

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Nokia extends AVA Energy software to data centers, base stations

Nokia has upgraded its multivendor AVA Energy efficiency software with enhanced algorithms and power saving measures to now enables CSPs to lower power consumption in their data centers, in addition to network base stations, batteries, and air conditioning units in telco networks.Nokia estimates its updated AVA Energy efficiency software can reduce power usage of up to 30%, up about 10 percentage points relative to the original software, based on...

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Windstream Wholesale adds 400G Toronto-to-Chicago route

Windstream Wholesale has partnered with Bluewater Regional Networks have partnered to establish a high-capacity route from Toronto to Chicago.The new network path provides 10 GbE, 100 GbE and 400 GbE waves from Toronto to Sarnia, Ontario, and then on to Lapeer, Michigan, and Chicago. It features multiple access points throughout Ontario, Quebec and Michigan, offering diversity to anywhere in the US.Bluewater Regional Networks, headquartered in Sarnia,...

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IBM to build Quantum Center with Fundación Ikerbasque

IBM will establish a leading quantum computational hub in partnership with Fundación Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science in the Basque Country of Spain. This is the second such IBM Quantum Computational Center to be announced in Europe.The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center will provide Qiskit Runtime services from a 127-qubit IBM Quantum System One located in San Sebastian and managed by IBM. The initiative aims to advance quantum...

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Intel intros pint-sized enterprise PC

Intel introduced its NUC 13 Pro, a small, enterprise-class PC with up to a 13th Gen Intel Core i7 processor with six Performance-cores (P-cores) and eight Efficient-cores (E-cores).HighlightsSupport for up to 64GB dual-channel DDR4-3200 MHz memory.M.2 slots for PCIe x4 Gen 4 NVMe SSD and second SSD.Intel i226 Ethernet for speeds up to 2.5 Gbps.Intel Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.Two HDMI ports and two Thunderbolt™ 4 ports (four displays at 4K@60 Hz).Three...

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Raja Koduri leaves Intel for AI gaming start-up

Raja Koduri, Intel Chief Architect and Executive Vice President, Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) business unit, has stepped down to become founder of generative AI gaming startup. Earlier in his career, he was with AMD and App...

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