Intel has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center, for approximately $2 billion. Habana’s Gaudi AI Training Processor is currently sampling with...
Cisco agreed to acquire Exablaze, a privately-held designer and manufacturer of FPGA-based devices aimed at reducing latency and improving network performance. Financial terms were not disclosed. Exablaze, which is based...
Clumio, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, announced $135 million in series C funding for its SaaS for enterprise backup. The company first emerged from stealth in August to...
NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made an equity investment in Metawave, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California that is developing an analog beamsteering radar platform and 5G platforms which consist...
Volterra, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, emerged from stealth to unveil its distributed cloud platform for deploying and managing applications. The SaaS-based offering integrates a broad range of...
Qualcomm Ventures launched a global 5G Fund, which will invest up to $200M over the next 4-5 years in startups helping build the 5G ecosystem. The fund was announced at...
ModelOp, formerly Open Data Group (ODG), has relaunched with a focus on AI-based model operations in large enterprises. The idea is to integrate data science and machine learning with enterprise...
SK Telecom has made an equity investment in ID Quantique, a start-up based in Switzerland that is developing quantum cryptography. The European Union has launched a 3-year European research project,...
Pensando Systems, a start-up based in San Jose, California, emerged from stealth to unveil its first product -- a software-defined edge services platform that was developed in collaboration with the...
Neat, a start-up based in Oslo, Norway, launched its portfolio of meeting room systems designed for Zoom Video Communications. Neat Bar has a dedicated controller and optional scheduling display and...
OSARO, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $16 million in Series B funding for its machine learning software for industrial automation. The company’s flagship product, OSARO Pick, automates stationary...
Bigleaf Networks, a start-up based in Beaverton, Oregon, announced $21 million in Series B funding for its cloud-first SD-WAN. Bigleaf says that while current networking technologies have been built for...
128 Technology, a start-up based in Burlington, Massachusetts, closed $30 million in Series D financing for its "Session Smart" Routing technology. “The latest round of funding comes at a pivotal...
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