AWS tries a telco tack; Teradata's new vector
Today on Product Saturday: AWS spruces up its Outposts server gear for wireless carriers, Teradata jumps on the vector database train, and the quote of the week.
This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Despite recent challenges to their hegemony, x86 chips still power the vast majority of cloud and on-premises servers in use today. However, over all those years Intel and AMD tweaked x86 in subtle but incompatible ways to suit their own needs, and Tuesday's agreement is a promise to unify x86.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Strange times make for strange bedfellows in chips, Google goes nuclear, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Intel's badly needed new Xeon server processors, the most interesting launch from Cloudflare's birthday week, and the quote of the week.
Why AMD's $5 billion bet on data-center systems design could make Intel's problems worse, OpenAI brings fine-tuning to its most powerful enterprise model, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why U.S. chip companies have invested billions in making Israel into an alternative chip-making powerhouse, Ampere and Qualcomm team up to tackle AI inference, and the latest enterprise moves.
Chip companies have invested billions in Israeli manufacturing and design facilities over the past decade, and they've continued that push over the last six months. A unique talent base and a rich history of tech innovation drew them in, but the region's instability looms over that decision.
Today: Google Cloud expands its hardware strategy and (of course) talks up AI, why Intel has nowhere to go but up when it comes to its own AI strategy, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: The federal government wants to know how much influence the Big Three cloud providers have over their AI investments, Intel's data-center revenue continues to decline, and this week in enterprise moves.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Intel makes another software move in hopes of denting Nvidia's AI advantage, why VMware partners are up in arms over Broadcom's new policies, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: turns out cloud migrations are hard, even when you work for the cloud company, Intel tries again to compete in the AI chip market, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.