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Intel Sets Ice Lake Apart From AMD EPYC With AI, Systems Approach
The chipmaker launches its long-anticipated third-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, which feature up to 40 cores and come with new acceleration capabilities for AI and cryptography as well as new security features. Intel says the new acceleration improvements make Ice Lake faster than AMD’s new third-generation EPYC chips across certain workloads for AI, cloud and high-performance computing. By Dylan Martin April 06, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
Intel is fighting against the rise of AMD’s EPYC processors with a new line of Xeon Scalable processors featuring dedicated acceleration for AI and cryptography, but the semiconductor giant said the bigger advantage comes from its wider product portfolio and software investments.
Working with Secure Enclaves in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here s how to get started with this new feature.
By Joey D Antoni
03/15/2021
At the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference, there were a few announcements around the Azure SQL (Microsoft s marketing term to describe all of its various SQL Server-related projects, both on-premises and in the cloud) platform. These announcements include the ability to patch Windows servers running on Azure without rebooting, and some enhancements to the Azure Synapse Analytics and Cosmos DB platforms.
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