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On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of Inspector’s General, News of the Olympic Movement, Harry Reads the Trades, It’s a Smart World,

by Kevin Morris Xilinx made a batch of announcements this week aimed at the data center. The company rolled out a new line of programmable network 100Gb/s SmartNIC interface cards, a “SmartWorld AI” video analytics solution, an algorithmic trading framework, and (finally) the Xilinx App Store. Taken together, they make good on Xilinx’s long-term “data center first” strategy. And, viewed on a more macro scale, they represent the execution of a strategy to dramatically grow the FPGA market. As data rates have skyrocketed, increasing amounts of CPU power have been c...

Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane Share Copy Xilinx will today launch a network card that not only offloads acceleration to an FPGA but also to an on-board NXP chip containing 16 Arm CPU cores. The Cortex-A72 Arm core cluster is expected to run Linux – Ubuntu and Yocto are supported – and act as the control plane, and the gate array as the data plane chugging through packets flowing in and out of the card. The addition of extra CPU oomph is perhaps a sign that customers wanted to run application software and services on the board as well as use its raw hardwar...

In this, the first week of the Biden administration, Harry brings us It’s a Smart World, Harry Reads the Trades, News of Bees, News of the Olympic Movement

No Business as Usual; The Game Has Changed Companies that emerge from this crisis with solid finances, a resilient supply chain, skilled workers and the capacity to analyse data will be well-placed to seize new opportunities Illustration by Raj Verma Among the few books that are interesting and inspirational, Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors lays out his brilliant managerial practices and provides insights into the new consumer economy that he and General Motors created over half a century ago. An entire era has gone by since, and we find ourselves in a situation that is uncannily ...