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Intel needs to come clean about Meltdown and Spectre — The Verge

A lot more transparency is needed from Apple and AMD too; The Verge's Tom Warren writes. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16871856/intel-cpu-meltdown-spectre-response-computer-slow-down-issues

Intel launches Stratix 10 MX FPGA

Intel has launched Stratix 10 MX FPGA, what the company says is the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA), with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2).

Intel’s Diane Bryant joins Google Cloud as COO

Former group president at Intel, Diane Bryant, is joining Google Cloud as the company's chief operating officer.

AWS introduces new instances

Amazon has launched a bare metal instance offering for its Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and introduced a new Storage Optimized instance family (H1 instances).

Inspur awarded contract to build a Petascale AI Supercomputer

Inspur has been awarded a contract to design and build a Petascale AI Supercomputer for Central China Normal University.