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Google plans another campus in Silicon Valley which will include a new center for some of its hardware products, CNBC reported. Google has been buying up land in northern San Jose, California, spending more than $389 million on what preliminary plans show will include a research and development center, according to CNBC. The campus, which it calls Midpoint, will be located between Google’s current Mountain View headquarters and its mixed-use campus in San Jose. Midpoint will have five… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., the world’s biggest semiconductor maker, gave a lackluster third-quarter sales forecast, indicating its data-center chip business continues to suffer market-share losses in the face of stiffer competition. Sales in the current period will be about $18.2 billion, Intel said in a statement Thursday. That compares with average analyst projections of $18.3 billion. Adjusted gross margin, a measure of profitability, will be about 55%, the company said, and per-share… Source link

LOS ANGELES — Not many players walked away from Game 4 of the Western Conference finals with an efficient scoring night. It was an ugly, brick-shooting affair the Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix Suns were embroiled in on Saturday night at Staples Center. But the difference-maker was one of the rare players who had a dominant evening as it was big man Deandre Ayton who led the Suns to an 84-80 win to give his team a commanding 3-1 series lead. Ayton recorded 19 points on 8-for-14 shooting, a… Source link

We’re now two years removed from Kawhi Leonard’s decision to leave the Toronto Raptors after capturing the franchise’s first title and join the Los Angeles Clippers in pursuit of a championship in L.A.  Those aspirations haven’t exactly gone as planned. Despite tying their first round series 2-2 on the road against the Dallas Mavericks, the Clippers are (once again) on the brink of elimination after losing Game 5 on their home court Thursday night. To make matters worse, Kawhi and his… Source link

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a press conference. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Graphics card maker Nvidia (NVDA) reported its fiscal Q1 2022 earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday, beating analysts’ expectations for the quarter. Here’s how the company performed versus what Wall Street was expecting based on Bloomberg’ consensus data. Revenue: $5.66 billion versus $5.41 billion expected Earnings per share: $3.66 versus $3.31 expected Gaming: $2.76… Source link

One of the biggest challenges to eliminating the use of carbon-based energy is the lack of market demand for cleaner sources, but Google hopes to fill that void with an ambitious goal at its massive data centers, including one in Oklahoma. Google recently announced it wants to reach 24/7 use of clean energy by 2030 at every one of its offices and data centers. Until now, the company has boosted its use of renewable energy consumption by matching its annual electricity use with purchases of… Source link

You may or may not have noticed, but Google says YouTube videos should now look better and load faster. That’s thanks to a new chip the company has designed inhouse and deployed in its data centers to compress video content. Google says the chips, called Video (Trans)Coding Units, or VCUs, do that faster and more efficiently than was possible before. Traditional CPUs, the company found, aren’t great at video transcoding. Related: You Can Now… Source link

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced it will host its 2021 All-Star game in Denver this summer, just days after pulling the game out of Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new voting rights bill. “Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and the State of Colorado for their support of this summer’s All-Star Game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We appreciate their flexibility and enthusiasm to deliver a first-class event for our game and the… Source link

Google intends to set up a data center in Israel for its cloud computing services, which may entail an outlay of hundreds of millions of dollars, Haaretz reported. Google could establish its data center in the nation as a regional hub, which would match plans from firms such as Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon, Haaretz said. The potential investment would leverage a planned… Source link

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the second major health system to sign on with Google to pilot its controversial clinical search tool. The technology is designed to offer clinicians a longitudinal view of patient records and the ability to quickly search through those records through a single secure tool, the health system said in a press release. The tech giant and its first health system partner, Ascension, faced widespread criticism more than a year ago after news broke about a… Source link