Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is about to enter the metaverse. The chip giant said its EPYC chips were selected by Meta (formerly known as Facebook) to help power its data centers at its virtual Accelerated Data Center Premiere event Monday. AMD explained the two companies worked together to develop a high-performance, power-efficient processor based on the company’s 3rd Generation EPYC processor. “Adding Meta is certainly a very significant piece,” AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said on Yahoo Finance… Source link
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Amazon and Microsoft have taken on much of the same work Google was scheduled to do for the DOD in providing analysis tools for aerial footage, contract records show. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images After Google decided to quit working on Project Maven in 2018 thanks to staff protests, rivals Amazon and Microsoft quietly took on Department of Defense contracts worth $50 million to help the military identify objects from drone and other aerial footage,… Source link
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