Hardware

The end devices, processors, servers, and other computing equipment that enables and utilizes edge computing. This category also includes developments in the housings, maintenance and operations of edge data centers and deployments.

Investors find AI hardware an attractive opportunity; researchers put AI in an eye

Mar 12, 2020

Investors continue to see value in artificial intelligence chips operating on the edge. Two such chip companies received a total…

Hardware roundup: edge-optimized servers, software-defined AI hardware, edge-cloud network services

Mar 9, 2020

SolidRun has partnered with Gyrfalcon Technology to develop an edge-optimized ARM-based AI inference server to improve GPU performance while reducing…

Going deterministic: Huawei serves up a core 5G service

Mar 5, 2020

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is promoting several product announcements, not least of which is what it says is the first…

New materials, quantum computing will make edge computing dominant

Mar 1, 2020

A pair of researchers with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s premier, big-picture research…

Deep learning chips to grow 40% in Asia-Pacific by 2027

Mar 1, 2020

Deep learning chips are taking off in the Asia-Pacific region despite technology and infrastructure shortcomings in the area’s developing economies,…

Dell’s offers new edge products; meanwhile some buyers still have IoT doubts

Feb 25, 2020

Several new edge systems introduced by Dell Inc. this month directly address the needs of businesses trying to make sense…

Edge vendors are finding new ways to make a little electricity go a long way

Feb 24, 2020

Eta Compute Inc. is shipping the first production silicon for what it says is the first-ever artificial intelligence multicore chip…

Schneider Electric backs up edge with new UPS systems

Feb 20, 2020

Schneider Electric has debuted a 230-volt version of its short-depth APC Smart-UPS with interactive uninterruptible power supply lithium-ion batteries for…