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Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship welcomes Ana Bakshi as new executive director
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship announced that Ana Bakshi has been named its new executive director. Bakshi stepped into the role at the start of the fall semester and will collaborate closely with the managing director, Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice Bill Aulet, to elevate the center to higher levels. “Ana is uniquely…
Transform Your Data Center Next Gen PCIe Gen5 SSDs for AI and Big Data Acceleration
Introduction: The Evolution of SSD Technology Ongoing innovations of AI, Big Data analytics and real-time processing are greatly expanding data, which is now pushing the limits of more conventional data storage infrastructures. Organizations and data centers are struggling to meet the demands of the workload with more reliable and high-performance storage systems. To meet the…
MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work
Starting in July, MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative in the Department of Economics will usher in a significant new era of research, policy, and education of the next generation of scholars, made possible by a gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation. In recognition of the gift and the expansion…
Power Tips #140: Designing a data center power architecture with supply and processor rail-monitoring solutions
Machine intelligence enables a new era of productivity and is becoming an integral part of our lives and societies across many disciplines and functions. Machine intelligence relies on computing platforms that execute code, decipher data, and learn from trillions of data points in fractions of a second. The computing hardware for machine intelligence needs to…
Data center power meets rising energy demands amid AI boom
Texas Instruments’ APEC-related releases are power management chips centered around supporting the AI-driven power demands in data centers. The releases include the first 48-V integrated hot-swap eFuse with power-path protection (TPS1685) and an integrated GaN power stage (gate driver + FET) in the industry-standard TOLL package. In a conversation with Priya Thanigai, VP and Business…
TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look
On Monday, TSMC announced plans to invest $100 billion in expanding its U.S. manufacturing capacity. The funds will go toward three additional fabs, two advanced packaging plants, and a major R&D facility. We spoke with the company to learn more about its plans and some additional details. The extra $100 billion investment adds to TSMC’s…