The spec for PCIe 7.0 has been announcedIt’s a new standard for even faster – incredibly quick – connections with PCIe components in your PCThe standard is still in the earliest stages, though, and won’t be here for a long time (PCIe 6.0 hasn’t quite arrived yet, in fact)PCIe (PCI Express) connectivity continues to forge…
It has long been said that an organisation’s greatest asset is its people. Employees are the driving force behind innovation, customer engagement, revenue growth, and company culture. In an era where political, social, and economic climates are in constant flux, particularly with ongoing debates surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), it is more critical than…
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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT has appointed Sharron Gunn as its new group chief executive officer. Gunn takes over leadership from interim CEO Rob Deri, and she has been working for BCS since February to transform its learning and development and membership divisions. She previously worked for 23 years at the Institute of Chartered…
The government has put out a call to hire 25 scientists and technologists with expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and quantum computing to advise on policy and build technology that supports public services. The programme is based on secondment to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The goal is…
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Cisco has unveiled its plans to prepare networking for the era of quantum computing. As it officially opened its Quantum Labs in Santa Monica, the company announced that it has developed a prototype quantum network entanglement chip, in collaboration with the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. According to Cisco, the chip generates pairs of…
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Over the past few months, some significant breakthroughs in quantum computing technology have indicated how quickly it’s evolving. While it remains very much in the domain of academia and researchers tackling error correction, the roadmaps of quantum computing businesses suggest that useful machines are on their way. IBM’s roadmap shows that this year, there will…
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Saudi Arabia is investing in foreign deeptech startups to get them to come to its country and help it build an industry, because its own sci-tech ecosystem is too immature to meet its ambition of becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art fields of technology. The yawning gap to the goal it set for deeptech to…
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Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…
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The Gefion AI Supercomputer (GAIS) project, which delivers Denmark’s first artificial intelligence (AI) turbo-charged supercomputer, has positioned Denmark as the most advanced of the Nordic region’s quantum computing investing nations. It also serves to accelerate the use of AI to drive innovation across Denmark’s business and industrial sectors. Built on the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD AI…
A team of researchers have published a paper in which they show that a quantum computer can produce certified randomness, which has numerous application areas such as in cryptography. According to the paper, published in Nature, random-number generation is a natural task to demonstrate quantum computing’s supremacy over traditional, classical computing, as randomness is intrinsic…
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