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Lakeba and Microsoft sign strategic partnership to support growth of high-tech businesses

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Media Release by Microsoft

Global venture catalyst firm Lakeba has today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft that aims to boost the scalability and security of Lakeba’s technology-led businesses. The deal also aims to accelerate the growth of Lakeba’s DoxAI digital services marketplace for the financial services industry.

Since 2013, Sydney-based Lakeba has built businesses that have developed digital solutions in financial services, real estate, retail, fast-moving consumer goods and other sectors. These solutions have featured software-as-a-service, backend-as-a-service, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Lakeba has been a Microsoft Gold partner since 2018. This new agreement will unlock more ways for the firm to leverage Microsoft’s robust, resilient and secure Azure cloud infrastructure. This will enable Lakeba to boost the scalability and security capabilities of its digital businesses – many of which facilitate the exchange of sensitive information.

The venture catalyst firm will also use Azure to facilitate the expansion of DoxAI. The global marketplace is designed to help financial services organisations and small to medium-sized businesses find disruptive technologies that will help them increase efficiency, accelerate digital transformation and scale their operations.

Through its new partnership with Microsoft, Lakeba will be able to provide more comprehensive and customisable solutions through DoxAI for customers wanting to create tailored, end-to-end workflows.

Giuseppe Porcelli, CEO and founder of Lakeba, said: “The vision of this unique partnership is to support the growth of high-tech business. It will strengthen our ability to build sophisticated digital services and products for financial services through DoxAI. It will also provide a safe and secure environment for DoxAI to drive more lucrative venture building in the future.”

Porcelli said Lakeba and Microsoft have hit the ground running on their new partnership, with the venture catalyst firm’s IT engineers already receiving training on Azure’s capabilities through Microsoft’s Enterprise Skills Initiative.

“This engineering capability has meant Lakeba has already been able to provide a more advanced service to clients, including ANZ and Macquarie Bank. ANZ had initially been using our product for its commercial arm and will be soon using it as an enterprise asset.”

“This new partnership highlights the power of collaboration in helping grow digitally-led businesses of the future.”

Client quotes:

“We have been impressed with DoxAI’s (a Lakeba Group company) market knowledge and expertise in our business and products to help co-design an Artificial Intelligence digital solution to improve our manual processes for document verification. The AI solution will help our business maintain compliance and provide scalability and efficiency for our processes.”

Richard McCarthy – Group Executive, Perpetual Corporate Trust, Perpetual

“Working together with DoxAI (as Lakeba Group company) as a dynamic business partner, we’re continually impressed by their high level of delivery and agility in adapting to continually changing market conditions – which helps us deliver innovative digital solutions for our customers.”

Guy Mendelson – Managing Director, Business Owners Portfolio, ANZ Bank

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Introducing Blockchain Node Engine: fully managed node-hosting for Web3 development

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Media Release by Google Cloud

Blockchain is changing the way the world stores and moves its information. Building on our commitment to help Web3 developers build and deploy new products on blockchain-based platforms, today we’re thrilled to announce Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine. 

Blockchains consist of transaction data that is permanently stored and encrypted, acting as decentralized databases of sorts. Instead of relying on a central entity to validate and store data, the governing infrastructure of a blockchain is a node — a device, such as a computer, laptop, or server, that contains a full copy of the transaction history of the blockchain. Nodes on a blockchain form a peer-to-peer network, constantly exchanging the latest blockchain data so that all nodes stay in sync.

While self-managed nodes are often difficult to deploy and require constant management, Blockchain Node Engine is a fully managed node-hosting service that can minimize the need for node operations. Web3 companies who require dedicated nodes can relay transactions, deploy smart contracts, and read or write blockchain data with the reliability, performance, and security they expect from Google Cloud compute and network infrastructure. 

Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported by Blockchain Node Engine, enabling developers to provision fully managed Ethereum nodes with secure blockchain access.

With Blockchain Node Engine, Web3 organizations enjoy the following benefits:

Streamlined provisioning
Today, manually deploying a node is a time-intensive process that involves provisioning a compute instance, installing an Ethereum client (e.g. geth), and waiting for the node to sync with the network. Syncing a full node from the first block (i.e., “genesis”) can take several days. Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine can make this process faster and easier by allowing developers to deploy a new node with a single operation, and specify the desired region and network (mainnet, testnet). 

Secure development
Customers that wish to secure their blockchain infrastructures currently have a limited set of options in the market. Blockchain Node Engine offers security configurations that can help prevent unauthorized access to the nodes. By placing nodes behind a Virtual Private Cloud firewall, only trusted machines and users are able to communicate with client endpoints. Additionally, other Google Cloud services such as Cloud Armor can help protect nodes from DDoS attacks. 

Fully managed operations
Ensuring that blockchain infrastructure is ready and available, typically means having a DevOps team on-hand to monitor the system and remediate problems during an outage. Blockchain Node Engine is a fully managed service, which can mean you don’t have to worry about availability. Google Cloud actively monitors the nodes and restarts them during outages as needed. By reducing the need for a dedicated DevOps team, and by offering Google Cloud’s service level agreement (SLA), Blockchain Node Engine can let your team focus on your users instead of your infrastructure.

Scaling Web3 innovation 

We look forward to supporting organizations with a reliable, easy-to-use blockchain node hosting service so they can focus their time on innovating and scaling their Web3 applications. 

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Samsung Electronics begins mass production of 8th-generation V-NAND with industry’s highest bit density

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Samsung Electronics today revealed it launched mass production of a 1-terabit (Tb) triple-level cell (TLC) eighth-generation Vertical NAND (V-NAND) with the highest bit density in the industry.

According to Samsung Electronics, the new V-NAND also has the greatest storage capacity to date, at 1Tb, allowing for more storage space in next-generation enterprise server systems around the world.

Samsung Electronics Executive Vice President of Flash Product & Technology SungHoi Hur added that as the market demands denser, higher-capacity storage, Samsung has used its sophisticated 3D scaling technology to reduce surface area and height while avoiding the cell-to-cell interference that generally happens when scaling down.

“Our eighth-generation V-NAND will help meet rapidly growing market demand and better position us to deliver more differentiated products and solutions, which will be at the very foundation of future storage innovations,” Samsung Electronics Executive Vice President of Flash Product & Technology SungHoi Hur stated.

By dramatically increasing bit productivity per wafer, Samsung was able to achieve the industry’s highest bit density. Based on the latest NAND flash standard, the Toggle DDR 5.0 interface, Samsung’s eighth-generation V-NAND has an input and output (I/O) throughput of up to 2.4 gigabits per second (Gbps), a 1.2X increase over the previous generation. This will let the new V-NAND to meet PCIe 4.0 and, subsequently, PCIe 5.0 performance requirements.

The eighth-generation V-NAND is projected to be the foundation for storage solutions that help improve storage capacity in next-generation enterprise servers, while also finding use in the automotive market, where dependability is key.

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ASICS shows future of Web3 commerce with launch of new ASICS x Solana UI Collection

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ASICS today takes a major step forward in its commitment to get the Web3 community moving with the launch of the new ASICS x Solana UI Collection. Featuring custom-made GT-2000™ 11 running shoes, customers will automatically receive a loyalty ASICS Badge NFT with purchase, with a chance to receive an airdrop of a limited number of ASICS x STEPN GT-2000™ NFTs. The shoes are exclusively available to purchase with USDC digital dollar currency via Solana Pay at ui.asics.com and available for pre-order for a limited five-day period from November 4 – 8.

Exclusively Designed for Everyday Activity
In a move to deliver on ASICS’ Web3 mission to create world-class experiences that get the global Web3 community moving, the collection has been exclusively designed for everyday activity. Suitable for all abilities, the GT-2000™ 11 performance running shoe is available in two custom designs: “light mode” and “dark mode”. The understated Solana-inspired design comes from the user interfaces (UI) on computer and phone screens to symbolize a healthy balance between screen time and physical activity.

ASICS Shows Future of Web3 Commerce
The first ever globally distributed physical product available to order using USDC on Solana Pay, ASICS has brought the best of physical and digital commerce together to provide a seamless end-to-end customer experience:

  • Borderless: Anyone in the world can buy as many shoes as they’d like
  • Instant: Global purchases in USDC digital dollar currency powered exclusively by Solana Pay, a decentralized payment standard and protocol built on Solana
  • Rewards: Automatically with their purchase, customers receive ASICS Badge NFTs which will unlock access to future tokengated ASICS rewards and experiences
  • Tokengating: ASICS Badge holders have an opportunity to receive a tokengated airdrop of ASICS x STEPN NFT sneakers, which can be used to play the powerhouse Move and Earn app that brings people to a healthier lifestyle by rewarding them with tokens for being active
  • Global efficiencies: The limited pre-order window reduces inventory and increases overall efficiencies in the production process – ASICS won’t make or ship more products than are purchased

Commenting on ASICS latest announcement, Joe Pace, Director of Web3 and Digital Goods at ASICS says, “The launch of the ASICS x Solana UI Collection is a major step forward for ASICS Web3 commerce. We’re proud to leverage Solana Pay and partner with STEPN to help us scale our mission to inspire the global Web3 community to create healthy habits with our products. Building on learnings and successes from our Sunrise Red and Genesis STEPN collections, we’re excited to continue delivering world-class Web3 experiences.”

“As a first mover in this space, ASICS is leading the industry by showing how customers and brands can come together around tokengated experiences that provide ongoing e-benefits to both sides,” said Josh Fried, Head of Payments Business Development at Solana Labs. “Furthermore, by using USDC payments on Solana Pay, ASICS is breaking down geographic barriers to facilitate transactions around the world and showing just how much more can be done with Web3 commerce.”

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IBM Launches New Software to Break Down Data Silos and Streamline Planning and Analytics

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Media Release by IBM

IBM has announced new software designed to help enterprises break down data and analytics silos so they can make data-driven decisions quickly and navigate unpredictable disruptions. IBM Business Analytics Enterprise is a suite of business intelligence planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and dashboard capabilities that provides users with a robust view of data sources across their entire business. Along with IBM Planning Analytics with Watson and IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, this suite also includes a new IBM Analytics Content Hub that helps streamline how users discover and access analytics and planning tools from multiple vendors in a single, personalized dashboard view.

According to an August 2022 Forrester report, advanced insights-driven organizations are 1.6x more likely to report using data, analytics, and insights to create experiences, products, and services that differentiate them within the market when compared to beginners1. However, companies are currently facing a highly dynamic operating environment where they must navigate unpredictable events such as supply chain disruptions, labor and skills shortages, evolving regulations, and more. The complexity of storing data across disparate silos can make this more challenging as teams collaborate across different analytics and business intelligence tools. To become data-driven, businesses can differentiate themselves by creating an enterprise-wide strategy that enables them to bring together their tools and put insights into the hands of decision makers.

Building on IBM’s existing portfolio of business intelligence solutions, IBM Business Analytics Enterprise includes a new IBM Analytics Content Hub. It is designed to allow users to view planning and analytics dashboards from multiple vendors, including tools like IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, IBM Planning Analytics with Watson, and other common business intelligence tools into a single view that combines elements from each in a dashboard tailored to their unique needs. Additionally, it features algorithms that can recommend role-based content to help users surface new stories, reports, and dashboards from across the organization to aid in decision-making. As more users click through materials within the IBM Analytics Content Hub, the solution analyzes usage patterns to recommend content that aligns with their specific interests.

New Capabilities for IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson; IBM Planning Analytics with Watson expected to be available on AWS

With today’s news, IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, an AI-powered business intelligence solution, now also includes new integration capabilities and enhanced forecasting that allows users to consider multiple factors and seasons in their trend predictions. Additionally, IBM Planning Analytics with Watson, an AI-powered solution that helps streamline financial and operational planning, is expected to be available as-a-Service on AWS later this year.

IBM Business Analytics Enterprise is designed to help break down silos so that the right teams can get the right data at the right time. For instance, an organization’s sales, HR, and operations teams each require access to data and insights from different business intelligence and planning tools for their specific needs, such as optimizing sales goals, building workforce forecasts, or predicting operational capacity. But when it’s necessary to share data and reporting across departments, complexities can arise because those teams are using multiple solutions. This can result in duplicate content across applications, which can threaten data consistency and quality. IBM Business Analytics Enterprise helps enterprise data be more easily shared, while remaining protected and avoiding data duplication by giving users across departments a single point of entry to view the data they need.

“Businesses today are trying to become more data-driven than ever as they navigate the unexpected in the face of supply chain disruptions, labor and skills shortages and regulatory changes,” said Dinesh Nirmal, General Manager of Data, AI and Automation, IBM. “But to truly be data-driven, organizations need to be able to provide their different teams with more comprehensive access to analytics tools and a more complete picture of their business data, without jeopardizing their compliance, security or privacy programs. IBM Business Analytics Enterprise offers a way to bring together analytics tools in a single view, regardless of which vendor it comes from or where the data resides.”

ALH Gruppe is a leading finance and insurance company in Germany, and with thousands of employees who need access to data insights, the majority of whom are not data scientists or highly technical users, they sought a solution to help streamline their data infrastructure even more.

“We’ve been using IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson for well over a decade now to support decision-making of all kinds across our business. We frequently use it in conjunction with other business intelligence tools, and one challenge was that those tools were always standing side-by-side with no connection between them and the data was separated,” said Bernd Oerthle, Head of Analytics Reporting and Infrastructure, ALH Gruppe. “With the new IBM Analytics Content Hub, we plan to connect internal stakeholders to multiple different BI solutions for easy access to self-service data, enabling better support for our end customers.”

The launch of Business Analytics Enterprise further builds on IBM’s strategy to provide businesses with tools to support data-driven decision-making. IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM’s business intelligence solutions work in tandem to help clients create a data fabric architecture that simplifies data integration, allowing them to run their analytics anywhere and take advantage of data across different environments.

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Scaling crypto innovation, from blockchain-based media to Web3 for emerging markets and beyond

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Media Release by Mastercard

Seven startups from around the world seek to champion innovation through the Mastercard Start Path program 

There is no single vision for the crypto economy other than anyone who uses crypto should be able to do so simply and safely. For Mastercard, it’s about offering choice in how people pay, spend and buy crypto. Our role is to provide a best-in-class user experience and scale to offer this choice. NFTs, blockchain gaming and metaverse experiences could transform how consumers shop and communicate, however we need to collaborate and bring together tech, banking, fintech and crypto to unlock this potential.

A shared vision for innovation and collaboration

We’ve always taken a collaborative approach to co-innovation with fintechs. We build with an API and developer-first mindset to make it easy for fintech creators to co-innovate and unleash the vast utility and scale of our network to quickly power new and relevant solutions. With more than 90 million acceptance locations worldwide, our experience securing multiple payment rails instills trust and enables crypto companies to operate safely in the market. We provide an express lane for Web3 and crypto startups to grow and an ecosystem for them to thrive.

Through the Mastercard Start Path global startup engagement program, we work with digital asset, blockchain and cryptocurrency-based companies that share a vision to make blockchain technology and digital assets more accessible. These companies are making strides to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 and meet consumers where they are today. We’re welcoming a new cohort of startups to ease access to digital assets, build communities for creators and empower people to innovate for the future through Web3 technologies. These companies will join the more than 350 companies from 40 countries that have participated in Start Path since 2014.

Powering the future of crypto 

The following startups are joining Start Path to harness innovation in a way that powers economies and empowers people: 

  • Digital Treasures Center (DTC) [Singapore] empowers merchants to pay, receive and transfer funds including card, cash and crypto, as well as process major currencies using DTC Pay. 
  • Fasset [Abu Dhabi] is an emerging markets digital asset exchange, pioneering Web3 use cases for the next billion to enhance the way people own, connect and share digital assets. 
  • Loot Bolt [U.S.] empowers organizations to build, grow and scale passionate communities by leveraging a Web3-powered social payments system. 
  • Quadrata [U.S.] uses privacy-preserving and Sybil-resistant technology to bring identity and compliance to public blockchains, while also lowering reputational risk. 
  • Stable® [Colombia] offers global remittances, peer-to-peer payments and card use based on a technology that stabilizes all global currencies, including stablecoins, safely and simply. 
  • TBTM (Take Back the Mic) Studios [Dubai] is building the world’s first blockchain-based media fintech, turning culture into currency by rewarding fans and compensating creators for building communities around great content. 
  • Uptop [U.S.] uses blockchain to create a clutter-free place for brands to control their customer relationships and for shoppers to receive fun, personalized rewards. 

Scaling for impact 

The newest Start Path cohort will engage in growth-essential opportunities including technology collaboration, mentorship, access to channels and customers, and the opportunity to accelerate their digital asset innovations and expand into new markets.  

Fintechs play a major role in digital transformation by bringing fresh ideas, customization and greater choice for consumers and businesses. We believe collaboration across the crypto ecosystem is essential to delivering the right solutions at the right time. From our experience innovating payments and building a global network, we believe it’s more likely that we’ll see a hybrid economy that combines the benefits of Web3 technology with existing financial infrastructure. And why shouldn’t everyone have the opportunity to come along for the Web3 ride? 

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OzGrav makes waves with $35m to understand the universe

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Media Release by Swinburne University of Technology

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Swinburne has been awarded a further $35 million in funding to continue their ground-breaking discoveries at the cutting edge of human understanding.

The new funding will support OzGrav’s work investigating the fundamental nature of relativistic gravity, ultra-dense matter and the universe, generating critical discoveries to cement Australia’s leadership role in the growing field of gravitational wave science.

Centre Director Professor Matthew Bailes says the funding will not only allow OzGrav make to landmark discoveries about the nature of our universe, but also lay the foundations for the Australian mega-science instruments that could transform physics in the 2030s and 2040s.

“When OzGrav launched in 2017, we contributed to the birth of a new era of astrophysics. This reinvestment will put us at the forefront of transformational scientific discoveries well into the next decade,” Professor Bailes says.

“The opportunity to attract and work with the talented young scientists and engineers this Centre will attract is incredibly energising.

“By improving our advanced gravitational wave detectors, we will be able to understand more about our universe, probing neutron stars and black holes and mapping the cosmic evolution of the universe.”

Turning Einstein’s imagination into reality

Gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 in his theory of general relativity, went undetected for one hundred years before scientific advancements enabled their detection for the first time in 2015.

Since then, OzGrav researchers have been at the forefront of gravitational wave discovery, making significant discoveries to help understand the extreme physics of black holes and warped spacetime.

“As a technology-focused university with deep expertise in astronomy, physics and space research, Swinburne is proud to continue to be the home of this global collaboration,” says Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research Professor Karen Hapgood.

“Under the directorship of Professor Matthew Bailes, OzGrav has made a number of field-defining contributions to our understanding of the universe.

“By building closer relationships with industry and through our leading space education programs, we look forward to expanding this impact and inspiring the next generation of graduates in Australia’s high-tech workforce.”

Next-generation discoveries

The new funding from the Australian Research Council will enable OzGrav to maximise the sensitivity and yield of gravitational wave detectors, supressing quantum noise and reducing coating losses. This is expected to increase detection rates by over an order of magnitude. This will enable:

  • The discovery of new sources of gravitational waves and extreme electromagnetic events
  • Testing the boundaries or Einstein’s theory of general relativity in the strongest gravitational fields in the universe, using black holes and pulsars
  • Understanding ultra-dense matter through the observation of neutron stars and their mergers
  • Mapping the cosmic evolution of the universe using gravitational waves and fast radio bursts

OzGrav is also committed to strengthening equity and diversity in this sector and increasing participation and career options for under-represented groups in STEM. Through schools outreach, the Centre also aims to inspire the next generation to pursue a career in STEM, especially at an age when many young women and under-represented groups choose to not take STEM subjects.

Headquartered at Swinburne University of Technology, OzGrav is a collaboration between a number of Australian universities, including the University of Queensland, The Australian National University, The University of Sydney, Monash University, The University of Adelaide, The University of Western Australia and The University of Melbourne, and CSIRO.

Other international partners include the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in the United States, as well as institutions in the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and the UK.

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AMD unveiled new gaming graphics cards built on AMD RDNA 3 Architecture with chiplet design

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AMD announced the new AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics cards built on the new RDNA™ 3 architecture.

AMD said the new graphics cards are the world’s first gaming graphics cards that incorporate an innovative AMD chiplet design, following on from AMD Ryzen™ chiplet processors. They provide excellent performance and exceptional energy efficiency to power high-framerate 4K and higher resolution gaming in the most demanding titles.

AMD RDNA 3 architecture’s chiplet design incorporates 5nm and 6nm process nodes, each optimised for certain jobs. The groundbreaking architecture outperforms AMD RDNA 2 architecture by up to 54 per cent in terms of performance per watt. It includes the world’s fastest interconnect, capable of joining the graphics and memory system chiplets at up to 5.3 TB/s. It also has up to 96 new unified compute units, second-generation AMD Infinity Cache™ technology, and up to 24 GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory with a memory interface of up to 384 bits. It also incorporates enhanced AI throughput for up to 2.7X better AI performance and second-generation raytracing technology for up to 1.8X better raytracing performance than AMD RDNA 2 architecture.

The new features and advances give up to a 1.7X performance boost in some titles at 4K. The new graphics cards also enable DisplayPort™ 2.1 monitors, which can deliver ultra-high framerates and spectacular visuals at refresh rates of up to 4K 480Hz and 8K 165Hz.

“These new graphics cards are designed by gamers for gamers. As we were developing the new cards, we not only incorporated feedback from our customers, but we built in the features and capabilities we wanted to use. We also realized that we needed to do something different to continue pushing the envelope of the technology, and I’m proud of what the team has accomplished with AMD RDNA 3 and the Radeon RX 7900 Series graphics cards. I can’t wait for gamers to experience the powerhouse performance, incredibly vivid visuals and amazing new features these new graphics cards offer,” Scott Herkelman, senior vice president & general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD, said.

Radeon RX 7900 Series Graphics Cards

According to AMD, Radeon RX 7900 Series gaming graphics cards unleash new levels of performance and efficiency while delivering a slew of new and improved features that enhance the gaming experience. In select titles, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card outperforms the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card by up to 1.7X, while the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card outperforms the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card by up to 1.5X. Key characteristics include:

  • AMD RDNA 3 Architecture — AMD RDNA 3 architecture, which includes an enhanced chiplet design, new computing units, and second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology, gives up to 54 per cent more performance per watt compared to the previous-generation AMD RDNA 2 architecture. The new compute units distribute resources among rendering, AI, and raytracing to make the best use of each transistor for quicker, more efficient performance than the previous generation.
  • Chiplet Design — The world’s first gaming GPU with a chiplet design achieves up to 15 per cent higher frequencies while saving up to 54 per cent power. It incorporates a new 5nm 306mm squared Graphics Compute Die (GCD) with up to 96 compute units for fundamental GPU capabilities. It also incorporates six new 6nm Memory Cache Die (MCD) at 37.5mm squared, each with up to 16MB of AMD Infinity Cache technology from the second generation.
  • Ultra-Fast Chiplet Interconnect — The new chiplets employ AMD Infinity Links and high-performance fanout packaging to give up to 5.3TB/s of bandwidth, using the benefits of second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology.
  • Expanded Memory and Wider Memory Bus — The new graphics cards have up to 24GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory running at 20Gbps over a 384-bit memory bus to satisfy the requirements of today’s demanding titles.
  • Dedicated AI Acceleration and Second-Generation Raytracing — Compared to AMD RDNA 2 architecture, new AI instructions and higher AI throughput can produce up to 2.7X greater performance. In contrast, second-generation raytracing technology can produce up to 1.8X more performance.
  • DisplayPort™ 2.1 Support — Providing up to 54Gbps of display link bandwidth and supporting high-refresh 4K or 8K gaming on next-generation displays, these high-end gaming graphics cards are the only ones in the industry to enable DisplayPort 2.1 technology.
  • New AMD Radiance Display™ Engine — Contrary to AMD RDNA 2 architecture, it offers higher refresh rate displays, 12-bit-per-channel colour, and support for DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1a.
  • High-Refresh Gaming — Unlike DisplayPort 1.4, DisplayPort 2.1 has more display bandwidth and can handle refresh rates of up to 900Hz, 480Hz, and 165Hz for 1440p, 4K, and 8K displays, respectively.
  • Dual Media Engine — Delivers up to 1.8X higher engine frequency than AMD RDNA 2 architecture and enables AV1 encoding. Supports simultaneous encode or decode streams up to 8K60 for HEVC.

AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2.2 and AMD Software: Adrenaline Edition™ Technology

AMD is also launching new updates to its software package to support the new graphics cards, including:

  • AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution (FSR) — FSR 2.2 is the latest FSR temporal upscaling technology version. It is anticipated to be available in the first title, Forza Horizon 5, on 8 November 2022. GPUOpen.com will make it available to game developers.
  • AMD FSR 3 — AMD intends to offer a new version of AMD FSR incorporating AMD Fluid Motion Frames technology in 2023, estimated to give up to 2X higher FPS in certain titles than AMD FSR 2.
  • AMD HYPR-RX — A one-click preset that allows various AMD Software features, such as AMD Radeon Anti-Lag, AMD Radeon Boost, and AMD Radeon Super Resolution technologies, to collaborate at the same time, lessening latency and delivering up to 85 per cent higher FPS in Dying Light 2 Stay Human with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card and AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ 22.40.00.24, than stock settings.
  • New AMD RDNA 3 Media Engine — AV1 hardware encoding enables up to 7X quicker video encoding at 8K compared to a software-only solution, and Xilinx Content Adaptive Machine Learning technology is included to improve text quality for lower resolution and bitrate streams.
  • Improved Video Recording and Streaming — AMD worked with OBS to improve the video streaming quality on AMD Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 Series graphics cards. Furthermore, the AMD RDNA 3 Media Engine features AV1 hardware encoding to further improve and convert live broadcasting.
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Accenture Named a Leader in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® for System Integration Capabilities on Amazon Web Services

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Media Release by Accenture

Accenture has been named a Leader in the 2022 Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for System Integration (SI) Capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
 
For the second time, Accenture scored the highest ahead of all competitors in both Market Impact and Vision & Capability. Additionally, this year Accenture was named a Star Performer – a title given to providers that demonstrate the most improvement over time on the PEAK Matrix – indicating that Accenture’s leading position in the market has strengthened.

The report details Accenture’s significant year-over-year growth in AWS cloud services revenue and large-scale engagements with end-to-end support for AWS. It further highlights Accenture’s strong investments in strengthening its strategic partnership with AWS, and the company’s focus on offering contextualized and verticalized cloud solutions on AWS. The report also notes that Accenture can help enterprises realize greater value from cloud adoption through its Cloud First operating model.
 
“With its market leading AWS-specific business unit, the Accenture AWS Business Group, and investments in joint go-to-market and co-innovation initiatives, Accenture has built a robust AWS services portfolio. It is perceived as a credible partner for cloud consulting and transformation engagements with strong AWS + Pan-Amazon capabilities. Enterprise clients have appreciated the technical skillset of its talent and transformational experience for complex workloads. These factors have contributed to its positioning as a Leader on Everest Group’s System Integration Capabilities on AWS PEAK Matrix Assessment 2022,” said Mukesh Ranjan, vice president, Everest Group.
 
“Everest Group’s recognition reflects the success of our Cloud First investments and 14-year collaboration with AWS to deliver the breadth, depth and scale of our shared capabilities, experience, and innovation necessary to help clients realize value faster,” said Andy Tay, global lead, Accenture AWS Business Group. “Our clients have constrained timelines and are turning to our leading AWS capabilities and repeatable solutions to operate swiftly and with intelligence. We are focused on helping them navigate a new sense of urgency to optimize cost and risk on one hand, and modernize, digitize and innovate at scale on the other.”
 
For this report, Everest Group assessed end-to-end AWS capabilities of 29 IT service providers, including consulting, infrastructure/design build, modernization and operations services.
 
“AWS, with its accelerated investments across infrastructure, platform, data, and next-generation services portfolio segments, continues to be the dominate player in the public cloud market. Enterprises are preferring a strategic partner with strong system integration capabilities as they look to derive maximum value from their public cloud investments. System Integrators (SIs) are strengthening AWS-specific delivery capabilities with both organic and inorganic investments in verticalized cloud solutions and AWS-focused IPs and assets, augmented by increased focus on accreditations and co-innovation initiatives,” added Ranjan.

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AI Decoded: New online course seeks to demystify Artificial Intelligence for all

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Media Release by UNESCO

Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming an essential part of how we work, live and interact with one another, yet many people lack basic knowledge of what AI is, and the impact it might have. Destination AI, a new open online course produced by Institut Montaigne in collaboration with UNESCO, OpenClassrooms and Fondation Abeona, seeks to close this knowledge gap, offering an inventive and informative approach to learning about what makes AI tick.

Today, over 50% of organizations worldwide report using some form of AI in their operations, but many people still lack foundational knowledge concerning what AI is, or its potential risks, benefits, and impacts. Moreover, women and girls are 25% less likely than men to know how to leverage digital technology for basic purposes, pointing to a further critical gender divide in the future of AI skill development. If left unchecked, these knowledge gaps may prove detrimental not only to the future of mental health and work in the digital age but may also prevent the next generation from adequately leveraging the opportunities AI presents.

A new open online course, Destination AI, in collaboration with UNESCO, Institut Montaigne, OpenClassrooms and Fondation Abeona seeks to close these gaps in the form of an open and accessible online course. We sat down with some of the minds behind the development of Destination AI to learn more about its goals, challenges, and potential impact. Democratizing knowledge about the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence can be challenging, especially when directed towards young audiences.

“Young people understand technology because they play on their phones, but they might not know the implications of it in terms of privacy or in terms of the risks they’re taking. Young people are even more exposed, because they use AI in ways that are more diverse: if they don’t know what they’re doing, they’ll be exposed to higher risk,” Tanya PerelmuterAbeona Foundation.

“It’s very important to understand and identify [AI] use cases, and to explain how AI mechanisms work in a very broad sense: how they’re operating and how we control the way in which we interact with them,” Milo RignellHead of the Digital Program at Institut Montaigne.

One concrete example is identifying the use of AI in a news feed, for instance, with respect to the way content is pushed towards us: knowing that certain algorithms can lead to things like deepfakes or understanding the way in which objectives are set for AI algorithms, which push you towards certain types of content. If you want to contribute to developing useful AI based solutions in a whole list of domains linked to environmental change, health, or education for instance, it’s important that people understand the basics of how technology works, and how we interact with [AI] tools in different sectors.

What is Destination AI?

Destination AI has been designed with precisely this risk-benefit and case-based approach in mind, running across 12 modules which address aspects such as AI’s risks, benefits, and societal impact, as well as the steps involved in an AI-based projects and the fundamentals of machine learning.

“We start by demystifying AI, by saying what it’s not. This is important: if you stop somebody on the street and ask them what AI is, you’re going to get very different definitions. You have to start by dispelling the myth,” Tanya Perelmuter

“The second part gives a flavor of AI’s potential, addressing very concrete risks that people encounter in everyday life, as well as the fear that AI systems will come to replace their jobs. It’s very important to define AI not only as a technical abstraction,” Milo Rignell

The final part of the course delves into the technical detail and practical implementation of an AI project: if participants want to make AI part of their life goals and career, this will help them know where to turn for their education.

To date, Destination AI has educated over 250,000 online participants from various disciplines, sectors, and age groups around the world. One participant, Zachary Pascaud, hailed the course as being “exceptionally clear and well designed”, and had given him a comprehensive view of AI from the perspective of different stakeholders.

“When it comes to explaining AI, it’s easy to get lost in the sauce. [The course] taught me how to explain things that aren’t easy to explain,” Zachary PascaudParticipant in the course

Destination AI is currently available in English and French and can be taken free of charge online. The course typically requires less than 6 hours from start to finish and no prerequisites are needed.

In the future, the team has set their sights on broad dissemination: the key objective is AI literacy. The goal is to reach as many people as possible with a basic understanding of AI, where other, more specialized institutions can complement this education. The creators of the course hope that young girls and women will be able to follow it, and that is one way of addressing a particular bias. The more they are aware of how AI is used, the fairer AI will become.

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