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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Forrester IT

According to the International Energy Agency, data transmission networks consumed 260–340 TWh (terawatt-hours) in 2021, or 1.1–1.4% Sustainability efforts in telecommunications have to span efforts in hardware as well as software; they […] of global electricity use.

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A software glitch has left a high school's lights on for over a year

TechSpot

Since August 2021, a Massachusetts high school has been unable to properly control its lights due to a software glitch. The software and hardware controlling what was supposed to be an energy-saving system became almost impossible to fix due to corporate buyouts and Chinese manufacturing shutdowns.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO Business Intelligence

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? For us, the AI hardware needs are in the continuum of what we do every day.

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Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle

The Verge

John Ternus, Apple’s new senior vice president of hardware engineering | Photo: Apple. Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. Photo: Apple.

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Seattle-area IoT software startup Elev?t raises $9.5M for manufacturing machine monitoring tech

GeekWire

million to fuel growth of its IoT software used by industrial manufacturers to monitor and maintain machinery. t initially targeted machine builders and has expanded to industries such as oil and gas, and energy conservation. Its software helps customers assess the condition and performance of manufacturing equipment.

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Charge! WiBotic’s Commander software plots the power plan for fleets of robots

GeekWire

WiBotic’s Commander software package keeps track of the charging status for a fleet of drones spread out over a wide swath of terrain — for example, the surroundings of Ellensburg, Wash. Today the seven-year-old Seattle startup unveiled its first software product, an energy management package called Commander.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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