Intel and AMD have launched an x86 ecosystem advisory group that the companies say will bring together technology leaders to shape the future of the x86 architecture. They want to show that x86 is able to meet the needs of the market better than other architectures through performance and interoperability across hardware and software.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. will be bringing a RISC-V based wearable platform to Wear OS by Google. The framework is expected to expand the products compatible within the environment. The platform will leverage low-power high-performance custom computers.  

Welcome to the second installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, where we take a closer look at the lives of unsung heroes in the world of engineering whose work impacts uncountable lives across the globe.  See the bottom of the article for additional content on Nandini Kappiah and our other heroes.

Watch Nandini discuss her role in an Android-based earthquake early warning system here.

In the second installment of our Engineering Heroes series, sponsored by Wind River, we honor Nandini Kappiah, a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Google.

After the success of Google’s first-generation scalable distributed training and inference system, DistBelief, the Google Brain team, in collaboration with Alphabet, built the second-generation system for the implementation and deployment of large-scale machine learning models, TensorFlow.

After the success of Google’s first-generation scalable distributed training and inference system, DistBelief, the Google Brain team, in collaboration with Alphabet, built TensorFlow, the second-generation system for the implementation and deployment of large-scale machine learning models.