Nvidia claims to have the smallest, most powerful AI supercomputer for robotic and embedded computing devices at the edge-- the Jetson Xavier NX, a successor to the Jetson AGX Xavier packed in the form factor of the Jetson Nano.

The Jetson Xavier NX measures 45 x 70mm, making it around the size of a credit card. It is based on the same Xavier SoC as the Jetson AGX Xavier, and and as such has the same Volta GPU and NVDLA accelerator cores. Nvidia says it delivers "server-class" performance of up to 21 TOPS, allowing it to run AI workloads while consuming 15W of power. For lower power consumption it can clock up to 14 TOPS at 10W.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise-owned Aruba Networks claims to bring change to the rules of networking with the CX Switching Portfolio, a switching harware and software portfolio designed to meet modern enterprise needs.

The CX portfolio includes the CX 6300 series fixed configuration and CX 6400 series modular access, aggregation and core switches, as well as advancements in the AOS-CX operating system. A cloud-native platform optimised by the Aruba network Analytics Engine (NAE), AOS-CX promises to simplify management, accelerate the troubleshooting of application performance issues and remediate common network problems.

The PCI-SIG announces the next generation of PCIe technology-- the PCIe 6.0 specification-- is on track for a final 2021 release, following the completion of revision 0.3 of the specification.

The organisation completed the PCIe 5.0 specification just a few months ago, specifically on May 2019. We know little as to how version 6.0 will improve on it, other than the doubling of the data rate to 64 GT/s while maintaining backward compatibility with all previous spec generations. For the curious, the 64 GT/s figure refers to GigaTransfers per second over the interface, and clocks to around 256GB/s of bandwidth (or 128GB/s in each direction).

The global converged systems market sees revenues worth $3.9 billion in Q2 2019, IDC reports, a 10.9% Y-o-Y increase brought about by converged infrastructure solutions evolving to align with the needs of a hybrid cloud world.

"Modern converged solutions are driving growth because they allow organisations to leverage standardized, software-defined, and highly automated datacenter infrastructure that is increasingly the on-premises backbone of a seamless multi-cloud world," the analyst continues.