Africa: Mineral Beneficiation – a Pipedream of Prosperity in an Unequal Financial Architecture

Africa: Mineral Beneficiation – a Pipedream of Prosperity in an Unequal Financial Architecture

Since 2023, 14 African countries have introduced export restrictions on unprocessed critical minerals, requiring “local beneficiation” – or in-country processing and manufacturing – prior to export, and demanding technology and financing. Wealthier countries are also supporting the idea of local beneficiation and stepping up investments in resource-rich countries, promising this will help to lift them…

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Africa: Mineral Beneficiation – a Pipedream of Prosperity in an Unequal Financial Architecture

Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act On Them

Kigali, Rwanda — As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR’s Ismahane Elouafi argues that Africa must connect proven agricultural innovation with the finance, partnerships and delivery systems needed to achieve impact at scale. As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, they face an urgent question: why…

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IBM unveils world’s first sub-1nm transistor architecture

IBM unveils world’s first sub-1nm transistor architecture

IBM has announced a major semiconductor breakthrough, unveiling the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology. Nominated as the 0.7nm (7-angstrom) generation, the milestone comes as global technology firms aggressively compete to engineer silicon capable of processing heavy, next-generation AI workloads. Following the announcement, shares of the Armonk, New York-based giant jumped over 6% in pre-market trading,…

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I/ONX Shatters the Host Tax: New Symphony SixtyFour Architecture Delivers 50% TCO Savings Across AI Inference and Fine-Tuning Lifecycle

I/ONX Shatters the Host Tax: New Symphony SixtyFour Architecture Delivers 50% TCO Savings Across AI Inference and Fine-Tuning Lifecycle

I/ONX Introduces Symphony SixtyFour: The Host Tax is Over. Save 30-50% on your AI Infrastructure Costs. I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC), a leading provider of heterogeneous AI systems, today announced the global launch of the Symphony SixtyFour, a high-density platform designed to collapse the physical and economic footprint of AI inference and fine-tuning infrastructure. By…

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The hard parts of AI solution delivery: Security, compliance and architecture

The hard parts of AI solution delivery: Security, compliance and architecture

Jonathan Leibbrandt, Senior Solutions Architect, TrueMark. Artificial intelligence has captured the imagination of businesses worldwide, but building real-world AI applications is far more complex than simply plugging in a model. That’s because the difficult parts of getting it done are unsexy and frequently overlooked. That’s according to Cape Town-based TrueMark Senior Solutions Architect Jonathan Leibbrandt,…

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Cohesity’s groundbreaking Direct I/O architecture transforms the future of data protection

Cohesity’s groundbreaking Direct I/O architecture transforms the future of data protection

Petter Sveum, EMEA CTO, Cohesity. Following the Cohesity acquisition of Veritas Technologies’ enterprise data protection business in 2024, significant enhancements have been made to Veritas NetBackup, which deliver even faster and more resilient backup and recovery in the event of malware attacks or system failures. This is according to Petter Sveum, EMEA CTO at Cohesity,…

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