London, 04 April, 2024: Liquid cooling technology company Iceotope Technologies announced that Christian Belady has been named senior advisor to the company. Iceotope said Belady is an established data center executive known for his innovative approaches to infrastructure and quantitative benchmarking. The appointment coincides with increasing global demand for Iceotope solutions and an ambitious global […]
Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor
April 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform
April 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, Calif.– SiMa.ai, the software-centric, embedded edge machine learning system-on-chip company, today announced it has raised an additional $70M of funding led by Maverick Capital, with participation from Point72 and Jericho, as well as existing investors Amplify Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Lip-Bu Tan and others. SiMa.ai will utilize the $270M raised to date to […]
SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue
April 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products. The project, which the company said is the first of its kind in the U.S., will be an advanced….
Hailo Closes $120M Funding Round and Debuts Hailo-10 Chip for Edge AI
April 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 2, 2024 — Edge AI chip maker Hailo announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million and also announced the introduction of its Hailo-10 high-performance generative AI (GenAI) accelerators that usher in an era where users can own and run GenAI applications locally […]
Reports: TSMC Advanced Chip Fab Back on Schedule in Arizona; Dutch Government Announces Support for ASML
April 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A news report from a Chinese news outlet states that chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have overcome earlier problems at its Arizona advanced-chip fabs….
HPC News Bytes 20240401: A $100B AI Data Center, Eviden Says It’s Healthy, Alibaba’s RISC-V Chip, New Optical Interconnect Group, Nvidia Fights CUDA Translation
April 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Happy April Fool’s Day! It was as always an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, this edition of HPC News Bytes includes commentary on: Microsoft and….
Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding round led by Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In addition to USIT, the round included participation from new and existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, […]
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Issues Letter of Farewell as Director of DOE Office of Science
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Following the news last week of her departure as director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science since May 2022, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has issued a letter of farewell to her agency and White House colleagues. Dr. Berhe is currently on leave from the….
Lightning AI Announces Availability Compiler for PyTorch
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
New York – March 28, 2024 – Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. […]
Advania Expands into Second atNorth Data Center in Iceland
March 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Reykjavík, Iceland– March 26th, 2024 – HPC and AI colocation atNorth announced an expansion of its partnership with Nordic IT services corporation, Advania, providing additional capacity at its state of the art ICE03 site in Iceland which opened last year. Advania is a long-standing customer of atNorth at its ICE01 site in Reykjavík in addition to some of atNorth’s other […]
