TSMC announced it has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce for up to $6.6 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act. TSMC also announced plans to build a third fab at its TSMC Arizona site in Phoenix using 2nm or more processes….
TSMC in the USA: Up to $6.6B in CHIPS Act Funding for 3rd (2nm or More) Arizona Fab
HPC News Bytes 20240408: Chips Ahoy! …and Quantum Error Rate Progress
A good April morning to you! Chips dominate the HPC-AI news landscape, which has become something of an industry commonplace of late, including: TSMC’s Arizona fab on schedule, the Dutch government makes a pitch to ASML, Intel foundry business’s losses, TSMC expands CoWoS capacity, SK hynix to investing in Indiana and Purdue, Quantinuum and Microsoft report 14,000 error-free instances
Quantum Corp. Announces ActiveScale All-Flash Object Storage for AI, Data Lakes and Storage Clouds
SAN JOSE, April 2, 2024 — Data management and storage company Quantum Corporation today announces ActiveScale Z200 all-flash object storage, designed to help customers accelerate mission-critical AI pipelines and massive data workflows. This new solution extends Quantum’s all-flash leadership beyond Quantum Myriad and StorNext file system solutions to address S3-native use cases that require rapid […]
Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine Adopt Generative AI for Patient Diagnosis
ROUND ROCK – April 5, 2024 — Dell Technologies and Northwestern Medicine are using AI to innovate and strengthen patient care to deliver advancements in medicine, including the development and evaluation of a generative multimodal large language model (LLM) for the interpretation of chest x-rays. Northwestern Medicine’s goal was to use AI to enhance patient […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Unveils IBM Quantum System One
TROY, NY, April 5, 2024 — Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM unveiled the first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI’s bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, the university said IBM Quantum System One will enhance educational and research opportunities for itself and other academic institutions and organizations across […]
Quantinuum and Microsoft Report 800x Lower Quantum Error Rate
Quantinuum and Microsoft report they have achieved a breakthrough in fault tolerant quantum computing “by demonstrating the most reliable logical qubits with active syndrome extraction, an achievement previously believed to be years away from realization,” the companies said.
Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 — Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launch of joint research for drug development by applying quantum computing to pharmacology. The collaboration is under the auspices of Classiq’s Quantum Computing For Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, launched with NVIDIA […]
RAVEL Announces Orchestrate GenAI Software and Support for AMD GPU Accelerators
Seattle – April 4, 2024 – RAVEL Inc (formerly StratusCore) today announced the release of RAVEL Orchestrate GenAI, built to provide IT and DevOps administrators with a single-screen interface for managing the assembly and deployment of complex content creation and generative AI environments across teams and pipelines, whether local or remote. RAVEL is also working […]
Former Microsoft Data Center Executive Joins Iceotope as Senior Advisor
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 […]
SiMa.ai Raises $70M for Generative Edge AI Platform
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 […]