Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture
The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to form a joint venture in which TSMC would operate Intel’s chipmaking facilities. As part of the agreement, TSMC, the world’s biggest chip manufacturer that recently celebrated the expansion of its most advanced, 2nm process […]
Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling
Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips. The company is working to develop the new technology to regulate the temperature of chips, while aiming to lower the power ….
DARPA Taps Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform
AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining their wafer scale technology with wafer scale co-packaged optics of Ottawa-based Ranovus to deliver ….
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. The rorganization said the esults highlight that the AI community is focusing on generative AI ….
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HPC News Bytes 033125: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler
Happy April Fool’s Day Eve to you! Here’s a quick (8:42) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000-GPU Oracle cluster, in the face of U.S. trade policy, ASML to open repair hub in China, EuroHPC-JU’s ….
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HPC News Bytes 20250324: Quantum Day at GTC, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Blockchain?, HDD Storage
A happy late March morning to you! Shahin Khan takes charge of this edition of HPC News Bytes, a rapid (8:43) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, of which there has been a lot of late, including: Quantum Day at GTC 2025 ….
@HPCpodcast: Live from GTC 2025, Among the Crowds for the New AI Compute Landscape
In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present “Live from Nvidia GTC 2025,” covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme. We review the conference, discussing everything from ….
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The Power of Now: Accelerate the Datacenter
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Intersect360 Research White Paper: STAY COOL: DDC EASES THE RISK IN EMBRACING THE AI FUTURE
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@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency with DDC Solutions
Chris Orlando of DDC discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety ….
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Last week, we announced that insideHPC’s sister publication, insideBIGDATA, has been relaunched and rebranded as insideAI News, reflecting the evolution of data analytics and data science into the broad-based application of artificial intelligence.
Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
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‘It’s Vertical’: Lenovo’s New Rack Server Chassis Turns HPC-AI Liquid Cooling on its Edge
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Optical I/O: The Key to Unlocking AI Infrastructure, Profitability and Performance
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