HPC News Bytes 20240701: Silicon Photonics Advance, CPU Thread Count War, Quantum Memory Advantage, Microsoft’s Undersea Data Center

A happy Fourth of July week to you! Here we offer a quick (5:56) run through recent HPC-AI news, including:

– Intel’s “important milestone” in silicon photonics

– Thread count war: Intel’s current 144-core and soon-to-be 288-core Xeon Sierra Forrest CPU

– Quantum vs. classical HPC: time vs. space

– Microsoft curtails undersea data center project

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