If it’s not too late to take stock of 2025 in HPC-AI, then holding up the Supercomputing Conference as a trends test site might be a good approach. I’m no perennial* but I’ve been to about half of the 37 SCs , including all 11 since 2015. And looking back at that year’s conference, SC15, […]
Cerebras Scores $10B Deal with OpenAI
January 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plat-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer ….
NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell
January 6, 2026 by
Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]
Siemens and GlobalFoundries to Collaborate on AI-Driven Chip Manufacturing
December 11, 2025 by
Siemens and GlobalFoundries (GF) said today they have entered a collaboration to use their AI capabilities to enhance semiconductor manufacturing and advanced industries . In a memorandum of understanding, the companies say they will focus on automation technologies for semiconductor fabrication, electrification, digital solutions and software ranging from chip development to product lifecycle management. This […]
NVIDIA Introduces CUDA 13.1 with CUDA Tile
December 5, 2025 by
Calling it the largest advancement since the NVIDIA CUDA platform was inroduced in 2006, NVIDIA has launched CUDA 13.1 with CUDA Tile, which the company said introduces a virtual instruction set for tile-based parallel programming focusing on writing algorithms at a higher level and abstract away the details of specialized hardware, such as tensor cores. […]
CIQ Fuzzball Integration with PBS Professional and Slurm
December 4, 2025 by
RENO, Nev., – December 4, 2025 – CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced that Fuzzball, its container orchestration platform, now integrates with PBS Professional and Slurm workload managers as backend provisioners. This integration enables organizations running traditional HPC clusters to adopt Fuzzball’s modern container orchestration and […]
Taking on ASML: U.S. Invests $150M in Gelsinger-Backed EUV Startup
December 3, 2025 by
Those machines have been called the most complex in the world, and no wonder. An EUV machine has more than 100,000 parts, they’re the size of a school bus, cost roughly $350 million and weigh around 200 tons.
NVIDIA Partners With Mistral AI on Open Models
December 2, 2025 by
Mistral AI announced today the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms. Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model — instead of firing up every neuron for every token, it is designed to only activates the parts of the model with the most impact Mistral AI […]
DOE Funds $800M, Selects TVA and Holtec for Deployment of Small Modular Reactors
December 2, 2025 by
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec Government Services to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The project teams will receive up to $800 million in federal cost-shared funding to advance initial projects in Tennessee and […]
DOE Launches HPC-AI-Quantum ‘Genesis Mission’ Research Platform
November 25, 2025 by
The Trump Adminisration today issued an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, described as a Department of Energy-led effort to “transform American science and innovation through the power of AI ….
