Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….
HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks
Accelerating Breakthroughs in Higher Education & Research with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ….
Flex to Collaborate with NVIDIA on Giga-Scale AI Factories
WASHINGTON, D.C.— October 28, 2025 – Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced it is supporting the development of modular data center systems with NVIDIA. The collaboration will leverage Flex’s advanced manufacturing capabilities and footprint to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI factories at scale, with an emphasis on meeting growing infrastructure demands in the U.S. “Flex is at […]
HPC News Bytes 20251027: Quantum Advantage and Government Investments, an HPC Systems Startup Delivers Update
Quantum computing has very much been in the news of late, along with an interesting high-precision HPC architecture from an Israeli startup. Here’s a not-so-fast (11:12) run-through of recent ….
Qualcomm Unveils Rack-Scale AI Inference Chips
Qualcomm Technologies today announced the launch of its AI inference solutions for data centers: the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards, and racks. The AI200 and AI250 are expected to be commercially available in 2026 and 2027 ….
Axelera Announces Europa AIPU
Eindhoven, NL – Oct. 21, 2025 – Axelera AI, a provider of AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced Europa, an AI processor unit (AIPU) designed for multi-user generative AI and computer vision applications. The company said Europa’s combination of processing power, energy and thermal efficiency, compact packaging, and multiple form factor options are intended for compute-intensive, multi-modal […]
Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics
AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….
Dollar Coin Celebrates Cray-1 50th Anniversary
The United States Mint has released the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, and one of them honors a monumental moment in the history of HPC: the announcement of the Cray-1 supercomputer.
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….













