IDC: Worldwide Server Market Grew 61% YoY in Q3

NEEDHAM, Mass., December 11, 2025 – According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, the server market reached a record $112.4 billion dollars in revenue during the third quarter of the year. This represents a year-over-year quarterly increase of 61 percent in vendor revenue. Revenue generated from x86 servers increased 32.8 percent in 2025Q3 […]

HPC News Bytes 20251201: Hot Chip Startups, TPUs vs NVIDIA, Neoclouds as New Customer Class, DOE’s Genesis Mission

A good, frosty December day to you! The short holiday week last week produced interesting developments in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (8:31) run-through of recent news, including ….

HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System

HOUSTON –  FEBRUARY 13, 2025  – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. […]

@HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing

We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the impact of hyperscalers on AI ….

@HPCpodcast Industry View: Penguin Solutions on Big HPC-AI Deployment Challenges and How to Overcome Them

In this “Industry View” episode of the @HPCpodcast, special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC-class AI systems in a managed services model. We examine ….

HPC News Bytes 20241209: Gelsinger’s Intel Exit, Marvell’s Rising Star, Quantum in China

A happy December 9 to you! Here’s a quick (7:23) review of news from the world of HPC-AI: Potential whys and wherefores of Pat Gelsinger exit from Intel, Marvell-AWS custom AI chip alliance, China comes out of the shadows ….

QCT Releases New Platform Powered by NVIDIA GPUs for GenAI at Scale

 QCT, the global data center solution provider with an expanding presence in the world of HPC-AI servers, is releasing a new hardware platform powered by NVIDIA GPUs and enhanced by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

Lenovo Launches ‘100%’ Liquid Cooled Platforms with Nvidia for GenAI

Lenovo called the 6th generation ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune a “vertical liquid cooling breakthrough” that supports accelerated computing while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent… Lenovo, of course, has long been active in liquid cooling ….

AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI

Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said it is speeding up its product release cadence, a move clearly aimed at ….

@HPCpodcast Industry View: HPC-AI Memory-Centric Trends with Lenovo Distinguished Engineer Patrick Caporale

The @HPCpodcast “Industry View” feature delves into major issues ….