COLLEGE PARK, Md. and BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – January 26, 2026 – IonQ and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), a U.S.-based semiconductor foundry, today announced IonQ will acquire SkyWater for $35 per share in a cash-and-stock transaction, subject to a collar, implying a total equity value of approximately $1.8 billion. “This transformational acquisition enables IonQ to materially accelerate its […]
Quantum: Qunova’s HI-VQE Algorithm Available on AWS Marketplace
January 26, 2026 by
DAEJEON, South Korea (January 26, 2026) – Qunova Computing, a developer of software applications designed with the goal of bringing quantum advantage to the chemical, pharmaceutical and industrial engineering sectors, today announces its HI-VQE algorithm is now available on AWS Marketplace. This distribution channel expands HI-VQE’s reach to thousands of potential users, and provides convenient […]
HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region
January 26, 2026 by
Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here’s a ….
@HPCpodcast: DDN’s Paul Bloch on High Performance Storage Strategies for AI Data Centers
January 23, 2026 by
Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to ….
Quantum: Rigetti Lands $8.4M Order from India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
January 21, 2026 by
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 — Rigetti Computing India P L, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc., announced it has received an $8.4 million order to deliver a 108-qubit quantum computer to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an Indian R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The […]
Report: Data Center Liquid Cooling Market to Grow at 52% CAGR
January 20, 2026 by
The Data Center Liquid Cooling Market was valued at USD 870 Million in 2024, and is projected to reach USD 10.70 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of 51.93%. Liquid cooling solutions are ….
D-Wave Completes Acquisition of Quantum Circuits
January 20, 2026 by
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., a developer of error-corrected superconducting gate-model quantum computing systems. D-Wave said it expects the acquisition to accelerate the time to a scaled, error-corrected gate-model quantum computer alongside and complementary to its commercial annealing […]
VDURA Introduces Flash Volatility Index and Storage Economics Tool
January 20, 2026 by
Milpitas, CA, Jan. 20, 2026, VDURA today announced the release of the Flash Volatility Index and Storage Economics Optimizer Tool, an updated quarterly resource designed to help enterprises, infrastructure operators, and partners quantify flash pricing risk and evaluate storage architecture economics under changing market conditions. Enterprise flash pricing has entered a period of sustained volatility driven by hyperscaler […]
HPC News Bytes 20260119: Cerebras Breakout, Taiwan’s Chips-Tariff Deal, Apple-Intel Foundry Reunion, Hit Google AI Documentary
January 19, 2026 by
Good Martin Luther King Day (US) to you! Chips in their many forms and the manufacturing of them dominated the HPC-AI industry ….
What I Saw at the Revolution
January 15, 2026 by
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. Looking ….
