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
October 21, 2025 by
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
October 21, 2025 by
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
October 17, 2025 by
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.
Arm and Meta Announce Extension of AI Partnership
October 15, 2025 by
Arm and Meta announced the extension of their partnership to scale AI across multiple layers of compute – spanning AI software and data center infrastructure. The multi-year partnership builds on the ongoing hardware and software co-design efforts between the two companies, combining Arm AI chips with Meta’s AI-driven products, infrastructure, and open technologies. “From milliwatt-scale […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
October 14, 2025 by
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 ….
@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
October 13, 2025 by
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest ….
HPC News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52, SC25 Coming Up
October 13, 2025 by
A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….
Azure Unveils NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Supercomputing Cluster for OpenAI
October 10, 2025 by
Microsoft Azure announced the NDv6 GB300 VM series, which the company said is the first supercomputing-scale production cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, built for OpenAI ….
Petrobras Puts Lenovo ‘Harpia’ HPC into Operation
October 10, 2025 by
Brazillian petroleum corporation Petrobras has put the Lenovo”Harpia” supercomputer into operation. The machine, to be used for seismic imaging, is the largest of the five Lenovo HPC systems Petrobas has ….
