A good December day to you! The world of HPC-AI generated a notably colorful array of developments last week, here’s a quick (9:12) run-through of recent news: Marvell in AI with Celestial AI, co-packaged optical I/O, lasers for extreme ultraviolet lithography, SDCS’s HPC-led research for treating Parkinson’s
HPC News Bytes 20251208: Marvell’s Celestial AI-Optical I/O Buy, ASML’s U.S. EUV Laser Competitor, HPC and Parkinson’s Research at SDSC
December 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
IBM in $11B Acquisition of Confluent
December 8, 2025 by Leave a Comment
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Confluent provides an […]
NVIDIA Introduces CUDA 13.1 with CUDA Tile
December 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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. […]
The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories
December 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Organizations risk being held back not by their compute power but by access to the data needed to fuel it. When input/output performance falls short or data orchestration can’t keep GPUs continuously supplied with data ….
Vultr and AMD Expand AI Supercluster Collaboration
December 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
West Palm Beach, FL. – Dec. 4, 2025 – Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its AI workload collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance […]
Red Hat Expands Inference Collaboration with AWS AI chips
December 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Raleigh, N.C. – Red Hat today announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying […]
HPE to Offer AMD Helios AI Rack-Scale Architecture with Ethernet
December 2, 2025 by
At HPE’s Discover Barcelona 2025 event today, the company said it is offering the AMD “Helios”AI rack-scale architecture with Ethernet, intended to speed up deployment of at-scale artificial intelligence training and inferencing for cloud service providers.
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 […]
HPC News Bytes 20251201: Hot Chip Startups, TPUs vs NVIDIA, Neoclouds as New Customer Class, DOE’s Genesis Mission
December 1, 2025 by
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 ….
NVIDIA and Synopsys in $2B Engineering and Design Partnership
December 1, 2025 by
NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced a partnership for design and engineering across industries. As part of the deal, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share. The multiyear partnership adds to technology collaborations between the companies and is intended to: Accelerate Synopsys applications: Using NVIDIA CUDA-X […]
