The electronics industry operates in a highly competitive landscape, where companies are constantly striving to launch products faster while meeting evolving consumer demands. However, this quest for speed and innovation comes with challenges. Electronics engineers often encounter complex designs, tight schedules….
Kao Data Partners with Zayo to Expand Lit and Dark Fibre Connectivity Options
June 26, 2023 by
London, June 26th 2023 – Kao Data, developer and operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has announced it has signed a partnership with Zayo, a global communications infrastructure provider, to expand the connectivity solutions at its data center campus in Harlow, UK. The partnership will see Zayo deploy two new […]
Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option
June 23, 2023 by
By Jeff Whitaker, VP Product Strategy and Marketing, Panasas The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT. This growth is not surprising given how […]
IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center
June 22, 2023 by
COLLEGE PARK, MD – June 22, 2023 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced a partnership with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. The companies said the transaction is expected to bring two systems, one that will be capable of #AQ 35 followed by another system capable of #AQ […]
Lenovo Reports AI Infrastructure Revenue Exceeded $2B
June 14, 2023 by
June 14, 2023 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced it has reached record annual AI infrastructure revenue of over US$2 billion and unveiled the next phase of its growth strategy, with an additional US$1 billion investment over three years to accelerate AI deployment for businesses. Fueled by increased global […]
AMD Announces Data Center EPYCs, Releases Instinct Accelerator Details and Software for Generative AI
June 13, 2023 by
At a product unveiling event this morning in San Francisco, AMD announced updates to its 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” 5nm data center CPUs and released additional details on its MI300X GPU accelerator for generative AI. The event included keyote remarks from AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su, who said AI represents the most significant strategic opportunity for the company, a market AMD expects to grow from $30 billion this year to $150 billion by 2027, a CAGR of 50 percent. Notwithstanding the extensive comments from Su and several of her senior managers this morning about the exploding AI market, they mention GPU market dominator NVIDIA. Though it was obvious by implication that AMD is mounting a major effort to grab GPU market share. On the CPU side, AMD Introduced 4th Gen AMD EPYC 97X4 processors, codenamed “Bergamo,” with 128 Zen 4c cores per socket. AMD said the chips offer the greatest vCPU density and performance for cloud applications, provide up to 2.7x better energy efficiency and support up to 3x more containers per server. In her keynote, Su said Bergamo is the company’s first chip designed specfically for cloud applications.
atNorth Opens Sixth Nordic Data Center
June 12, 2023 by
Reykjavík, Iceland – June 9th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced that their third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now fully operational with an initial capacity of 10 MW, following an 11-month build. This brings their total number of operational data centers to six, with one additional site, […]
Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage Tops IO500 Rankings
June 9, 2023 by
The release of the latest IO500 ranking, the world’s most authoritative storage performance metric, revealed that the Cheeloo-1 system led the way in the 10-node rankings, thanks to the system’s use of Huawei OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage capabilities. The IO500 ranking evaluates….
Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
June 5, 2023 by
According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term of five years maturing in June 2028. According to the story by Greg Rosenvinge of Alliance News, this includes […]
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
June 1, 2023 by
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]
