Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing-optimized instance type powered by the latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, AWS said. These instances are designed for compute-intensive, tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid […]
UK Invests £36M in AMD-Powered Supercomputer at the Univ. of Cambridge
January 28, 2026 by
The UK government announced it has injected £36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres sixfold. This includes backing a new National Computational Resource supercomputer ….
Florida Atlantic Univ. in $20M Deal for D-Wave Advantage2 Quantum Computer
January 27, 2026 by
PALO ALTO, Calif. & Boca Raton, Florida – January 27, 2026 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has signed an agreement to purchase an Advantage2 annealing quantum computer at its Boca Raton campus. The agreement represents a $20 million commitment from FAU, aiming to […]
Quantum: IonQ to Acquire Foundry Company SkyWater in $1.8B Deal
January 26, 2026 by
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 […]
@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 ….
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 […]
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 ….
TSMC Reports December 2025 YoY Revenue Up 20.4%
January 9, 2026 by
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jan. 9, 2026 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue on a consolidated basis for December 2025 was approximately NT$335.00 billion, a decrease of 2.5 percent from November 2025 and an increase of 20.4 percent from December 2024. Revenue for January through December 2025 totaled NT$3,809.05 billion, […]
D-Wave in $550M Acquisition of Quantum Circuits
January 7, 2026 by
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and Quantum Circuits Inc. today announced D-Wave will acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million, consisting of $300 million in D-Wave common stock and $250 million in cash.
HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia’s Photonics Quantum Chip
January 5, 2026 by
A happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here’s a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including ….
