Good mid-May day to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a brief (9:10) rundown of recent goings on, including: A look at SMIC ….
HPC News Bytes 20250512: China’s SMIC Foundry, Cisco and ‘Quantum Beowulf,’ HPSF Open Source HPC Stack, U.S. Science Brain Drain
HPC News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
Good April morning to you! It’s been an active week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:43) rundown of recent industry news: Nvidia, AMD and China export ….
Cadence Announces DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 Memory IP System for Cloud AI
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first DDR5 12.8Gbps MRDIMM Gen2 memory IP system solution on the TSMC N3 process. The new solution addresses the need for greater memory bandwidth to accommodate AI processing demands in enterprise and data center applications, including AI in the cloud. The […]
Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the HPC-AI Data Center Energy Gap
Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering ….
TSMC Reports Q1 YoY Revenue Growth of 42%
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Apr. 17, 2025 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$839.25 billion, net income of NT$361.56 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$13.94 (US$2.12 per ADR unit) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. Year-over-year, first quarter revenue increased 41.6%, while net income and diluted EPS […]
Hammerspace Raises $100M
AI data platform company Hammerspace announced that several venture investors have invested $100 million in growth capital in the company. Altimeter Capital, which inveted in Meta, MongoDB, NVIDIA, Snowflake and Uber, led the Series B round.
HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode
A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news ….
Intel Selling 51% of Altera FPGA Business for $4.3B
Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a technology investing firm. The transaction, which values Altera at $8.75 billion, establishes Altera’s operational independence ….
Keysource and ADCC are now officially part of the Salute brand following completed acquisition
NEW YORK and LONDON – April 10, 2025 – Salute, a lifecycle data center services company, will acquire Keysource Group, a European provider of data center and critical environment solutions, and Advanced Data Center Consulting Group (ADCC), a provider of AI-focused training and consulting. Salute said the acquisitions deepen their regional and technical capabilities. With […]
DDN Collaborating with Google Cloud on AI
LAS VEGAS, May 9, 2025 — Today at Google Cloud Next 2025, AI and data intelligence solutions vendor DDN announced it is working with Google Cloud on AI-powered infrastructure with Google Cloud Managed Lustre based on DDN’s EXASCaler. Accessible on Google Cloud, this solution features a persistent parallel file system, delivering speed, scalability, and efficiency […]