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 ….
HPC News Bytes 20250421: Chips and Geopolitical Chess, Intel and FPGAs, Cool Storage, 2nm CPUs in Taiwan and Arizona
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 ….
Registration Open for RMACC HPC Symposium, May 20
BOULDER, CO – Registration is continuing from now through May 16th for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 15th annual High Performance Computing Symposium, set for Tuesday-Thursday, May 20-22 at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder. To register or find out more information about the symposium schedule, visit […]
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.
NVIDIA: Grace Blackwell GPUs on CoreWeave
NVIDIA announced that GPU cloud platform CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale, with Cohere, IBM and Mistral AI using them for model training and deployment.
SandboxAQ Using NVIDIA DGX to Build Large Quantitative Models
Palo Alto, CA; April 15, 2025 – SandboxAQ today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA across biopharma, chemicals, advanced materials, financial services, cybersecurity, navigation, and medical imaging. SandboxAQ, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, is leveraging the NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI platform on Google Cloud to build a Large Quantitative Model (LQM) platform, fueling AI-driven scientific discovery. This […]
OmniScale Media and SC Conference Extend Partnership Through 2026
Vancouver, WA—April 16, 2025—OmniScale Media, the strategic communications partner for innovative technology brands, today announced a two-year partnership extension with the SC Conference, the international event for high-performance computing (HPC), networking, storage, and analysis. Fresh off 2024’s record 18,104 attendees—a 30 percent increase over 2023’s record attendance—OmniScale will drive strategic communications for SC25 and SC26 […]
Compu Dynamics Launches HPC and AI Data Center Infrastructure Solutions
CHANTILLY, Va.– Compu Dynamics, a provider of data center construction and operations services, announced the launch of its AI and High-Performance Computing Services unit. The portfolio encompasses the spectrum of data center needs, from initial design and procurement to construction, operation, and ongoing maintenance, with a particular emphasis on cutting-edge liquid cooling technologies for AI and HPC environment. Compu Dynamics’ new […]