Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]
NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell
HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI
Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China ….
Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage
Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….
Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Cooling Agreement for 11GW Energy Grid in West Texas
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 1, 2025 — Fermi America (Nasdaq: FRMI), in partnership with the Texas Tech University System, today announced it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with MVM EGI Zrt., a hybrid dry–wet cooling company, to develop a cooling system for Fermi’s 11-gigawatt private energy grid campus. Under the non-binding MOU, Fermi America […]
Supermicro Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA
SAN JOSE and WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2025 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), an AI/ML, HPC, cloud, storage and 5G/Edge company, is showcasing its advanced AI infrastructure solutions at NVIDIA GTC in Washington, D.C. this week, highlighting systems tailored for federal customers. Supermicro announced its plans to deliver NVIDIA AI platforms, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL144 and […]
Accelerating Breakthroughs in Higher Education & Research with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ….
HPC News Bytes 20251027: Quantum Advantage and Government Investments, an HPC Systems Startup Delivers Update
Quantum computing has very much been in the news of late, along with an interesting high-precision HPC architecture from an Israeli startup. Here’s a not-so-fast (11:12) run-through of recent ….
NextSilicon Says Maverick-2 Chip Delivers up to 10x Boost at Half the Power
The intriguing startup NextSilicon, which has generated attention in HPC and other advanced computing markets since its founding in 2017, today disclosed architecture and performance ….
Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics
AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….
@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest ….











